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| 109-s-4093 | 109 | s | 4093 | A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend a suspension of limitation on the period for which certain borrowers are eligible for guaranteed assistance. | Agriculture and Food | 2006-12-06 | 2006-12-22 | Became Public Law No: 109-467. | Senate | Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] | IA | D | H000206 | 16 | (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend through September 30, 2007, a suspension of limitation on the period for which certain borrowers are eligible for guaranteed assistance under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act. | 2023-01-31T21:13:25Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/4093 |
| 109-s-3976 | 109 | s | 3976 | Pigford Claims Remedy Act of 2006 | Agriculture and Food | 2006-09-28 | 2006-09-28 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Allen, George [R-VA] | VA | R | A000121 | 1 | Pigford Claims Remedy Act of 2006 - States that any Pigford claimant (relating to a racial discrimination action against the Department of Agriculture) who has not previously obtained a determination on the merits of a Pigford claim may, in a civil action, obtain that determination. States that it is Congress' intent that this Act be liberally construed so as to effectuate its remedial purpose of giving a full determination on the merits for each denied Pigford claim. Defines: (1) "Pigford claimant" as an individual who previously submitted a late-filing request under the consent decree in the case of Pigford v. Glickman (1999); and (2) "Pigford claim" as a discrimination complaint as defined and documented by such consent decree. | 2023-01-12T17:52:03Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/3976 |
| 109-s-3991 | 109 | s | 3991 | Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006 | Agriculture and Food | 2006-09-28 | 2006-09-29 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10565, S10568, S10568-10569, S10569) | Senate | Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND] | ND | D | C000705 | 26 | Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance for: (1) crop disaster assistance for qualifying quantity or quality losses for the 2005 or 2006 crop due to weather or related conditions (including disease, insects, and delayed harvest; (2) livestock assistance for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses; (3) livestock indemnity payments for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses (including wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and anthrax); (4) ewe lamb replacement and retention; (5) sugar beet disaster assistance for crop year 2005; (6) sugarcane growers in Hawaii through a payment to an agricultural transportation cooperative in Hawaii; (7) flooded crop and grazing land in the Devils Lake basin, the McHugh, Lake Laretta, and Rose Lake closed drainage areas, North Dakota; and (8) bovine tuberculosis indemnification. Directs the Secretary to make grants to state agriculture departments or comparable agencies in qualified states for direct economic loss payments to eligible small businesses. Directs the Secretary to use specified funds to carry out emergency measures under: (1) the emergency watershed protection program; (2) the emergency conservation program, including wildfire recovery efforts; and (3) the environmental quality incentives program, including wildfire recovery efforts. Directs the Secretary to use specified funds to hire additional state and county Farm Service Agency personnel to expedite the delivery of agricultural disaster and economic assistance. | 2023-01-12T17:52:02Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/3991 |
| 109-s-3862 | 109 | s | 3862 | A bill to amend the Animal Health Protection Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing or carrying out a National Animal Identification System or similar requirement, to prohibit the use of Federal funds to carry out such a requirement, and to require the Secretary to protect information obtained as part of any voluntary animal identification system. | Agriculture and Food | 2006-09-07 | 2006-09-07 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO] | MO | R | T000024 | 2 | Amends the Animal Health Protection Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing or carrying out (and prohibits use of federal funds to implement or carry out) a National Animal Identification System or similar requirement that mandates the participation of livestock owners. Sets forth requirements governing disclosure of information obtained through a voluntary animal identification system established by the Secretary to identify and trace animals. | 2023-01-12T17:52:07Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/3862 |
| 109-s-3855 | 109 | s | 3855 | Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006 | Agriculture and Food | 2006-09-06 | 2006-09-29 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10565) | Senate | Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND] | ND | D | C000705 | 27 | Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance for: (1) crop disaster assistance for qualifying quantity or quality losses for the 2005 or 2006 crop due to weather or related conditions (including disease, insects, and delayed harvest; (2) livestock assistance for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses; (3) livestock indemnity payments for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses (including wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and anthrax); (4) ewe lamb replacement and retention; (5) sugar beet disaster assistance for crop year 2005; (6) sugarcane growers in Hawaii through a payment to an agricultural transportation cooperative in Hawaii; (7) flooded crop and grazing land in the Devils Lake basin, the McHugh, Lake Laretta, and Rose Lake closed drainage areas, North Dakota; and (8) bovine tuberculosis indemnification. Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance for: (1) state grants to promote agriculture; and (2) grants for value of production. Requires a recipient state to give priority for livestock and specialty crops. Directs the Secretary to make supplemental economic loss payments to: (1) producers on a farm who received a crop year 2005 direct payment; and (2) dairy producers eligible to receive a 2005 national dairy market loss payment. Directs the Secretary to make grants to state agriculture departments or comparable agencies in qualified states for direct economic loss payments to eligible small businesses. Directs the Secretary to use specified funds to: (1) carry out emergency measures under the emergency watershed protection and emergency conservation programs; and (2) hire additional state and county Farm Service Agency personnel to expedite the delivery of agricultural disaster and economic assistance. | 2023-01-12T17:52:07Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/3855 |
| 109-s-3860 | 109 | s | 3860 | Emergency Wildfire and Farm Relief Act of 2006 | Agriculture and Food | 2006-09-06 | 2006-09-06 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT] | MT | R | B001126 | 0 | Emergency Wildfire and Farm Relief Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use specified additional funds for emergency measures under: (1) the emergency conservation program, with a set-aside for wildfire control in Montana; (2) the environmental quality incentives program, with a set-aside for wildfire control in Montana; and (3) the livestock assistance grant program, with eligibility for counties adversely impacted by wildfires. Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance for: (1) crop disaster assistance for qualifying quantity or quality losses for the 2005 or 2006 crop due to weather or related conditions (including disease, insects, and delayed harvest; (2) livestock assistance for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses; (3) livestock indemnity payments for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses (including wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and anthrax); (4) ewe lamb replacement and retention; (5) sugar beet disaster assistance for crop year 2005; and (6) bovine tuberculosis indemnification. Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance for: (1) state grants to promote agriculture; and (2) grants for value of production. Requires a recipient state to give priority for livestock and specialty crops. Directs the Secretary to make supplemental economic loss payments to: (1) producers on a farm who received a crop year 2005 direct payment; and (2) dairy producers eligible to receive a 2005 national dairy market loss payment. Directs the Secretary to use specified funds to: (1) carry out emergency measures under the emergency watershed protection program; and (2) hire additional state and county Farm Service Agency personnel to expedite the delivery of agricultural disaster and economic assistance. | 2023-01-12T17:52:07Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/3860 |
| 109-s-3761 | 109 | s | 3761 | Senior Nutrition Act of 2006 | Agriculture and Food | 2006-07-28 | 2006-07-28 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] | MI | D | S000770 | 3 | Senior Nutrition Act of 2006 - Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to make a person who is at least 60 years old eligible for the commodity supplemental food program if such person: (1) is eligible for the food stamp program; or (2) has a household income that is not more than 185 percent of federal poverty income guidelines. Authorizes appropriations to carry out such program and prohibits using such funds to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for commodities donated to such program. | 2023-01-12T17:52:26Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/3761 |
| 109-s-3746 | 109 | s | 3746 | National Ag Science Center Act of 2006 | Agriculture and Food | 2006-07-27 | 2006-07-27 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] | CA | D | B000711 | 1 | National Ag Science Center Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to provide to the entity known as "Ag Science Center, Inc.," in Stanislaus County, California, grants to pay not more than a total of 33% of the total costs of establishing the National Ag Science Center. | 2023-01-12T17:52:27Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/3746 |
| 109-s-3753 | 109 | s | 3753 | Agriculture Fire Assistance Act of 2006 | Agriculture and Food | 2006-07-27 | 2006-07-27 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT] | MT | D | B000243 | 0 | Agriculture Fire Assistance Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide assistance: (1) to agricultural producers who incurred fire-caused losses in 2006 for livestock indemnity payments and feed assistance; (2) for the emergency conservation and watershed protection programs, with priority given to producers who incurred fire-caused losses in 2006; and (3) for environmental quality incentive payments to producers who incurred fire-caused losses in 2006. | 2023-01-12T17:52:27Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/3753 |
| 109-s-3720 | 109 | s | 3720 | Farm and Ranch Land Protection Flexibility Act of 2006 | Agriculture and Food | 2006-07-25 | 2006-07-25 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA] | PA | R | S000059 | 0 | Farm and Ranch Land Protection Flexibility Act of 2006 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to revise the farmland protection program. Includes as eligible program land woodlots, wooded corners, and forested riparian areas that comprise up to 50% of the offered acreage. Defines: (1) "permanent conservation easement"; and (2) "qualified state or local entity." Gives priority to farm and ranchland: (1) with prime, unique, or other productive soils at risk of nonagricultural development; (2) that will stay in production agriculture; (3) in rural communities that face intense conversion pressure; (4) in areas that have locally-led land-use planning and zoning strategies; and (5) in watersheds that would benefit most from the protection of farm and ranch resources. Provides for: (1) grants to eligible state or local entities to purchase permanent conservation easements; and (2) grant agreements with eligible state or local entities to purchase conservation easements using a combination of their own funds and grant funds. Sets forth matching grant and performance standard provisions. | 2023-01-12T17:52:28Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/3720 |
| 109-s-3601 | 109 | s | 3601 | Meat and Poultry Products Traceability and Safety Act of 2006 | Agriculture and Food | 2006-06-29 | 2006-06-29 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] | NY | D | S000148 | 0 | Meat and Poultry Products Traceability and Safety Act of 2006 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to direct that amenable species presented for slaughter for human consumption, and the carcasses or parts of carcasses and the meat and food products of those animals, shipped in interstate commerce be identified in a manner that enables the Secretary of Agriculture to trace: (1) each animal or group of animals to any location at which the animal was held at any time before slaughter; and (2) each carcass or part of a carcass and food product forward from slaughter through processing and distribution to the ultimate consumer. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) prohibit or restrict entry to a slaughtering establishment of an animal not so identified; and (2) require that each person, firm, or corporation required to identify livestock maintain accurate records. Directs the Secretary to establish a traceability system for all stages of production, processing, and distribution of meat and meat food products and poultry and poultry food products. | 2023-01-13T04:50:36Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/3601 |
| 109-s-3615 | 109 | s | 3615 | SAFER Meat, Poultry, and Food Act of 2006 | Agriculture and Food | 2006-06-29 | 2006-06-29 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] | IA | D | H000206 | 1 | Safe and Fair Enforcement and Recall for Meat, Poultry and Food Act of 2006 or SAFER Meat, Poultry and Food Act of 2006 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to: (1) require a person, other than a household consumer, who has reason to believe meat, poultry, or food products to be adulterated or misbranded to so notify the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of Health and Human Services, as appropriate; (2) provide the Secretary of Agriculture with authority for voluntary and mandatory nondistribution and recall, withdrawal of inspectors from violating facilities, consumer and health official notification, and imposition of civil penalties; and (3) provide the Secretary of Health and Human Services with authority for voluntary and mandatory nondistribution and recall, consumer and health official notification, and imposition of civil penalties. | 2023-01-13T04:50:36Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/3615 |
| 109-s-3519 | 109 | s | 3519 | Agriculture Small Business Opportunity and Enhancement Act of 2006 | Agriculture and Food | 2006-06-15 | 2006-06-15 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 14 | Agriculture Small Business Opportunity and Enhancement Act of 2006 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to approve a qualifying State meat inspection program and allow the shipment in commerce of carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, and meat food products so inspected. Requires the Secretary to review approved plans annually. Prohibits from state inspection plan participation: (1) establishments that have more than 50 employees, except for those subject to state inspection as of January 1, 2007; and (2) federally inspected establishments after such date that have more than 50 employees. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into a cooperative agreement to establish the relationship between a state program and the Secretary; and (2) provide partial reimbursement for state costs to meet federal requirements. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) sampling; (2) noncompliance; (3) acceptance of interstate shipments of meat and meat food products; and (4) advisory committees. Directs the Secretary to temporarily suspend or take over a noncomplying state program (or an establishment). Makes similar amendments to the Poultry Products Inspection Act. Terminates the Secretary's authority to establish interstate meat and poultry inspection programs under this Act if approval and cooperative agreements have not been concluded by January 1, 2007. | 2023-01-13T04:50:38Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/3519 |
| 109-s-3484 | 109 | s | 3484 | Menu Education and Labeling Act | Agriculture and Food | 2006-06-08 | 2006-06-08 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. | Senate | Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] | IA | D | H000206 | 1 | Menu Education and Labeling Act or the MEAL Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to require restaurants that are a part of a chain with 20 or more locations doing business under the same trade name to disclose: (1) in a statement adjacent to each menu item, the number of calories, grams of saturated fat plus trans fat, and milligrams of sodium in a standard food serving; (2) other information designed to enable the public to understand the significance of the nutrition information provided in the context of a total daily diet; (3) that such information shall be provided in writing upon request; and (4) in a statement adjacent to the name of the food on a menu board, the number of calories in a serving of the food. Exempts condiments, items placed on a table or counter for general use, daily specials, temporary menu items, and irregular menu items from these requirements. Requires restaurants that sell self-serve food, such as through salad bars or buffet lines, to place a sign that lists the number of calories per standard serving adjacent to each food offered. Permits retail food establishments to voluntarily provide, and states to require, additional nutritional information. Requires vending machine operators to provide a conspicuous sign disclosing the number of calories in each item of food offered. | 2023-01-13T04:50:39Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/3484 |
| 109-s-3128 | 109 | s | 3128 | National Uniformity for Food Act of 2006 | Agriculture and Food | 2006-05-25 | 2006-07-27 | Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-741. | Senate | Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC] | NC | R | B001135 | 21 | National Uniformity for Food Act of 2006 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to prohibit any state or political subdivision from establishing or continuing in effect for any food in interstate commerce any requirement that is not identical to specified FFDCA provisions (that would result in materially different requirements), including those related to adulterated foods, unsafe food additives, new animal drugs, and warnings concerning food safety. Allows state enforcement of identical provisions unless the Secretary of Health and Human Services has determined that such state provisions should not be enforced. Allows a state to petition for an exemption or to establish a national standard regarding any requirement under FFDCA or the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act relating to food regulation. Allows the Secretary to provide such an exemption if the requirement: (1) protects an important public interest that would otherwise be unprotected; (2) would not cause any food to be in violation of any federal law; and (3) would not unduly burden interstate commerce. Allows a state to establish a requirement that would otherwise violate FFDCA provisions relating to national uniform nutrition labeling or this Act if the requirement is needed to address an imminent hazard to health that is likely to result in serious adverse health consequences and if other requirements are met. Declares that this Act does not preempt certain state and local laws relating to labeling or a consumer advisory relating to food sanitation imposed on a food establishment or recommended by the Secretary. Declares that the Act takes effect only if the Secretary certifies to Congress that implementation will pose no additional risk to the public health or safety from terrorist acts relating to the food supply. | 2023-01-13T04:48:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/3128 |
| 109-s-2782 | 109 | s | 2782 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture Act of 2006 | Agriculture and Food | 2006-05-10 | 2006-05-10 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO] | MO | R | T000024 | 3 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture Act of 2006 - Establishes within the Department of Agriculture the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which shall be an agency composed of a Director (who shall be a scientist) and a Standing Council of Advisors. Authorizes the Director to establish standing committees. Requires the Director to establish: (1) an Office of Advanced Science and Application which shall monitor national needs and advances in research to identify problems for which solutions are realistically achievable through research; (2) an Office of Scientific Assessment and Liaison which shall monitor programs and expenditures; (3) an Office of Scientific Personnel which shall assess the number of, and need for additional, agricultural scientists in the United States. Directs the Institute to provide grants to support and promote the highest quality of fundamental agricultural research, including grants to fund research proposals submitted by: (1) individual scientists; (2) research centers composed of a single institution or multiple institutions; and (3) other individuals and entities from the private and public sectors, including Department and other federal researchers. | 2023-01-13T04:48:19Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/2782 |
| 109-s-2696 | 109 | s | 2696 | A bill to extend all of the authorizations of appropriations and direct spending programs under the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 until after implementing legislation for the Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization negotiations is enacted into law, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 2006-05-02 | 2006-05-02 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO] | MO | R | T000024 | 7 | Extends, with specified exceptions, commodity programs and other direct spending programs under the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 until implementing legislation for the Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations is enacted into law. | 2023-01-13T04:48:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/2696 |
| 109-s-2487 | 109 | s | 2487 | Specialty Crops Competition Act of 2006 | Agriculture and Food | 2006-03-31 | 2006-03-31 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID] | ID | R | C000858 | 10 | Specialty Crops Competition Act of 2006 - Defines "specialty crop" as each U.S. agricultural crop other than wheat, feed grains, oilseeds, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, dry peas, lentils, chickpeas, and tobacco. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to provide for marketing order specialty crop food safety programs. Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to: (1) increase assistance for the tree assistance program; (2) provide for increased fruit, vegetable, and specialty crop purchases; and (3) increase and extend specialty crop technical assistance. Obligates funds for fruit and vegetable marketing news activities. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to obligate funds for specialty crop operating loans. Provides for: (1) the study of the extent to which U.S. specialty crops have or have not benefited from any reductions of foreign trade barriers; and (2) a foreign market access strategy plan based on such study. Establishes a division in the Department of Agriculture to process petitions for reducing sanitary and phytosanitary export barriers and an office to develop and protect intellectual property rights in plants and plant materials. Amends Federal patent law to define "essentially derived plant." Provides for: (1) a national specialty crops development initiative grants program; (2) research on mechanized harvesting and new production and processing methods; and (3) a national clean plant network. Establishes the Invasive Pest and Disease Response Fund in the Treasury to support emergency eradication and research activities. Provides for independent scientific advice and peer review with regard to specialty crop import and export requests. Authorizes food safety initiatives. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to remove the income limitation from the environmental quality incentives program. Addresses the development of voluntary sustainable practices guidelines for producers and processors of specialty crops. | 2023-01-13T04:48:48Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/2487 |
| 109-s-2438 | 109 | s | 2438 | Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2006 | Agriculture and Food | 2006-03-16 | 2006-03-16 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND] | ND | D | C000705 | 27 | Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency financial assistance to eligible agricultural producers (other than sugar cane and sugar beet producers) who have incurred qualifying 2005 crop losses due to weather or related conditions (including crop disease, insects, and delayed harvest). Directs the Secretary to provide: (1) payments through the 2002 livestock compensation program to livestock producers who have incurred 2005 losses in emergency-designated counties; (2) livestock indemnity payments to producers who have incurred 2005 livestock disaster losses, including losses due to hurricanes, floods, and anthrax; (3) indemnity payments to poultry producers in hurricane-affected counties; (4) compensation for certain owners of flooded crop and grazing land in North Dakota; (5) sugarcane and sugar beet disaster assistance for qualifying producers and first processors in Louisiana counties designated as disaster areas due to Hurricanes Katrina or Rita, or to qualifying producers and first processors in Florida for 2005 losses due to hurricanes, floods, rain, or storms; (6) assistance to specialty and nursery crop producers in hurricane-affected counties; (7) assistance to dairy producers in hurricane-affected counties; (8) assistance to producers and first handlers of cottonseed; (9) grants for agricultural promotion; (10) supplemental economic loss payments under a specified rate to producers who received crop year 2005 commodity assistance; and (11) assistance to tree producers (including Christmas, potted, ornamental, and nursery trees, shrubs, and vines) in hurricane-affected counties. Authorizes the Secretary to provide: (1) financial and technical assistance to remove debris and animal carcasses that could adversely affect health and safety on non-federal land in hurricane-affected counties; and (2) immunizations to Department of Agriculture employees involved in direct recovery work in hurricane-affected counties. Directs the Secretar… | 2023-01-13T04:48:49Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/2438 |
| 109-s-2307 | 109 | s | 2307 | Competitive and Fair Agricultural Markets Act of 2006 | Agriculture and Food | 2006-02-16 | 2006-02-16 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] | IA | D | H000206 | 3 | Competitive and Fair Agricultural Markets Act of 2006 - Amends the Agricultural Fair Practices Act of 1967 to define specified terms. Establishes within the Department of Agriculture the Office of Special Counsel for Competition Matters, which shall be headed by a Special Counsel for Competition Matters. States that the Office shall: (1) investigate and prosecute violations of this Act, the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, and any other Act that the Secretary of Agriculture determines appropriate; (2) serve as a liaison between the Department and the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with respect to competition and trade practices in the food and agricultural sector; and (3) maintain a staff of attorneys and other appropriate professionals. Requires a dealer, handler, contractor, processor, or commission merchant with annual sales in excess of $100 million to file an annual corporate structure report with the Secretary. Prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices: (1) in agricultural commerce; (2) concerning producer associations; and (3) in agricultural contracts. Sets forth agricultural and production contract and enforcement provisions. Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to eliminate the "slaughter" requirement from the definitions of "poultry grower," "poultry growing arrangement," and "live poultry dealer." Extends: (1) administrative enforcement authority to live poultry dealers; and (2) temporary injunction or restraining order authority to instances of poultry care. States that: (1) it shall be an unlawful practice to engage in an unfair or discriminatory practice or device regardless of whether the practice or device causes a competitive injury or otherwise adversely effects competition; and (2) a person affected by specified unfair practices shall not be required to prove predatory intent, competitive injury, or likelihood of injury. | 2023-01-13T04:49:03Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/2307 |
| 109-s-2120 | 109 | s | 2120 | Milk Regulatory Equity Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-12-16 | 2006-04-11 | Became Public Law No: 109-215. | Senate | Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ] | AZ | R | K000352 | 2 | (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Milk Regulatory Equity Act of 2005 - Amends the the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to subject specified Class I milk handlers (including producer-handlers) to federal milk marketing order minimum and uniform price requirements applicable to the county in which the plant of the handler is located, at federal order class prices, if the handler has packaged fluid milk product route dispositions, or sales of packaged fluid milk products to other plants, in a marketing area located in a state that requires handlers to pay minimum prices for raw milk purchases. Exempts from such provision: (1) a handler operating a nonpool plant; (2) a producer-handler for any month during which packaged fluid milk route dispositions and sales to other plants are less than three million pounds of milk; or (3) specified handlers whose fluid milk products are disposed of as route dispositions or transfers, or whose dispositions or transfers are in states requiring minimum prices for raw milk purchases. Subjects a Class I milk handler in the Arizona-Las Vegas marketing area (Order 131) to minimum milk price requirements for any month in which the handler distributes in such area at least three million pounds of Class I products from his or her own production. States that minimum milk price and exemption provisions under this Act shall not be construed as affecting, expanding, or contracting the treatment of producer-handlers except as provided for by such provisions. Excludes Nevada from federal milk marketing orders. | 2023-01-31T21:12:39Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/2120 |
| 109-s-2085 | 109 | s | 2085 | A bill to provide a supplemental payment to assist agricultural producers in mitigating increasing input costs, including energy and fertilizer costs. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-12-13 | 2005-12-13 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT] | MT | D | B000243 | 1 | Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make a supplemental payment (equal to the direct payment that the producer received for a 2005 crop) to assist agricultural producers in mitigating increasing input costs, including energy and fertilizer costs. | 2023-01-13T04:49:19Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/2085 |
| 109-s-2038 | 109 | s | 2038 | A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to restore the original deadline for mandatory country of origin. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-11-17 | 2005-11-17 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT] | MT | R | B001126 | 13 | Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to change the country of origin labeling implementation date to September 30, 2006. | 2023-01-13T04:49:33Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/2038 |
| 109-s-2018 | 109 | s | 2018 | Truth in Quality Grading Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-11-16 | 2005-11-16 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD] | SD | D | J000177 | 2 | Truth in Quality Grading Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to define "beef," "lamb," "imported beef," "imported lamb," "United States beef," and "United States lamb." (Excludes from inclusion as "United States beef" or "United States lamb" beef or lamb produced from imported animals.) Deems misbranded imported beef or imported lamb that bears a label indicating a quality grade issued by the Secretary of Agriculture (thereby prohibiting the use of such labels on such imported products). | 2023-01-13T04:49:34Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/2018 |
| 109-s-2009 | 109 | s | 2009 | Agriculture Hurricane Recovery Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-11-15 | 2005-11-15 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12844-12847) | Senate | Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL] | FL | R | M001162 | 1 | Agriculture Hurricane Recovery Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency assistance to farm or aquacultural producers (other than sugarcane producers) in a disaster county who incurred qualifying crop or quality losses with respect to the 2004, 2005, or 2006 crop due to damaging weather or related condition. Limits: (1) assistance to only one crop year; and (2) 2006 crop losses to only those losses caused by a 2005 hurricane or tropical storm. Directs the Secretary to make emergency financial assistance to: (1) commercial ornamental nursery and fernery producers in a disaster county for eligible inventory losses due to a 2005 hurricane; (2) tropical fruit producers in a disaster county who have suffered a qualifying loss due to a 2005 hurricane; (3) citrus and vegetable producers in a disaster county for losses caused by a 2005 hurricane or tropical storm; (4) certain sugar processors in Florida and Louisiana to compensate first processors and producers for crop and other losses related to 2005 hurricanes, tropical storms, excessive rains, and floods; (5) livestock producers in a disaster county for 2005 or 2006 losses (as elected by a producer); and (6) producers in a disaster county for specified infrastructure losses caused by a 2005 hurricane. Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to include nursery trees, Christmas trees, pecan trees, timber, and forest products in the tree assistance program. Waives specified cost-sharing requirements related to 2005 hurricane assistance. Amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to include nursery or fernery crop producers in the emergency conservation program. Provides assistance for farm producers in a disaster county for repairing structures, barns, storage facilities, poultry houses, beehives, greenhouses, and shade houses due to 2005 hurricane damage. Provides emergency grants for low-income migrant and seasonal farmworker assistance. Provides assistance for: (1) reseeding, rehabilitation, and restoration of oyster r… | 2023-01-13T04:49:34Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/2009 |
| 109-s-2002 | 109 | s | 2002 | BSE and Other Prior Disease Prevention and Public Health Protection Act | Agriculture and Food | 2005-11-14 | 2005-11-14 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12768-12770) | Senate | Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] | IL | D | D000563 | 2 | BSE and Other Prion Disease Prevention and Public Health Protection Act - Prohibits the importation of a covered article that: (1) if containing animal-derived material, does not state in English that the covered article contains animal-derived material and the name of the derivative animal, and if a ruminant, identifies the country of origin and states whether specified risk material from the ruminant is or may be part of the covered article; (2) if not containing animal-derived material, does not state in English that the covered article does not contain animal-derived material; and (3) contains animal-derived material from a ruminant that was in any country at a time at which there was a transmission risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Prohibits the introduction into interstate or foreign commerce of a covered article that contains: (1) specified risk material from a ruminant, or any material from a ruminant that was in any foreign country when there was a BSE transmission risk; or (2) any material from a ruminant exhibiting signs of a neurological disease. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) develop an enforcement plan for the regulatory ban of certain animal proteins in ruminant feed; (2) promulgate regulations prohibiting same-farm admixing of ruminant and nonruminant feed; (3) in conjunction with the National Prion Disease Pathology Research Center at Case Western Reserve University, expand survey efforts for prion diseases in humans; and (4) monitor animal feed and provide for the registration of certain animal feed businesses. Directs the Secretary to accelerate the establishment of a ruminant identification program capable of tracing, within 48 hours, the movements of disease-exposed animals from birth to slaughter. Directs the Secretaries to: (1) jointly establish a prion disease task force; and (2) develop appropriate compliance standards. Defines: (1) covered article; (2) prion disease; and (3) specified risk material. | 2023-01-13T04:49:34Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/2002 |
| 109-s-1885 | 109 | s | 1885 | Food Employment Empowerment and Development Program Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-10-18 | 2005-10-18 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11480-11481) | Senate | Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] | NJ | D | L000123 | 8 | Food Employment Empowerment and Development Program Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a food employment empowerment and development program of grants to eligible public agencies and private nonprofit institutions to encourage the use of community resources to combat hunger and the root causes of hunger by creating opportunity through food recovery and job training. | 2023-01-13T04:49:48Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1885 |
| 109-s-1877 | 109 | s | 1877 | A bill to prohibit the closure or relocation of certain county offices of the Farm Service Agency. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-10-17 | 2005-10-17 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT] | MT | D | B000243 | 0 | Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from closing or relocating a Farm Service Agency (FSA) county office in operation as of the date of enactment of this Act. | 2023-01-13T04:49:48Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1877 |
| 109-s-1804 | 109 | s | 1804 | Agricultural Assistance Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-09-30 | 2005-09-30 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR] | AR | D | L000035 | 2 | Agricultural Assistance Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make payments to producers on a farm eligible for 2005 direct payments for a covered commodity if: (1) the farm is located in a disaster county; or (2) the producers on the farm have incurred qualifying 2005 crop losses due to damaging weather or related conditions. Requires as a condition for such assistance that producers of: (1) a covered commodity and other insurable commodities for each of the next two crop years obtain at least federal crop catastrophic risk protection, and in the event of contract violation repay any assistance received; and (2) eligible noninsurable commodities for each of the next two crop or calendar years file the required paperwork, and pay the administrative fee by the state filing deadline, and in the event of contract violation repay any assistance received. Directs the Secretary to: (1) make emergency financial assistance to producers (crop, timber, fisheries, and livestock producers) who have incurred losses in a disaster-designated county; (2) use Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funds to carry out the 2002 Livestock Compensation Program for livestock producers in a disaster county, and for catfish producers; (3) transfer CCC funds for emergency surplus removal of agricultural commodities; (4) use CCC funds for assistance to fruit and vegetable producers, and for producers and first handlers of the 2005 cottonseed crop; and (5) make CCC commodity or payment assistance to certain loan-eligible first processors in a disaster-designated state to partially compensate producers and first processors for crop and other losses related to such natural disaster. | 2023-01-13T04:49:59Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1804 |
| 109-s-1779 | 109 | s | 1779 | Downed Animal Protection Act | Agriculture and Food | 2005-09-28 | 2005-09-28 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10597) | Senate | Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | A000069 | 26 | Downed Animal Protection Act - States that it is U.S. policy that all nonambulatory livestock in interstate and foreign commerce be immediately and humanely euthanized when such livestock become nonambulatory. Amends the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1958 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate regulations providing for the humane treatment, handling, and disposition of nonambulatory livestock by a covered entity, including a requirement that nonambulatory livestock be humanely euthanized. Requires an entity to: (1) humanely euthanize nonambulatory livestock (while not limiting the Secretary's ability to test nonambulatory livestock for disease, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy); and (2) not move nonambulatory livestock while such livestock is conscious, and ensure that such livestock remains unconscious until death. Prohibits an inspector at an establishment covered by the Federal Meat Inspection Act to pass nonambulatory livestock, carcass, or carcass parts through inspection. Requires an inspector or other employee at such establishment to label such material as "inspected and condemned." Defines "covered entity," "nonambulatory livestock," and "humanely euthanize." | 2023-01-13T04:49:59Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1779 |
| 109-s-1776 | 109 | s | 1776 | Permanent Emergency Agricultural Assistance Act | Agriculture and Food | 2005-09-27 | 2005-09-27 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN] | MN | D | D000596 | 0 | Permanent Emergency Agricultural Assistance Act - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, as of the 2005 crop year, to make emergency financial assistance to farm producers in a county located in a disaster-designated area who incur qualifying crop losses for an insurable crop due to damaging weather or related condition. | 2023-01-13T04:49:59Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1776 |
| 109-s-1752 | 109 | s | 1752 | A bill to amend the United States Grain Standards Act to reauthorize that Act. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-09-22 | 2005-09-30 | Became Public Law No: 109-83. | Senate | Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA] | GA | R | C000286 | 1 | (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Amends the United States Grain Standards Act to extend through FY2015: (1) authority for inspection, weighing, and supervisory fees, supervisory and administrative cost limitations, and the advisory committee; and (2) authorization of appropriations. | 2023-01-13T04:50:00Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1752 |
| 109-s-1742 | 109 | s | 1742 | A bill to amend the Food and Stamp Act of 1977 to exclude certain military housing allowances from the eligibility requirements for food stamps. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-09-21 | 2005-09-21 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS] | KS | R | R000307 | 0 | Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to exclude certain military housing allowances from food stamp eligibility requirements. | 2023-01-13T04:50:00Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1742 |
| 109-s-1692 | 109 | s | 1692 | Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-09-13 | 2005-09-22 | Star Print ordered on the bill. | Senate | Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND] | ND | D | C000705 | 8 | Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency financial assistance to eligible agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2005 crop losses due to weather or related conditions (including crop disease, insects, and delayed harvest). Directs the Secretary to provide: (1) payments to livestock producers who have incurred 2005 losses in an emergency-designated county, with set-asides for the American Indian livestock program; (2) livestock indemnity payments to producers who have incurred 2005 livestock disaster losses, including losses due to hurricanes, floods, and anthrax; (3) additional assistance for the emergency conservation and the emergency watershed protection programs; (4) compensation for certain owners of flooded crop and grazing land in North Dakota; and (5) supplemental loss payments under a specified rate to producers who received crop year 2005 commodity assistance. Amends the Small Business Act to: (1) provide drought disaster relief authority for farm-related and non-farm-related small businesses; and (2) authorize FY2005-FY2008 drought disaster loans for non-farm-related small businesses. Directs the Secretary to use Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funds for: (1) grants for agricultural promotion; (2) state-specified grants; and (3) additional grants for agricultural promotion, including food bank and nutrition program assistance, to Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and any other state that is housing evacuees or suffering damage from Hurricane Katrina or a related condition. Directs the Secretary to extend the settlement date of certain marketing assistance loans. Transfers Treasury funds to the Secretary of Commerce for assistance to New England fisheries suffering from the red tide outbreak. | 2023-01-13T04:50:01Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1692 |
| 109-s-1695 | 109 | s | 1695 | Hurricane Katrina Food Assistance Relief Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-09-13 | 2005-09-13 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] | IA | D | H000206 | 3 | Hurricane Katrina Food Assistance Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to provide expedited and increased food stamp benefits for households in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina (including areas that were disaster-designated as a result of Hurricane Katrina) or a related condition. Includes as an eligible household a household: (1) in an affected area; (2) in which a member worked in an affected area immediately prior to August 29, 2005; (3) that was displaced as a result of Hurricane Katrina or a related condition to other areas of the same or another state; (4) that the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) determines should receive relief; or (5) containing one or more individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina or a related condition. Treats lawful aliens in the same manner as refugees for food stamp household eligibility purposes. Authorizes the Secretary, under expedited procedures, to use specified food stamp program funds in FY2005-FY2006 for contracts with nonprofit organizations to support household and community efforts to address food assistance and related needs resulting from Hurricane Katrina or a related condition. Directs: (1) the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer to the Secretary specified amounts (which shall be available without further appropriation) for food assistance to eligible recipients, including special supplemental foods for pregnant women and infants (WIC) or for other individuals with special needs, infant formula, bottled water, and fruit juices; (2) the Secretary to use additional commodity distribution funds for food assistance to such recipients. Includes as an eligible recipient a person who: (1) is a victim of Hurricane Katrina or a related condition; (2) has been displaced by Hurricane Katrina or a related condition; or (3) is temporarily housing one or more individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina or a related condition. Authorizes the Secretary to modify assistance conditions for programs under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act… | 2023-01-13T04:50:01Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1695 |
| 109-s-1636 | 109 | s | 1636 | A bill to provide agricultural disaster assistance to producers on a farm that incurred qualifying crop or quality losses for the 2005 crop due to damaging weather or related condition, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-09-08 | 2005-09-08 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] | IL | D | D000563 | 3 | Amends the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Hurricane Disasters Assistance Act, 2005 to provide emergency crop disaster assistance to agricultural producers who incurred qualifying 2005 losses due to damaging weather or related conditions. (Eliminates the provision limiting 2005 crop assistance to only producers who suffered losses in 2004 from hurricanes or tropical storms in disaster-designated counties.) Provides emergency tree assistance to commercial orchardists and timber producers who incurred qualifying natural disaster-caused losses in 2005. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funds to carry out the 2002 livestock compensation program for eligible: (1) livestock producers who are in a disaster county; and (2) catfish producers. | 2023-01-13T04:50:03Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1636 |
| 109-s-1643 | 109 | s | 1643 | Hurricane Katrina Food Assistance Relief Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-09-08 | 2005-09-08 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9847-9848) | Senate | Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] | IA | D | H000206 | 1 | Hurricane Katrina Food Assistance Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to provide expedited and increased food stamp benefits for households in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina (including areas that were disaster-designated as a result of Hurricane Katrina) or a related condition. Includes as an eligible household a household: (1) in an affected area; (2) in which a member worked in an affected area immediately prior to August 29, 2005; (3) that was displaced as a result of Hurricane Katrina or a related condition to other areas of the same or another state; (4) that the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) determines should receive relief; or (5) containing one or more individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina or a related condition. Authorizes the Secretary, under expedited procedures, to use specified food stamp program funds in FY2005-FY2006 for contracts with nonprofit organizations to support household and community efforts to address food assistance and related needs resulting from Hurricane Katrina or a related condition. Directs: (1) the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer to the Secretary specified amounts (which shall be available without further appropriation) for food assistance to eligible recipients, including special supplemental foods for pregnant women and infants (WIC) or for other individuals with special needs, infant formula, bottled water, and fruit juices; (2) the Secretary to use additional commodity distribution funds for food assistance to such recipients. Includes as an eligible recipient a person who: (1) is a victim of Hurricane Katrina or a related condition; (2) has been displaced by Hurricane Katrina or a related condition; or (3) is temporarily housing one or more individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina or a related condition. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer to the Secretary additional WIC and commodity supplemental food program funds (which shall be available without further appropriation) for persons victimized or displaced by … | 2023-01-13T04:50:03Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1643 |
| 109-s-1613 | 109 | s | 1613 | A bill to amend the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 to extend the termination date for mandatory price reporting. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-09-06 | 2005-09-14 | Held at the desk. | Senate | Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] | IA | R | G000386 | 1 | (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Amends the Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 1999 to extend the termination date of such Act's mandatory beef and swine reporting and related authorities to September 30, 2006. | 2023-01-13T04:50:04Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1613 |
| 109-s-1555 | 109 | s | 1555 | A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to reform funding for the Seniors Farmers' Market Nutrition Program, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-07-29 | 2005-07-29 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9473) | Senate | Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] | WA | D | C000127 | 9 | Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 with respect to the senior farmers' market nutrition program to: (1) increase program funding; (2) expand the program to include locally produced farm products as deemed appropriate by the Secretary of Agriculture; and (3) permit up to ten percent of program funds to be used for administrative costs. | 2023-01-13T04:50:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1555 |
| 109-s-1556 | 109 | s | 1556 | Specialty Crop and Value-Added Agriculture Promotion Act | Agriculture and Food | 2005-07-29 | 2005-07-29 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9474-9475) | Senate | Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] | OR | D | W000779 | 0 | Specialty Crop and Value-Added Agriculture Promotion Act - Amends the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 to include within the definition of specialty crop: (1) farm-raised or wild-harvested fish and shellfish; and (2) organically produced specialty crops. Makes the authorization of appropriations for state specialty crop block grants permanent. Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to replace the agricultural marketing resource center pilot project with a state block grant program for value-added agricultural product market development. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an incentive program for third-party certification of agricultural producers and processors for quality and production practices that increase agricultural commodity marketability or value. Provides for up 50% reimbursement of participant certification costs. Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to direct the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out the adjusted gross revenue insurance pilot program as a permanent program. Authorizes the Corporation to: (1) expand the program to cover any county in which crops are produced; and (2) grant temporary policy subsidies for producers located in a county that has a high level of specialty crop production and has not had a high level of crop insurance coverage coverage. Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to direct the Secretary to: (1) make available to students in not more than 100 schools in each state, and in elementary and secondary schools on one Indian reservation, free fresh and dried fruits and vegetables throughout the school day in one or more school-designated areas; and (2) give priority to states that produce large quantities of specialty crops. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase operating loan limits for loans guaranteed other than by the Secretary. Revises the related inflation percentage determination. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to establish the position of Assistant United States Trade Repres… | 2023-01-13T04:50:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1556 |
| 109-s-1582 | 109 | s | 1582 | A bill to reauthorize the United States Grain Standards Act, to facilitate the official inspection at export port locations of grain required or authorized to be inspected under such Act, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-07-29 | 2005-07-29 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA] | GA | R | C000286 | 1 | Amends the United States Grain Standards Act to extend: (1) authority for inspection, weighing, and supervisory fees, supervisory and administrative cost limitations, and the advisory committee; and (2) authorization of appropriations. Authorizes with respect to export port locations of grain: (1) private entity performance of official inspection and weighing activities; and (2) use of more than one designated person or entity to perform such activities. (Makes certain geographic boundary provisions inapplicable to designated agencies at export port locations.) | 2023-01-13T04:50:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1582 |
| 109-s-1532 | 109 | s | 1532 | Agroterrorism Prevention Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-07-28 | 2005-07-28 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA] | PA | R | S000709 | 1 | Agroterrorism Prevention Act of 2005 - Amends federal criminal law to criminalize acts of agroterrorism (as defined by this Act). Provides for related monitoring and intelligence enhancements. Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security to expand and continue vulnerability assessments of the agriculture and food sectors. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) assist states and counties develop and implement plans for agricultural disease prevention and recovery (such plans to be modeled after the state animal response team); (2) assist states develop related regional and national response plans; (3) establish a public awareness campaign for agricultural producers that emphasizes heightened biosecurity and agricultural disease anomaly reporting; (4) develop guidelines to improve the monitoring of human traffic, vehicles, and materials entering or leaving farm or ranch operations, and disseminate such guidelines to agricultural producers; (5) develop a National Veterinary Stockpile; and (6) develop a National Plant Disease Recovery System. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to report respecting: (1) the need to modernize or replace federal animal and plant disease laboratories: and (2) state capability as first responders to animal diseases that threaten U.S. agriculture. States that if a livestock or poultry contract provides for arbitration, arbitration may be used to settle a controversy only if, after the controversy arises, both parties consent in writing to use arbitration to settle the controversy. | 2023-01-13T04:50:22Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1532 |
| 109-s-1534 | 109 | s | 1534 | Safe and Secure Food Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-07-28 | 2005-07-28 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] | IL | D | D000563 | 2 | Safe and Secure Food Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, the Egg Products Inspection Act, and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to promulgate regulations that require persons to implement procedures to prevent both unintentional and intentional contamination of meat and meat products, poultry and poultry products, eggs and egg products, and food at establishments covered by such Acts. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to initiate a food security inspector training program. Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act to: (1) require a person, other than a household consumer, who has reason to believe meat, poultry, eggs, or food products to be adulterated or misbranded to so notify the Secretary; (2) provide the Secretary with authority for voluntary and mandatory nondistribution and recall, withdrawal of inspectors from violating facilities, and civil penalties; and (3) bring related criminal penalties under the provisions of federal criminal law. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to: (1) require a person, other than a household consumer or other individual who is the intended food consumer, who has reason to believe that any food in interstate commerce, or held for sale after shipment in interstate commerce, may be in violation of such Act to so notify the Secretary; and (2) provide the Secretary with authority for voluntary and mandatory nondistribution and recall, withdrawal of inspectors from violating facilities, and civil penalties. Requires a foreign facility or foreign government that submits a registration to import food to the United States to request certification (valid for up to five years) from the Secretary that food produced under its the supervision meets food safety, inspection, labeling, and consumer protection standards that are at least equivalen… | 2023-01-13T04:50:22Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1534 |
| 109-s-1546 | 109 | s | 1546 | Food Stamp Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-07-28 | 2005-07-28 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] | IA | D | H000206 | 1 | Food Stamp Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2005 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to permit food stamp program purchases of nutritional supplements providing a vitamin or mineral. | 2023-01-13T04:50:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1546 |
| 109-s-1357 | 109 | s | 1357 | Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction and Enforcement Act | Agriculture and Food | 2005-06-30 | 2005-06-30 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] | IA | D | H000206 | 8 | Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction and Enforcement Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act, respectively, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe: (1) surveys to determine foodborne pathogen contamination levels for raw meat and raw poultry, and meat and poultry products processed in establishments inspected under such Acts; (2) public health goals; and (3) initial and final pathogen reduction performance standards to reduce pathogen contamination and achieve public health goals. Directs the Secretary to: (1) identify, and publish a list of, such pathogens; (2) initiate pathogen surveys to determine existing levels of meat and poultry contamination; (3) establish public health goals and objectives to achieve foodborne illness reduction; and (4) report on the scientific feasibility of establishing health-based performance standards for pathogens. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Advisory Committee for Microbiology Criteria for Foods.Directs the Secretary to enforce Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) System requirements and other sanitation requirements in any official establishment. Authorizes the Secretary to prohibit non-complying establishments from labeling any meat or meat product, or poultry or poultry product, as "inspected and passed." | 2019-11-15T21:44:12Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1357 |
| 109-s-1331 | 109 | s | 1331 | A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to charge the date of implementation of country of origin labeling to January 30, 2006. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-06-29 | 2005-06-29 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD] | SD | D | J000177 | 7 | Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to change the country of origin labeling implementation date to January 30, 2006. | 2019-11-15T21:44:13Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1331 |
| 109-s-1333 | 109 | s | 1333 | Meat Promotion Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-06-29 | 2005-06-29 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX] | TX | R | C001056 | 14 | Meat Promotion Act of 2005 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to replace current mandatory country of origin labeling requirements with a voluntary country of origin labeling program for meat and meat products. Sets forth: (1) limitations on use of United States country of origin labels; and (2) civil penalties for program violations. | 2019-11-15T21:44:13Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1333 |
| 109-s-1300 | 109 | s | 1300 | Food Promotion Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-06-23 | 2005-06-23 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA] | PA | R | S000059 | 4 | Food Promotion Act of 2005 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing of 1946 to replace current mandatory country of origin labeling requirements with voluntary country of origin labeling programs for: (1) meat and meat products; (2) wild fish, wild shellfish, farm-raised fish, farm-raised shellfish, and related products; and (3) perishable agricultural commodities. Sets forth: (1) limitations on use of U.S. country of origin labels; and (2) civil penalties for program violations. | 2022-02-03T05:35:12Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1300 |
| 109-s-1118 | 109 | s | 1118 | Irrigation Subsidy Reduction Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-05-25 | 2005-05-25 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. | Senate | Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] | WI | D | F000061 | 0 | Irrigation Subsidy Reduction Act of 2005 - Amends the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 to direct the Secretary of the Interior, for each parcel of land to which irrigation water is delivered or proposed to be delivered, to identify a single individual or legal entity as the owner, lessee, or operator. Allows irrigation water to be delivered at less than the normal per-acre cost to either: (1) a qualified recipient that reports gross farm income from a single farm operation in excess of $500,000 per taxable year; or (2) a limited recipient that received such water on or before October 1, 1981, and that reports gross farm income in excess of such amount. Requires lessees (currently, only owners and operators) of an irrigation district to furnish such district a certification of compliance. Allows the Secretary to require a lessee or operator to submit for examination a copy of a tax return for any taxable year in which the single farm operation of the lessee or operator received irrigation water at less than full cost. Repeals a provision exempting from federal reclamation ownership and cost pricing limitations district lands held in trust for a beneficiary whose interests in the lands served do not exceed such limitations. Directs the Secretaries of the Interior, the Treasury, and Agriculture to enter into a memorandum of understanding to grant the Secretary of the Interior access to and use available information collected or maintained by either the Department of the Treasury or Agriculture that would aid in enforcing federal ownership and pricing limitations. | 2023-01-13T04:48:05Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1118 |
| 109-s-1120 | 109 | s | 1120 | Hunger-Free Communities Act of 2006 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-05-25 | 2006-12-08 | Message on Senate action sent to the House. | Senate | Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] | IL | D | D000563 | 44 | Hunger-Free Communities Act of 2006 - Title I: National Commitment to End Hunger - (Sec. 101) Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study of major matters relating to the problem of hunger in the United States. Includes in such study: (1) data on hunger and food insecurity; and (2) federal, state, and local measures to achieve domestic hunger goals and hunger-free communities goals. Requires the Secretary to report to the President and Congress respecting such study. Title II: Strengthening Community Efforts - (Sec. 201) Directs the Secretary to use up to 90% of funds made available under title III of this Act for grants to eligible entities (as defined by this section) to pay the federal share (not to exceed 80%) of the costs of: (1) community hunger assessments; (2) food distribution, community outreach, or food access improvement; (2) developing new resources and strategies to help reduce hunger; (3) establishing a program to achieve a hunger-free communities goal, and (4) establishing a program to provide food and nutrition services as part of a coordinated community-based comprehensive service. Gives grant priority to entities meeting specified criteria. (Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary to use up to 10% of funds made available under title III of this Act for grants to eligible entities (as defined by this section) to pay the federal share (not to exceed 80%) of the training and technical assistance costs of organizations that: (1) work to achieve a domestic hunger goal; (2) work to achieve a hunger-free communities goal; or (3) were recipients of a grant under section 201 of this Act. Gives grant priority to entities meeting specified criteria. (Sec. 203) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress by September 30, 2011, respecting grants made under this title. Title III: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 301) Authorizes FY2006-FY2011 appropriations. | 2023-01-13T04:48:05Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1120 |
| 109-s-1038 | 109 | s | 1038 | Farming Flexibility Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-05-16 | 2005-05-16 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN] | IN | R | L000504 | 6 | Farming Flexibility Act of 2005 - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, with respect to direct and counter-cyclical payments, to: (1) permit a producer to reduce a covered commodity base acreage by electing to plant such acres with fruits or vegetables for processing; (2) require such election to be made annually; and (3) provide that if a farm's base acreage is recalculated, such fruit or vegetable production shall be considered the same as the planning, prevented planting, or production of the covered commodity. | 2023-01-13T04:48:07Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1038 |
| 109-s-1005 | 109 | s | 1005 | A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to permit certain summer food pilot programs to be carried out in all States and by all service institutions. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-05-11 | 2005-05-11 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN] | IN | R | L000504 | 1 | Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to make all States eligible to have specified summer food pilot projects carried out by service institutions within those States. (Eliminates a formula under current law for determining whether a State is eligible for such pilot projects.) | 2023-01-13T04:47:46Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1005 |
| 109-s-960 | 109 | s | 960 | Captive Supply Reform Act | Agriculture and Food | 2005-04-28 | 2005-04-28 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY] | WY | R | E000285 | 5 | Captive Supply Reform Act - Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 respecting livestock producer-packer forward contracts to: (1) require the inclusion of fixed dollar amount base pricing and public bidding; (2) prohibit formula pricing; (3) limit individual contract size; and (4) exclude from the definition of "formula price" futures-based prices and base adjustments resulting from factors outside packer control. | 2022-02-03T05:26:34Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/960 |
| 109-s-869 | 109 | s | 869 | Federal Milk Marketing Reform Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-04-21 | 2005-04-21 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4114) | Senate | Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] | WI | D | F000061 | 0 | Federal Milk Marketing Reform Act of 2005 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from using distance or transportation costs from a location not within a marketing area as the basis for pricing Class I (fluid) milk unless such location supplies the recipient marketing area with specified quantities of milk (single base point pricing). | 2019-11-15T21:44:11Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/869 |
| 109-s-854 | 109 | s | 854 | Ginseng Harvest Labeling Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-04-20 | 2005-04-20 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4027) | Senate | Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] | WI | D | F000061 | 1 | Ginseng Harvest Labeling Act of 2005 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require: (1) the labeling of raw ginseng offered for sale as food or a dietary supplement to contain country of harvest information; (2) ginseng importers to disclose country of harvest information at the point of U.S. entry. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to impose civil monetary penalties for failure to make such disclosures. | 2022-02-03T05:25:58Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/854 |
| 109-s-838 | 109 | s | 838 | Democracy for Dairy Producers Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-04-19 | 2005-04-19 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3900) | Senate | Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] | WI | D | F000061 | 0 | Democracy for Dairy Producers Act of 2005 - Requires, with respect to a specified referendum on Federal milk marketing orders and related reforms, that: (1) if a cooperative association of milk producers elects bloc voting on behalf of its members it shall provide each member with written notice of referendum issues, its intended voting position, and individual producer voting procedures; and (2) the Secretary of Agriculture adjust the association vote to reflect individual producer votes. | 2019-11-15T21:44:11Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/838 |
| 109-s-827 | 109 | s | 827 | Quality Cheese Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-04-18 | 2005-04-18 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3822) | Senate | Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] | WI | D | F000061 | 3 | Quality Cheese Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from using Federal funds to amend specified regulations to include dry ultra-filtered milk or casein in the definition of "milk" or "nonfat milk" as specified in the domestic natural standards for cheese and cheese products. | 2019-11-15T21:44:11Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/827 |
| 109-s-818 | 109 | s | 818 | A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to make it unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-04-15 | 2005-04-15 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] | IA | R | G000386 | 7 | Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to prohibit livestock packers from owning, controlling, or feeding livestock to such an extent that the producer no longer materially participates in the management of the operation, with exceptions for: (1) animals held for not more than seven days before slaughter; (2) certain cooperatives that own, control or feed livestock and provide such livestock for slaughter; (3) packers that are not required to report price and quantity information on each reporting day; or (4) packers that own one livestock processing plant. | 2022-02-03T05:26:01Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/818 |
| 109-s-796 | 109 | s | 796 | Natural Stock Conservation Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-04-14 | 2005-04-14 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3667) | Senate | Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK] | AK | R | M001153 | 0 | Natural Stock Conservation Act of 2005 - Amends the National Aquaculture Act of 1980 to prohibit specified agencies with aquaculture regulatory jurisdiction from issuing permits for marine aquaculture facilities in the exclusive economic zone until requirements for such permits are enacted into law. | 2019-11-15T21:44:11Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/796 |
| 109-s-802 | 109 | s | 802 | National Drought Preparedness Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-04-14 | 2005-04-14 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3675-3679) | Senate | Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM] | NM | R | D000407 | 14 | National Drought Preparedness Act of 2005 - Establishes in the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture the National Drought Council which shall develop a comprehensive National Drought Policy Action Plan, evaluate and coordinate Federal drought-related programs, establish and improve the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), and undertake public awareness activities. Terminates the Council eight years after enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish the National Office of Drought Preparedness to assist the Council. Establishes in the Treasury the Drought Assistance Fund, which shall be used to pay the cost of technical and financial assistance to States, Indian tribes, local governments, watershed groups, and critical service providers for: (1) drought preparedness plans and drought mitigation; (2) expanding the technology transfer of drought and water conservation strategies and innovative water supply techniques; (3) developing post-drought evaluations and recommendations; and (4) supplementing the costs of implementing NIDIS-related actions undertaken pursuant to this Act. Directs the Secretary to issue related implementing guidelines, including special requirements applicable to interstate watersheds. Requires Federal agencies to develop and implement drought preparedness plans. Authorizes States, Indian tribes, local governments, watershed groups, and regional water providers to develop and implement such plans. Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reimburse States for costs of prepositioning wildfire suppression resources. | 2019-11-15T21:44:11Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/802 |
| 109-s-767 | 109 | s | 767 | National Food and Agricultural Science Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-04-12 | 2005-04-12 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3490-3491) | Senate | Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO] | MO | R | B000611 | 6 | National Food and Agricultural Science Act of 2005 - Establishes: (1) in the National Science Foundation (NSF) a Division of Food and Agricultural Science, which shall be administered by a Director of Food and Agricultural Science; and (2) in the Division, a Standing Council of Advisors. States that the Division's sole function shall be to award grants to promote complementary, fundamental agricultural research to: (1) individual scientists; (2) single and multi-institutional research centers; and (3) private and public sector entities, including the Department of Agriculture, the Foundation, or other Federal agencies. | 2019-11-15T21:44:11Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/767 |
| 109-s-729 | 109 | s | 729 | Safe Food Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-04-06 | 2005-09-18 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9672-9673) | Senate | Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] | IL | D | D000563 | 2 | Safe Food Act of 2005 - Establishes the Food Safety Administration to administer and enforce food safety laws. Directs the Administrator of the Food Safety Administration to: (1) promulgate regulations to ensure the security of the food supply from all forms of contamination; (2) implement Federal food safety inspection, enforcement, and research efforts to protect the public health; (3) develop consistent and science-based standards for safe food; (4) coordinate and prioritize food safety research and education programs with other Federal agencies; (5) prioritize Federal food safety efforts and deployment of resources to achieve the greatest possible benefit in reducing food-borne illness; (6) coordinate the Federal response to food-borne illness outbreaks with other Federal and State agencies; and (7) integrate Federal food safety activities with State and local agencies. Transfers to the Administration all functions of specified Federal agencies that relate to the administration or enforcement of food safety laws, including (1) the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture; and (2) the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and the Center for Veterinary Medicine of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Requires the Administrator to: (1) administer a national food safety program based on an analysis of the hazards associated with different food and the processing of different food; (2) establish standards for processors of food and food establishments; (3) establish a certification system for foreign governments or food establishments seeking to import food to the United States; (4) establish requirements for tracing food and food producing animals from point of origin to retail sale; (5) maintain an active surveillance system of food, food products, and epidemiological evidence; (6) establish a sampling system to monitor contaminants in food; (7) rank and analyze hazards in the food supply; (8) establish a national public education campaign on food safety; and (9) conduct rese… | 2019-11-15T21:44:11Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/729 |
| 109-s-643 | 109 | s | 643 | A bill to amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 to reauthorize State mediation programs. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-03-16 | 2005-06-29 | Became Public Law No: 109-17. | Senate | Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS] | KS | R | R000307 | 3 | (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 to extend the authorization of appropriations through FY2010 for State mediation programs. | 2022-02-03T05:29:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/643 |
| 109-s-572 | 109 | s | 572 | Homeland Security Food and Agriculture Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-03-09 | 2005-12-15 | By Senator Collins from Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs filed written report. Report No. 109-209. | Senate | Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | A000069 | 1 | Homeland Security Food and Agriculture Act of 2005 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to carry out a program to protect the U.S. agriculture and food supply from agroterrorist acts. States that such program shall provide for: (1) advising and coordinating with federal, state, local, regional, and tribal homeland security officials regarding prevention and preparedness for, and the response to, an agroterrorist act; and (2) executing the Secretary's agriculture security responsibilities described in specified Homeland Security Presidential Directives. Sets forth the Secretary's responsibilities, including: (1) increasing biosecurity communication and coordination among federal, state, local, regional, and tribal emergency response providers and animal health and plant disease specialists; (2) ensuring that such entities execute their respective emergency roles; (3) ensuring that state, local, and tribal officials have adequate access to federal biosecurity information and resources; (4) coordinating with the Secretary of Transportation to develop guidelines on agricultural transportation restrictions in response to an agricultural disease; (5) coordinating with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in considering the potential environmental impact of an agricultural disease response by federal, regional, state, local, and tribal emergency response providers and animal health and plant disease specialists; (6) working with federal agencies (including other elements of the intelligence community and the Department of Agriculture) to improve the ability of employees to identify a biological commodity or product, livestock, or any other good imported from a suspect location; (7) coordinating with the Department of State to provide the President and federal agencies with guidelines for mutual assistance agreements with other countries to provide training for U.S. veterinarians, public health workers, and agriculture specialists in the identi… | 2023-01-13T04:49:58Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/572 |
| 109-s-573 | 109 | s | 573 | Agricultural Security Assistance Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-03-09 | 2005-07-29 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9433-9434) | Senate | Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | A000069 | 1 | Agricultural Security Assistance Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) determine the best use of epidemiologists, computer modelers, and statisticians as members of emergency response task forces that handle foreign or emerging agricultural disease emergencies, and identify necessary data for proper modeling and analysis of such emergencies; (2) provide grants to States to use a geographic information system or statistical model for an epidemiological assessment in the event of such an emergency; (3) implement an on-farm biosecurity awareness campaign, and a biosecurity grant pilot program; (4) require that Department of Agriculture-accredited veterinarians be trained to recognize foreign animal diseases; and (5) prepare studies on foreign plant disease vaccines and the establishment of a national plant disease laboratory. Provides for regional, State, local, and international agricultural preparedness and information sharing. Sets forth responsibilities of the Departments of Agriculture, State, Transportation, and Homeland Security, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Directs the Attorney General to review State and local laws relating to agroterrorism and biosecurity to determine: (1) the extent to which the laws facilitate or impede implementation of a Federal agricultural disease response plan; (2) whether a State injunction could delay implementation of such a plan, or affect an agricultural disease's spread; and (3) the legal evidence that may be required by a State court before a response plan may be implemented. | 2019-11-15T21:44:10Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/573 |
| 109-s-548 | 109 | s | 548 | Voluntary Public Access and Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-03-08 | 2005-05-17 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5296-5297) | Senate | Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND] | ND | D | C000705 | 22 | Voluntary Public Access and Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program Act of 2005 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program under which States and tribal governments may apply for grants to encourage owners and operators of privately-held farm, ranch, and forest land to voluntarily make such land available for public access under State- and tribally-administered plans. Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to exclude from excess base acreage computation for direct and counter-cyclical payment purposes certain conservation enrolled farm land not planted in an agricultural commodity. | 2022-02-03T05:25:35Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/548 |
| 109-s-531 | 109 | s | 531 | AMS Act | Agriculture and Food | 2005-03-04 | 2005-03-04 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA] | PA | R | S000059 | 1 | Agricultural Marketing Success Act of 2005 or the AMS Act - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to exempt certain tomato varieties produced in Florida under an identity preservation and biotechnology verification program from agricultural marketing order requirements. | 2019-11-15T21:44:10Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/531 |
| 109-s-385 | 109 | s | 385 | Rural America Preservation Act | Agriculture and Food | 2005-02-15 | 2005-02-15 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1426) | Senate | Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] | IA | R | G000386 | 8 | Rural America Preservation Act - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to reduce maximum annual direct and counter-cyclical commodity payments to $20,000 and $30,000, respectively. Revises limitation provisions for marketing loan gains, loan deficiency payments, and commodity certificate transactions, and establishes an annual combined limitation of $75,000 for such payments. Doubles payment limitations for single farming operations. Limits an individual to a combined annual payment of $250,000. Makes a person who commits fraud in connection with a scheme or device to evade certain program limitations (multiple entities, citizenship) ineligible for farm benefits for six years. | 2022-02-03T05:25:38Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/385 |
| 109-s-307 | 109 | s | 307 | MILC Extension Act | Agriculture and Food | 2005-02-07 | 2005-02-07 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA] | PA | R | S000059 | 0 | MILC Extension Act - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend contract authority for national dairy market loss payments. | 2019-11-15T21:44:10Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/307 |
| 109-s-273 | 109 | s | 273 | A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend and improve national dairy market loss payments. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-02-03 | 2005-02-03 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S981) | Senate | Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN] | MN | R | C001057 | 28 | Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 with respect to national dairy market loss payments to: (1) extend, by two years, program sign-up and contract periods; and (2) double single dairy operation payment quantities. | 2022-02-03T05:25:26Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/273 |
| 109-s-294 | 109 | s | 294 | A bill to strengthen the restrictions of the importation from BSE minimal-risk regions of meat, meat byproducts, and meat food products from bovines. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-02-03 | 2005-02-03 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT] | MT | R | B001126 | 7 | Applies the Code of Federal Regulations as amended by the final rule issued by the Secretary of Agriculture on January 4, 2005 (and any successor regulations) restricting importation from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) minimal-risk regions of meat and edible products from ruminants only to meat, meat byproducts, and meat food products derived from a bovine that is slaughtered at less than 30 months of age. Provides that if the Secretary, in consultation with appropriate officials in such a minimal risk region, determines that the region is in full compliance with a ruminant feed ban and other BSE safeguards, the Secretary: (1) shall report to specified congressional committees on the determination; and (2) may promulgate regulations to allow such rules to apply to meat, meat byproducts, and meat food products derived from a class of bovines in the region that is determined by the Secretary by the regulations. | 2019-11-15T21:44:10Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/294 |
| 109-s-194 | 109 | s | 194 | A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to permit the planting of chicory on base acres. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-01-26 | 2005-01-26 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE] | NE | D | N000180 | 1 | Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to permit the planting of chicory on base acres for purposes of direct and counter-cyclical payments. | 2019-11-15T21:44:07Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/194 |
| 109-s-108 | 109 | s | 108 | A bill to prohibit the operation during a calendar year of the final rule issued by the Secretary of Agriculture to establish standards for the designation of minimal-risk regions for the introduction of bovine spongiform encephalopathy into the United States, including designation of Canada as a minimal-risk region, and the importation into the United States from Canada of certain bovine ruminant products during that calendar year, unless country of origin labeling is required for the retail sale of a covered commodity during that calendar year. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-01-24 | 2005-01-24 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD] | SD | D | J000177 | 3 | Prohibits the operation during a calendar year of the January 4, 2005, final rule issued by the Secretary of Agriculture to establish standards for the designation of minimal-risk regions for the introduction of bovine spongiform encephalopathy into the United States, including designation of Canada as a minimal-risk region, and the importation into the United States from Canada of certain bovine ruminant products unless country of origin labeling is required for the retail sale of a covered commodity during that calendar year. | 2022-02-03T05:36:19Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/108 |
| 109-s-135 | 109 | s | 135 | A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to expand country of origin labeling for certain covered commodities. | Agriculture and Food | 2005-01-24 | 2005-01-24 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT] | MT | R | B001126 | 5 | Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 with respect to country of origin labeling provisions to: (1) include as a covered commodity ground and muscle cuts of beef, lamb, and pork as a processed food ingredient; and (2) make country of origin provisions applicable to retail sales as of September 30, 2005. | 2019-11-15T21:44:07Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/135 |
| 109-s-73 | 109 | s | 73 | Animal Feed Protection Act of 2005 | Agriculture and Food | 2005-01-24 | 2005-01-24 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S249-250) | Senate | Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] | WA | D | C000127 | 0 | Animal Feed Protection Act of 2005 - Makes it unlawful for any person to introduce into interstate or foreign commerce a covered article that contains: (1) specified risk material from a ruminant, or any material from a ruminant that was in any foreign country when there was a risk of transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and may contain specified risk material from a ruminant; or (2) any material from a ruminant exhibiting signs of a neurological disease. States that the head of a Federal agency may: (1) seize and destroy an article that is introduced into interstate or foreign commerce in violation of this Act; or (2) require any person who is in violation of this Act to cease the violation, to recall any sold article and refund the purchase price, to destroy or forfeit the article to the United States for destruction, or to cease production operations until the head of the appropriate Federal agency determines that there is no longer a violation of this Act. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for related civil and monetary penalties. Defines "covered article" as: (1) animal feed, nutritional supplement, or medicine; and (2) any other article that is ordinarily ingested, implanted, or otherwise taken into an animal. Sets forth exceptions. Defines "specified risk material" as: (1) the skull, brain, trigeminal ganglia, eyes, tonsils, spinal cord, vertebral column, or dorsal root ganglia of cattle and bison 30 months of age and older, or sheep, goats, deer, and elk 12 months of age and older; (2) the intestinal tract of any ruminant; and (3) any other material of a ruminant that may carry a prion disease. | 2019-11-15T21:44:06Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/73 |
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