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HR 2571 106th Congress House Agriculture and Food Agricultural credit Agricultural price supports Agricultural prices Agricultural subsidies Agricultural surpluses Child nutrition Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Families Farm production quotas Finance and Financial Sector Food relief Food stamps Government lending Marketing of farm produce Minorities Native Americans Nutrition and the aged

To provide for a gradual reduction in the loan rate for peanuts, to repeal peanut quotas for the 2002 and subsequent crops, and to require the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase peanuts and peanut…

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To provide for a gradual reduction in the loan rate for peanuts, to repeal peanut quotas for the 2002 and subsequent crops, and to require the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase peanuts and peanut products for nutrition programs only at the world market price.

Introduced: July 20, 1999 See on congress.gov
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Aug 6, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families.
Jul 27, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management, Research and Specialty Crops.
Jul 20, 1999
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jul 20, 1999
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act to reduce quota peanut price support levels through crop year 2001 and make nonrecourse loans available to all peanut producers at 85 percent of estimated market value as of crop year 2002.

Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to eliminate peanut quotas as of crop year 2002.

Amends the National School Lunch Act to authorize the purchase at world market price of additional (excess of poundage quota) peanuts for the school lunch and other specified food and nutrition programs. States that such peanuts shall not be considered domestic edible use peanuts under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 or the Agricultural Market Transition Act.

What's happening now August 6, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 1 Republican 1
D
Pallone, Frank
New Jersey · Jul 20, 1999
Sanford, Mark
· Jul 20, 1999
 R
Smith, Christopher H.
New Jersey · Jul 20, 1999
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2571: To provide for a gradual reduction in the loan rate for peanuts, to repeal peanut quotas for the 2002 and subsequent crops, and to require the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase peanuts and peanut products for nutrition programs only at the world market price.. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-2571/
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"H.R. 2571: To provide for a gradual reduction in the loan rate for peanuts, to repeal peanut quotas for the 2002 and subsequent crops, and to require the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase peanuts and peanut products for nutrition programs only at the world market price.." 106th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-2571/.
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H.R. 2571, 106th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-2571/.
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[H.R. 2571: To provide for a gradual reduction in the loan rate for peanuts, to repeal peanut quotas for the 2002 and subsequent crops, and to require the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase peanuts and peanut products for nutrition programs only at the world market price.](https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-2571/)
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