HR 2772
106th Congress
House
Agriculture and Food
Administrative procedure
Agricultural credit
Agricultural subsidies
Department of Agriculture
Farm produce
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Grazing
Law
Marketing of farm produce
To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to provide a variant of loan deficiency payments to producers who are otherwise eligible for such payments, but who elect to use acreage planted to the eligible commodity for the grazing of livestock.
Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Aug 20, 1999
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Aug 20, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Resource Conservation and Credit.
Aug 5, 1999
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Aug 5, 1999
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make specified payments in lieu of loan deficiency payments to a producer who uses commodity acreage to graze livestock if the producer forgoes any other commodity harvesting on such acreage during the crop year.
What's happening now
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Committees of jurisdiction
2
Cosponsors
1