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United States Specialty Crop Export Opportunities Act of 2007

Introduced: March 27, 2007 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 8 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 4, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
May 4, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
May 4, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
Apr 13, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
Apr 10, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Mar 28, 2007
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E654-655)
Mar 27, 2007
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Homeland Security, 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.
Mar 27, 2007
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

United States Specialty Crop Export Opportunities Act of 2007 - Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to regulate plants, plant products, biological control organisms, and noxious weeds for export purposes.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) coordinate fruit and vegetable market analyses with the private sector and the Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service; and (2) make publicly available on an Internet website the status of all export petitions and an explanation of the sanitary or phytosanitary issues associated with each pending export petition, and information on the import requirements of foreign countries for fruits and vegetables.

Amends the Homeland Security Act to repeal the transfer of agricultural import and entry inspection functions from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service the international agricultural inspection program to carry out import and entry agricultural inspections; (2) a federal-state agricultural inspection communications system; (3) the International Trade Inspection Advisory Committee; and (4) a special export credit guarantee program.

Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to extend: (1) the promotion of agricultural exports to emerging markets program; and (2) the E. (Kika) de la Garza Agricultural Fellowship program.

What's happening now May 4, 2007

Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.

 Committees of jurisdiction 8
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1