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HR 3705 116th Congress House Agriculture and Food Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit Agricultural trade Alternative and renewable resources Food industry and services Motor fuels Tariffs

SWEET Act

Introduced: July 11, 2019 Introduced by: Perry, Scott Republican · Pennsylvania See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Aug 9, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
Jul 11, 2019
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Jul 11, 2019
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Saving Workers by Eliminating Economic Tampering Act or the SWEET Act

This bill eliminates certain Department of Agriculture (USDA) sugar subsidy programs.

Specifically, the bill eliminates (1) the price support loan program available to processors of domestically grown sugarcane and sugar beets, (2) the sugar marketing allotments and tariff-rate quotas that limit the quantities of domestically produced sugar that processors may sell and the sugar that may be imported under lower tariff rates, and (3) the feedstock flexibility program for bioenergy producers which operates to avoid loan forfeitures to the USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation by requiring USDA to purchase surplus sugar from domestic processors for resale to bioenergy producers.

What's happening now August 9, 2019

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

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Republican 4