S 1118
106th Congress
Senate
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
A bill 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 to provide for the gradual elimination of the program.
Introduced: May 25, 1999
Introduced by:
Schumer, Charles E.
Democratic
· New York
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Became law
May 25, 1999
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
May 25, 1999
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5959-5960)
May 25, 1999
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
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
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Committees of jurisdiction
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