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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 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Passed House
Passed Senate
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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
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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 March 7, 2019

Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 5
All 5 Republican 3
Graves, Garret
· Apr 10, 2019
Yoho, Ted
· Mar 4, 2019
 R
Estes, Ron
Kansas · Feb 14, 2019
 R
Guest, Michael
Mississippi · Feb 14, 2019
 R
Kelly, Trent
Mississippi · Feb 14, 2019
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1238: To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to treat certain planted soybean crops as harvested commodity crops under the Market Facilitation Program.. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-1238/
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"H.R. 1238: To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to treat certain planted soybean crops as harvested commodity crops under the Market Facilitation Program.." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-1238/.
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H.R. 1238, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-1238/.
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