HR 1238
116th Congress
House
Agriculture and Food
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Agricultural trade
Tariffs
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to treat certain planted soybean crops as harvested commodity crops under the Market Facilitation Program.
Introduced: February 14, 2019
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 7, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
Feb 14, 2019
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Feb 14, 2019
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture to treat a soybean crop as an eligible crop for payments under the Market Facilitation Program (MFP) if market conditions have discouraged or prevented a producer of a soybean crop from harvesting the crop or entering the crop into the stream of commerce.
(The MFP provides payments to producers with commodities that have been significantly impacted by actions of foreign governments resulting in the loss of traditional exports.)
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
Committees of jurisdiction
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