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HR 651 109th Congress House Taxation Agricultural credit Agriculture and Food Economics and Public Finance Farm lands Farmers Farms Federally-guaranteed loans Finance and Financial Sector Income tax Indexing (Economic policy) Tax-exempt securities

Agricultural Bond Improvement Act of 2005

Introduced: February 8, 2005 See on congress.gov
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Feb 8, 2005
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Feb 8, 2005
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Agricultural Bond Improvement Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exempt agricultural bonds from the volume cap applicable to private activity bonds; (2) permit a Federal guarantee of an agricultural bond under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act without a loss of tax exemption; (3) increase the loan limit on agricultural bonds to $450,000 and index such amount for inflation after 2005; and (4) eliminate the dollar limitation in the definition of substantial farmland used for agricultural bonds.

What's happening now February 8, 2005

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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Graves, Sam
Missouri · Feb 10, 2005
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 651: Agricultural Bond Improvement Act of 2005. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-651/
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"H.R. 651: Agricultural Bond Improvement Act of 2005." 109th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-651/.
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H.R. 651, 109th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-651/.
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