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HR 1850 106th Congress House Agriculture and Food Acreage allotments Agricultural credit Agricultural price supports Agricultural prices Agricultural subsidies Agriculture in foreign trade Commerce Economics and Public Finance Farm production quotas Finance and Financial Sector Foreign Trade and International Finance Government lending Marketing of farm produce Sugar Sugar trade

Sugar Program Reform Act

Introduced: May 18, 1999 See on congress.gov
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May 25, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management, Research and Specialty Crops.
May 18, 1999
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
May 18, 1999
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E991)
May 18, 1999
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Sugar Program Reform Act - 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; 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 after the 1998- 1999 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.

What's happening now May 25, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management, Research and Specialty Crops.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • S 1118 Procedurally related A bill to amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to convert the price support program for sugarcane and sugar bee…
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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Democratic 2 Republican 1
D
Baldwin, Tammy
Wisconsin · Jan 31, 2000
 D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Jul 19, 1999
 R
Smith, Christopher H.
New Jersey · Jun 16, 1999
Sanford, Mark
· May 18, 1999
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1850: Sugar Program Reform Act. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-1850/
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"H.R. 1850: Sugar Program Reform Act." 106th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-1850/.
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H.R. 1850, 106th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-1850/.
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