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HR 2081 107th Congress House

Sugar Program Reform Act

Official title: 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 g… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: 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 gradually reduce the level of price support available for sugarcane and sugar beets, and to eliminate of the program after the 2004 crops of sugarcane and sugar beets.

Introduced: June 6, 2001 See on congress.gov
Agriculture and Food Acreage allotmentsAgricultural creditAgricultural price supportsAgricultural prices
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Agricultural subsidiesAgriculture in foreign tradeCommerceEconomics and Public FinanceFarm production quotasFinance and Financial SectorForeign Trade and International FinanceGovernment lendingMarketing of farm produceSugarSugar trade
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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
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 Latest action June 13, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.

 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 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.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 8
All 8 Democratic 3 Republican 1
D
Baldwin, Tammy
Wisconsin · Jun 6, 2001
CRANE, PHILIP
· Jun 6, 2001
 D
Davis, Danny K.
Illinois · Jun 6, 2001
GOSS, PORTER
· Jun 6, 2001
LIPINSKI, WILLIAM
· Jun 6, 2001
 D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Jun 6, 2001
 R
Smith, Christopher H.
New Jersey · Jun 6, 2001
Toomey, Patrick
· Jun 6, 2001
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2081: Sugar Program Reform Act. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-2081/
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"H.R. 2081: Sugar Program Reform Act." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-2081/.
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H.R. 2081, 107th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-2081/.
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