HR 2081
107th 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: June 6, 2001
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 13, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.
Jun 6, 2001
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Jun 6, 2001
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
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 2004; (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 to direct the President, beginning after the 2000-2001 quota year, 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
Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.
Committees of jurisdiction
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