HR 2164
107th 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 amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to gradually reduce the loan rate for peanuts, to repeal peanut quotas for the 2004 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, and for other purposes.
Introduced: June 13, 2001
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4 steps
Introduced
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Became law
Aug 20, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Jun 18, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.
Jun 13, 2001
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.
Jun 13, 2001
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act to: (1) reduce quota peanut price support levels through crop year 2003; (2) extend marketing assessment services through 2003; and (3) make nonrecourse loans available to all peanut producers at 85 percent of estimated market value as of crop year 2004.
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to eliminate peanut quotas as of crop year 2004.
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
Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.