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HR 1387 105th Congress House

To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to convert the price support program for sugarcane and sugar beets into a system of solely recourse loans and to provide for the gradual elimination of…

Official title: To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to convert the price support program for sugarcane and sugar beets into a system of solely recourse loans and t… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to convert the price support program for sugarcane and sugar beets into a system of solely recourse loans and to provide for the gradual elimination of the program.

Introduced: April 17, 1997 See on congress.gov
Agriculture and Food Acreage allotmentsAgricultural creditAgricultural price supportsAgricultural prices
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Agriculture in foreign tradeCommerceEconomics and Public FinanceFarm production quotasFinance and Financial SectorForeign Trade and International FinanceGovernment lendingMarketing of farm produceSugarSugar trade
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 28, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops.
Apr 17, 1997
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Apr 17, 1997
Introduced in House
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 Latest action April 28, 1997

Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act with respect to the sugar program to: (1) reduce sugarcane loan rates through crop year 2002; (2) revise the sugar beet loan rate; (3) eliminate nonrecourse loans after FY 1997; and (4) eliminate sugar price supports after crop year 2002.

Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal sugar and crystalline fructose marketing quota and allotment provisions.

Amends the Food Security Act of 1985, beginning with the 1996-1997 quota year, to direct the President to use all available authority to ensure that U.S. market raw sugar shall be available at not more than the higher of the world sugar price or the U.S. loan rate.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 10
All 10 Democratic 5 Republican 1
D
Hoyer, Steny H.
Maryland · Jun 17, 1997
GOSS, PORTER
· Apr 17, 1997
LIPINSKI, WILLIAM
· Apr 17, 1997
 D
Markey, Edward J.
Massachusetts · Apr 17, 1997
 D
McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Apr 17, 1997
 D
Nadler, Jerrold
New York · Apr 17, 1997
QUINN, JACK
· Apr 17, 1997
Sanford, Mark
· Apr 17, 1997
 D
Schumer, Charles E.
New York · Apr 17, 1997
 R
Smith, Christopher H.
New Jersey · Apr 17, 1997
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1387: To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to convert the price support program for sugarcane and sugar beets into a system of solely recourse loans and to provide for the gradual elimination of the program.. 105th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-1387/
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"H.R. 1387: To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to convert the price support program for sugarcane and sugar beets into a system of solely recourse loans and to provide for the gradual elimination of the program.." 105th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-1387/.
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H.R. 1387, 105th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-1387/.
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[H.R. 1387: To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to convert the price support program for sugarcane and sugar beets into a system of solely recourse loans and to provide for the gradual elimination of the program.](https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-1387/)
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