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| 102-hr-6138 | 102 | hr | 6138 | To amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-10-05 | 1992-10-31 | Pocket Vetoed by President. | House | Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15] | TX | D | D000203 | 1 | Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit certain water and waste facility loans and grants to be made if the funds will be used primarily to provide services to residents of a rural area that was recognized as a colonia as of October 1, 1989. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-hr-6143 | 102 | hr | 6143 | To encourage and assist producers, processors, and other handlers of agricultural commodities to donate edible, but unmarketable, agricultural commodities to food banks, soup kitchens, and homeless shelters. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-10-05 | 1992-10-06 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development. | House | Rep. Collins, Barbara-Rose [D-MI-13] | MI | D | C000633 | 0 | Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to encourage and assist producers, processors, and other handlers of agricultural commodities to donate edible but unmarketable commodities to selected U.S. food banks, soup kitchens, and homeless shelters. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-s-3320 | 102 | s | 3320 | Agricultural Price Support Elimination Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-10-05 | 1992-10-05 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. | Senate | Sen. Brown, Hank [R-CO] | CO | R | B000919 | 0 | Agricultural Price Support Elimination Act of 1992 - Amends certain agricultural Acts to repeal price support and other specified agricultural assistance programs for milk, cotton, rice, honey, and tobacco. | 2025-08-26T15:13:52Z | |
| 102-s-3327 | 102 | s | 3327 | A bill to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to permit the acre-for-acre transfer of an acreage allotment or quota for certain commodities, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-10-05 | 1992-10-28 | Became Public Law No: 102-566. | Senate | Sen. Ford, Wendell H. [D-KY] | KY | D | F000268 | 1 | Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to permit an acre-for-acre transfer of certain tobacco acreage allotments. | 2021-09-25T05:34:39Z | |
| 102-hr-6124 | 102 | hr | 6124 | Entitled, "An Act to amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, to improve health care services and educational services through telecommunications, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-10-03 | 1992-10-08 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15] | TX | D | D000203 | 1 | Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to direct the Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration to: (1) encourage the development of consortia to provide health care or educational services through telecommunications in rural areas of a qualified local exchange carrier service area; and (2) provide grants ($1.5 million maximum award, three-year maximum disbursement) for such purposes. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-hr-6125 | 102 | hr | 6125 | Farm Credit Banks and Associations Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-10-03 | 1992-10-28 | Became Public Law No: 102-552. | House | Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15] | TX | D | D000203 | 1 | Farm Credit Banks and Associations Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 - Title I: Improvements to Farm Credit System Safety and Soundness - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to set forth qualifications for Farm Credit Administration (FCA) board members. Redefines "permanent capital." Title II: Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation - Makes the Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation (FCSIC) successor to the Farm Credit System (FCS) Assistance Board in the case of capital presentation agreements that certify certain banks as eligible to issue preferred stock to the Farm Credit System Assistance Corporation (Corporation). Requires the General Accounting Office to study and report to the Congress on: (1) risk-based FCSIC premiums; (2) possible Farm Credit System Insurance Fund (Fund) authority to assess associations directly; (3) possible supplemental FCSIC insurance premiums; (4) the benefits of consolidating district banks into regional banks; (5) FCS institutions' overhead expenses; and (6) potential savings if FCS institutions and the FCA were required to comply with certain Government office standards. Title III: Repayment of Farm Credit System Debt Obligations - Amends the Farm Credit Act to require an institution terminating FCS status to pay to the Corporation the estimated present value of future principal otherwise required had it remained in the FCS. Recognizes any such amount as a Corporation claim against the estate of a liquidating bank. States that the other banks' obligations shall not be reduced in anticipation of such recoveries, but only upon their receipt by the Corporation. Requires each institution to make annual payments to the Corporation to ensure debt repayment. Requires each institution that issued preferred stock, beginning in 1992, to appropriate specified earnings into an account to fund such stock's retirement. Requires each bank to: (1) record as an expense the annual increase of its bond repayment obligation; and (2) repay Treasury-paid interest on FCS obligations (through b… | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-hr-6126 | 102 | hr | 6126 | Rural Electrification Administration Improvement Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-10-03 | 1992-10-03 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development. | House | Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15] | TX | D | D000203 | 1 | Rural Electrification Administration Improvement Act of 1992 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to revise discounted loan prepayment provisions to permit prepayment or sale of a loan that was advanced before a certain date or has been fully advanced for not less than two years. Limits future loan eligibility for prepaying borrowers. | 2025-08-26T15:18:05Z | |
| 102-hr-6127 | 102 | hr | 6127 | Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act Amendments of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-10-03 | 1992-10-08 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15] | TX | D | D000203 | 1 | Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930 to prescribe conditions under which a transferee shall be deemed to have received trust assets with notice of the breach of the trust, and vice versa. | 2025-08-26T15:14:51Z | |
| 102-hr-6128 | 102 | hr | 6128 | To amend the United States Warehouse Act to provide for the use of electronic cotton warehouse receipts, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-10-03 | 1992-10-28 | Became Public Law No: 102-553. | House | Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15] | TX | D | D000203 | 1 | Amends the United States Warehouse Act to permit all (Federal or State licensed) cotton warehouses to record specified cotton receipt information required by such Act in a central filing system or systems. Deems such recording as establishing ownership under Federal or State law. States that: (1) a holder of an electronic cotton warehouse receipt shall be treated as being in possession of the warehouse receipt under Federal or State law; and (2) such provision shall apply to electronic receipts form all (Federal or State licensed) warehouses. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to provide for expedited action on marketing orders. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-hr-6129 | 102 | hr | 6129 | Agricultural Credit Improvement Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-10-03 | 1992-10-28 | Became Public Law No: 102-554. | House | Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15] | TX | D | D000203 | 1 | Agricultural Credit Improvement Act of 1992 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to state that the interest rate for loans sold into the secondary market may be lower than the interest rate on the retained portion, but may not exceed the average interest rate charged by the lender on loans made to farm and ranch borrowers. Provides for Federal-State coordination of assistance for beginning farmers and ranchers. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to establish an Advisory Committee on Beginning Farmers and Ranchers. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for rural passenger transportation services or facilities. Directs the Secretary to establish within the farm ownership loan program a ten-year down payment loan program for beginning farmers and ranchers. Sets forth loan terms. Limits the availability of certain agricultural loans and guarantees to beginning farmers and ranchers during specified applicable periods. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of assistance (ten-year maximum) for beginning farmers and ranchers. Requires an applicant to submit a farm operations plan (plan) to the appropriate county committee, which must be approved by the committee and by the Secretary. Provides assistance in the form of operating and equipment loan guarantees. Gives applicants priority for equipment purchases in the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) inventory. Terminates assistance for avoidable failure to achieve plan goals. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a program to encourage borrowers with operating loans or guarantees to graduate to private commercial credit sources; (2) develop a simplified application for loans $50,000 or less; (3) provide for the graduation of FmHA direct loan borrowers to FmHA guaranteed loans; and (4) maintain gender-based loan records and include women among the targeted loan recipients. Sets forth provisions regarding the transfer of Indian lands pledged as FmHA loan collateral, including properties containing a hazardous substance. Exten… | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-s-3314 | 102 | s | 3314 | Food Stamp Anti-Fraud Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-10-03 | 1992-10-03 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. | Senate | Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY] | KY | R | M000355 | 0 | Food Stamp Anti-Fraud Act of 1992 - Title I: Retail Food Stores and Wholesale Food Concerns - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 with regard to retail food stores participating in the food stamp program (program) to: (1) permit the use of application information by Federal or State enforcement authorities; and (2) repeal the limits on civil money penalties for food stamp trafficking and firearms or controlled substance trading. Amends the Social Security Act to permit the use of social security account numbers by Federal or State enforcement authorities. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the use of employer identification numbers by Federal or State enforcement authorities. Title II: Miscellaneous - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to permanently disqualify a recipient from program participation for trading of firearms, ammunition, explosives, or controlled substances for food stamps. States that penalties collected from retail or wholesale food concerns shall be used for related investigation and enforcement activities. Title III: Effective Dates - Sets forth the effective dates for provisions of this Act. | 2025-08-26T15:14:28Z | |
| 102-hr-6099 | 102 | hr | 6099 | Food Stamp Employment and Flexibility Amendments of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-10-02 | 1992-10-08 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition. | House | Rep. Emerson, Bill [R-MO-8] | MO | R | E000174 | 0 | Food Stamp Employment and Flexibility Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to: (1) revise specified food stamp program employment provisions; and (2) repeal specified pilot project limitations regarding income, resource, or benefit reductions. | 2025-08-26T15:15:54Z | |
| 102-hr-6112 | 102 | hr | 6112 | Egg Research and Consumer Information Act Amendments of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-10-02 | 1992-10-08 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Stenholm, Charles W. [D-TX-17] | TX | D | S000851 | 3 | Egg Research and Consumer Information Act Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Egg Research and Consumer Information Act to: (1) increase the maximum assessment rate from ten cents per case of commercial eggs to 30 cents per case; (2) authorize the Egg Board to increase assessments subject to producer referendum; and (3) increase the trigger level for assessment exemptions from (producers of) 30,000 laying hens to 50,000 laying hens. | 2025-08-26T15:14:11Z | |
| 102-s-3310 | 102 | s | 3310 | Agricultural Credit Amendments Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-10-02 | 1992-10-02 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. | Senate | Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND] | ND | D | C000705 | 15 | Agricultural Credit Amendments Act of 1992 - Title I: Farmers Home Administration Loans - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to state that the interest rate for loans sold into the secondary market may be lower than the interest rate on the retained portion, but may not exceed the average interest rate charged by the lender on loans made to farm and ranch borrowers. Provides for Federal-State coordination of assistance for beginning farmers and ranchers. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to establish an Advisory Committee on Beginning Farmers and Ranchers. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for rural passenger transportation services or facilities. Directs the Secretary to establish within the farm ownership loan program a ten-year down payment loan program for beginning farmers and ranchers. Sets forth loan terms. Limits the availability of certain agricultural loans and guarantees to beginning farmers and ranchers during specified applicable periods. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of assistance (ten-year maximum) for beginning farmers and ranchers. Requires an applicant to submit a farm operations plan (plan) to the appropriate county committee, which must be approved by the committee and by the Secretary. Provides assistance in the form of operation and equipment loan guarantees. Gives applicants priority for equipment purchases in the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) inventory. Terminates assistance for avoidable failure to achieve plan goals. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a program to encourage borrowers with operating loans or guarantees to graduate to private commercial credit sources; and (2) provide for the graduation of FmHA direct loan borrowers to FmHA guaranteed loans. Authorizes the leasing or leasing-with-purchase-option of certain FmHA inventory land not otherwise suitable for sale. Sets forth provisions regarding the transfer of Indian lands pledged as FmHA loan collateral, including properties containing a hazardous substance… | 2025-08-26T15:18:26Z | |
| 102-s-3311 | 102 | s | 3311 | Homeless Children's Assistance Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-10-02 | 1992-10-02 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. | Senate | Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] | VT | D | L000174 | 7 | Homeless Children's Assistance Act of 1992 - Amends the National School Lunch Act (NSLA) to specify that certain limitations on number of food service sites and number of children served at each site apply only to private nonprofit organizations, under provisions for demonstration projects to provide food service to homeless children under age six in emergency shelters. Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to revise provisions for allocation of funds for grants to public entities and private nonprofit organizations participating under such projects for homeless children's food services under NSLA, as well as provisions for allocation of certain returned funds. | 2025-08-26T15:16:34Z | |
| 102-hr-6015 | 102 | hr | 6015 | Watermelon Research and Promotion Improvement Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-09-24 | 1992-09-28 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition. | House | Rep. English, Glenn [D-OK-6] | OK | D | E000184 | 0 | Watermelon Research and Promotion Improvement Act of 1992 - Amends the Watermelon Research and Promotion Act to extend its provisions to: (1) imported watermelons and watermelon importers; and (2) each of the States and the District of Columbia. Authorizes the revocation of the watermelon assessment refund. Revises provisions regarding: (1) handler and producer National Watermelon Promotion Board membership; (2) assessment rates; and (3) referendum procedures. | 2025-08-26T15:14:34Z | |
| 102-hr-5987 | 102 | hr | 5987 | To amend the Farmland Protection Policy Act to extend the protections of such Act to farmland zoned for residential or commercial development. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-09-22 | 1992-09-24 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development. | House | Rep. Kostmayer, Peter H. [D-PA-8] | PA | D | K000319 | 0 | Amends the Farmland Protection Policy Act to extend its protections to farmland zoned for residential or commercial development. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-hr-5988 | 102 | hr | 5988 | To provide standards for imported tangerines and other citrus hybrids. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-09-22 | 1992-09-28 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade. | House | Rep. Lewis, Thomas F. [R-FL-12] | FL | R | L000295 | 0 | Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to provide for standards for imported tangerines and all citrus hybrids. | 2024-02-07T16:32:33Z | |
| 102-hr-5974 | 102 | hr | 5974 | To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to permit the acre-for-acre transfer of an acreage allotment or quota for certain commodities. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-09-18 | 1992-10-01 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Peanuts and Tobacco. | House | Rep. Clement, Bob [D-TN-5] | TN | D | C000503 | 1 | Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to permit an acre-for-acre transfer of certain tobacco acreage allotments. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-hr-5954 | 102 | hr | 5954 | An act to amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to improve health care services and educational services through telecommunications, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-09-16 | 1992-10-28 | Became Public Law No: 102-551. | House | Rep. English, Glenn [D-OK-6] | OK | D | E000184 | 0 | Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to direct the Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration to: (1) encourage the development of consortia to provide health care or educational services through telecommunications in rural areas of a qualified local exchange carrier service area; and (2) provide grants ($1.5 million maximum award, three-year maximum disbursement) for such purposes. Provides for expedited telephone loans for local exchange carrier service areas. Extends the termination date for certain distance learning and medical link programs provisions of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act of 1990. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-hr-5934 | 102 | hr | 5934 | Farmer Owned Reserve Improvements Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-09-14 | 1992-09-21 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development. | House | Rep. Johnson, Tim [D-SD-At Large] | SD | D | J000177 | 10 | Farmer Owned Reserve Improvements Act of 1992 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 with regard to the farmer owned reserve program to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) provide original price support loans for wheat and feed grains; (2) announce program conditions at any time; and (3) permit program entry as unforeseen market conditions warrant. Authorizes discretionary program exit for producers with original loans. | 2025-08-26T15:17:15Z | |
| 102-hr-5834 | 102 | hr | 5834 | Federal Crop Insurance Fairness Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-08-12 | 1992-09-02 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development. | House | Rep. Ewing, Thomas W. [R-IL-15] | IL | R | E000282 | 1 | Federal Crop Insurance Fairness Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act with respect to crop insurance yield coverage to: (1) base coverage on a producer's crop yields for a commodity over four-to-ten crop years; (2) provide for a minimum yield coverage floor; (3) limit transitional yield data use to not more than four years; and (4) permit the use of previous yield or transitional yield data for new land. States that late planting coverage shall: (1) extend for up to 25 days after the final planting date; and (2) reduce yield guarantee by one percent per day for the first ten days and two percent per day for the next 15 days. Includes prevented planting coverage with substitute crop option as part of the basic crop insurance policy. Provides 50 percent coverage for a natural disaster-caused prevented planting. Authorizes levels of coverage in excess of 75 percent of recorded or appraised average yield under specified circumstances. Requires the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees on the feasibility of providing de minimis yield coverage. | 2025-08-26T15:14:43Z | |
| 102-hr-5839 | 102 | hr | 5839 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require pre-market approval of food derived from genetically modified plants. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-08-12 | 1992-09-14 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. | House | Rep. Blackwell, Lucien E. [D-PA-2] | PA | D | B000517 | 0 | Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit unapproved introduction into interstate commerce of food from genetically modified plants. Allows approval only if the food is safe. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | |
| 102-hr-5844 | 102 | hr | 5844 | Farm Payment Fairness Restoration Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-08-12 | 1992-09-02 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Wheat, Soybeans, and Feed Grains. | House | Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-16] | MI | D | D000355 | 2 | Farm Payment Fairness Restoration Act of 1992 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to base 1994 and 1995 farm payment program yields on actual yields (rather than on 1990 yields). Provides any funding necessitated by such yield computation change from export program increases authorized by the Agricultural Reconciliation Act of 1990. | 2025-08-26T15:14:53Z | |
| 102-hr-5852 | 102 | hr | 5852 | To establish a 20 percent maximum broken kernel content limit for P.L. 480 rice shipments. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-08-12 | 1992-09-14 | Referred to the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade. | House | Rep. Huckaby, Thomas J. (Jerry) [D-LA-5] | LA | D | H000901 | 1 | Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to establish a 20 percent maximum broken kernel content for rice made available under such Act. | 2024-02-07T11:38:03Z | |
| 102-hr-5855 | 102 | hr | 5855 | To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require that imported meat and meat food products containing imported meat be labeled imported, and to require that certain eating establishments serving imported meat inform customers of that fact. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-08-12 | 1992-09-02 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Johnson, Tim [D-SD-At Large] | SD | D | J000177 | 1 | Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to define imported meat as misbranded if its label fails to either indicate that it is imported or indicate its country of origin. Imposes penalties for the failure of owners and operators of eating establishments to make certain disclosures. | 2025-03-21T14:53:55Z | |
| 102-hr-5882 | 102 | hr | 5882 | Program Crop Acreage Base Transfer Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-08-12 | 1992-09-02 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Cotton, Rice, and Sugar. | House | Rep. Roberts, Pat [R-KS-1] | KS | R | R000307 | 0 | Program Crop Acreage Base Transfer Act of 1992 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for the transfer of crop acreage bases and establishment of a farm program payment yield as a result of irrigation water shortages. | 2025-08-26T15:17:16Z | |
| 102-hr-5904 | 102 | hr | 5904 | Shellfish Safety Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-08-12 | 1992-09-14 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment. | House | Rep. Unsoeld, Jolene [D-WA-3] | WA | D | U000017 | 0 | Shellfish Safety Act of 1992 - Mandates issuance of rules establishing a National Shellfish Safety Program covering growers, harvesters, shippers, vessels, water quality, tracing, and monitoring and controlling biotoxins and contaminants. Provides for State programs, including monitoring, classifying, and closing growing and harvesting areas and certification of shippers. Authorizes a memorandum of understanding with any country with a program at least equivalent to the Program providng for specified matters, including requiring the country to certify shippers and make available a list of waters classified as open to harvest. Deems adulterated, for purposes of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, shellfish: (1) grown or harvested in a country without such a memorandum; (2) grown or harvested in a State without an approved program; (3) harvested from waters not classified as open; or (4) shipped by an uncertified shipper. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to evaluate the potential for removing restrictions on growing and harvesting areas. Authorizes cooperative agreements with States for restoration of such areas. | 2025-08-26T15:14:45Z | |
| 102-hr-5909 | 102 | hr | 5909 | WIC Infant Formula Procurement Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-08-12 | 1992-10-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education. | House | Rep. Wyden, Ron [D-OR-3] | OR | D | W000779 | 1 | WIC Infant Formula Procurement Act for 1992 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to revise the methods of procurement of infant formula for the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to solicit bids annually for a cost-containment contract to be entered into by infant formula manufacturers and those State agencies that elect to have the Secretary perform the bid solicitation and selection process on their behalf. Prescribes guidelines for the solicitation and selection process. Sets a deadline for the Secretary to report to the Congress on the decisions made by State agencies and the Secretary regarding bid solicitations, including any recommendations to increase competition by encouraging the participation of additional infant formula manufacturers. Prescribes guidelines for the Secretary to follow in order to reduce the costs of any supplemental foods. Directs the Secretary to allocate to each State agency for specified fiscal years an amount for costs of nutrition services and administration on the basis of a formula which shall be designated to provide funds to help defray reasonable anticipated expenses associated with specified aspects of joint purchasing of infant formula by two or more State agencies and cost containment efforts. | 2025-08-26T15:14:53Z | |
| 102-s-3202 | 102 | s | 3202 | Farmer Owned Reserve Improvements Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-08-12 | 1992-08-27 | Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Production. | Senate | Sen. Kerrey, J. Robert [D-NE] | NE | D | K000146 | 9 | Farmer Owned Reserve Improvements Act of 1992 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 with regard to the farmer owned reserve program to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) provide original price support loans for wheat and feed grains; (2) announce program conditions at any time; and (3) permit program entry as unforeseen market conditions warrant. Authorizes discretionary program exit for producers with original loans. | 2025-08-26T15:13:38Z | |
| 102-s-3210 | 102 | s | 3210 | Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Fair Share Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-08-12 | 1992-08-27 | Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Research, Gen. Leg. | Senate | Sen. Mack, Connie, III [R-FL] | FL | R | M000019 | 3 | Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Fair Share Act of 1992 - Amends Federal law to base Federal funding for agricultural experiment stations on the latest Department of Commerce population figures rather than on decennial census figures. Makes similar changes to: (1) the Smith-Lever Act with respect to the Federal Extension Service; and (2) the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 with respect to agricultural research at 1890 land grant colleges (including Tuskegee Institute), and the nutrition education program. | 2025-08-26T15:17:24Z | |
| 102-s-3166 | 102 | s | 3166 | A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to provide that narcotic addicts or alcoholics, and their children, who live under the supervision of a private nonprofit institution, or a publicly operated community mental health center, for the purpose of regular participation in a drug or alcoholic treatment program shall not be considered residents of institutions and shall be considered individual households, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-08-11 | 1992-08-28 | Referred to Subcommittee on Nutrition and Investigations. | Senate | Sen. DeConcini, Dennis [D-AZ] | AZ | D | D000185 | 0 | Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to allow eligible children who accompany an addicted parent into residential substance abuse treatment to participate in the food stamp program. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-s-3167 | 102 | s | 3167 | Federal Crop Insurance Fairness Act | Agriculture and Food | 1992-08-11 | 1992-08-27 | Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Production. | Senate | Sen. Durenberger, Dave [R-MN] | MN | R | D000566 | 8 | Federal Crop Insurance Fairness Act - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act with respect to crop insurance yield coverage to: (1) base coverage on a producer's crop yields for a commodity over four-to-ten crop years; (2) establish a minimum yield coverage floor of not less than entry level coverage; (3) limit transitional yield data use to not more than four years; and (4) permit the use of previous yield or transitional yield data for new land. States that late planting coverage shall: (1) extend for up to 25 days after the final planting date; and (2) reduce yield guarantee by one percent per day for the first ten days and two percent per day for the next 15 days. Includes prevented planting coverage (with substitute crop option) as part of the basic crop insurance policy. Provides 50 percent coverage for a natural disaster-caused prevented planting. States that the insured producers shall not have their indemnity payment reduced because of a de minimis yield. | 2025-08-26T15:13:37Z | |
| 102-hr-5775 | 102 | hr | 5775 | Voluntary National Tuberculosis Insurance for Elk Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-08-05 | 1992-08-10 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry. | House | Rep. Allard, Wayne [R-CO-4] | CO | R | A000109 | 5 | Voluntary National Tuberculosis Insurance for Elk Act of 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to set up a voluntary national insurance program for tuberculosis in elk to compensate participating owners for the destruction of any elk found to be infected with or exposed to tuberculosis. Sets forth provisions concerning: (1) insurance premiums; (2) deposit and investment of premiums received; and (3) enforcement of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to use the services, facilities, funds, and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation to establish, administer, and otherwise carry out the provisions of this Act. Directs the Secretary to return excess premium funds to the current policy holders of record on a pro rata basis if the insurance program is terminated. | 2025-08-26T15:16:12Z | |
| 102-s-3135 | 102 | s | 3135 | Rural Homeownership and Utilities Improvement Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-08-05 | 1992-08-27 | Referred to Subcommittee on Rural Development, Electrification. | Senate | Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | A000069 | 1 | Rural Homeownership and Utilities Improvement Act of 1992 - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971, for certain rural housing finance and secondary mortgage market purposes, to increase: (1) the percentage of outstanding loans that a Farm Credit Bank may have to persons other than farmers or ranchers; and (2) the population size for a rural area city or village. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit water and waste facility loans and grants to individuals for connections to installations within a residence. | 2025-08-26T15:13:35Z | |
| 102-hr-5763 | 102 | hr | 5763 | To provide equitable relief to producers of sugarcane subject to proportionate shares. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-08-04 | 1992-10-27 | Became Public Law No: 102-535. | House | Rep. Huckaby, Thomas J. (Jerry) [D-LA-5] | LA | D | H000901 | 1 | Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to make a sugarcane producer (who has harvested excess acres) liable for excess harvesting penalties only if such sugar is marketed by a sugarcane processor in excess of the processor's allocation. Makes a sugarcane producer who knowingly harvests or allows to be harvested excess acreage liable to the Commodity Credit Corporation for a civil penalty equal to one and one-half times the U.S. market value of the sugar marketed in excess of the processor's allocation. Requires any assessed penalty to be prorated among producers of all sugarcane acquired by the processor from excess acres. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to suspend or adjust sugarcane limits due to a natural disaster or other adverse condition. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-hr-5764 | 102 | hr | 5764 | To amend the United States Warehouse Act to provide for the use of electronic cotton warehouse receipts. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-08-04 | 1992-08-27 | Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Research, Gen. Leg. | House | Rep. Huckaby, Thomas J. (Jerry) [D-LA-5] | LA | D | H000901 | 1 | Amends the United States Warehouse Act to permit all (Federal or State licensed) cotton warehouses to record specified cotton receipt information required by such Act in a central filing system or systems. Deems such recording as establishing ownership under Federal or State law. Limits to Federal warehouses the Secretary of Agriculture's authority to make only liens recorded on the central filing system enforceable against registered owners or purchasers. Requires all (Federal or State licensed) warehouses with a central filing system to deliver stored cotton to the registered owner upon request. States that: (1) a holder of an electronic cotton warehouse receipt shall be treated as being in possession of the warehouse receipt under Federal or State law; and (2) such provision shall apply to electronic receipts from all (Federal or State licensed) warehouses. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-s-3124 | 102 | s | 3124 | Farming Opportunity Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-08-03 | 1992-08-27 | Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit. | Senate | Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | A000069 | 0 | Farming Opportunity Act of 1992 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide for Federal-State coordination of assistance for beginning farmers and ranchers. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to establish an Advisory Committee on Beginning Farmers and Ranchers. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of assistance (ten-year maximum) for beginning farmers and ranchers. Requires an applicant to submit a farm operations plan (plan) to the appropriate county committee, which must be approved by the committee and then by the Secretary. Provides assistance in the form of operating and equipment loans or guarantees. Gives applicants priority for equipment purchases in the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) inventory. Terminates assistance for avoidable failure to achieve plan goals. Directs the Secretary to establish within the farm ownership loan program a ten-year down payment loan program for beginning farmers and ranchers. Sets forth loan terms. Limits the availability of certain other agricultural loans and guarantees to beginning farmers and ranchers during specified applicable periods. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a program to encourage borrowers with operating loans or guarantees to graduate to private commercial credit sources; (2) develop a simplified application for loans of $50,000 or less; (3) provide for the graduation of FmHA direct loan borrowers to FmHA guaranteed loans; and (4) keep gender-based records of loan success rates and include women among targeted loan recipients. Sets forth debt service margin requirements, including the establishment of a certified lenders program. | 2025-08-26T15:15:42Z | |
| 102-hr-5741 | 102 | hr | 5741 | Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act Technical Amendments of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-07-31 | 1992-08-12 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15] | TX | D | D000203 | 3 | Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act Technical Amendments of 1992 - Reaffirms specified findings under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930 that: (1) a burden on commerce is caused by financing arrangements under which buyers of perishable agricultural commodities give lenders a security interest in commodity trust assets; and (2) such arrangements are against the public interest. Amends such Act to require lenders who finance the business operations of perishable agricultural commodities commission merchants, dealers, or brokers to hold certain assets they receive in trust for the benefit of unpaid sellers, whether or not the lenders hold a security interest in such trust assets. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-hr-5742 | 102 | hr | 5742 | USDA National Appeals Division Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-07-31 | 1992-08-04 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Espy, Mike [D-MS-2] | MS | D | E000218 | 7 | USDA National Appeals Division Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to establish and maintain an independent National Appeals Division within the Office of the Secretary to hear appeals of adverse decisions made by certain agencies within the Department of Agriculture. Requires the Secretary to develop a subject-matter index of all significant final determinations and make such index available to the public. Requires the Secretary to provide an appellant with notice and opportunity for hearing. Sets forth administrative appeal provisions regarding: (1) informal hearings and appealable decisions; (2) access to materials; (3) hearings; (4) administrative appeal review; (5) judicial review; (6) implementation of final determinations; (7) employee evaluation; and (8) prohibition of adverse action during a pending appeal. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 to increase the Federal assistance ceiling for State agricultural loan mediation programs. | 2025-08-26T15:15:08Z | |
| 102-hr-5746 | 102 | hr | 5746 | Health Choices Freedom Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-07-31 | 1992-08-26 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. | House | Rep. Richardson, Bill [D-NM-3] | NM | D | R000229 | 28 | Health Choices Freedom Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define "dietary supplement." Declares that a supplement is not: (1) a drug solely because of its potency or because its labeling or advertising contains certain material; or (2) a food additive if certain requirements are met. Regulates supplement labeling and advertising. | 2025-08-26T15:17:56Z | |
| 102-s-3116 | 102 | s | 3116 | Egg Research and Consumer Information Act Amendments of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-07-31 | 1992-08-27 | Referred to Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing. | Senate | Sen. Pryor, David H. [D-AR] | AR | D | P000556 | 1 | Egg Research and Consumer Information Act Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Egg Research and Consumer Information Act to: (1) increase the maximum assessment rate from ten cents per case of commercial eggs to 30 cents per case; (2) authorize the Egg Board to increase assessments subject to producer referendum; and (3) increase the trigger level for assessment exemptions from (producers of) 30,000 laying hens to 50,000 laying hens. | 2025-08-26T15:16:46Z | |
| 102-s-3119 | 102 | s | 3119 | USDA National Appeals Division Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-07-31 | 1992-09-30 | Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit. Hearings concluded. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 102-944. | Senate | Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND] | ND | D | C000705 | 10 | USDA National Appeals Division Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to establish and maintain an independent National Appeals Division within the Office of the Secretary to hear appeals of adverse decisions made by certain agencies within the Department of Agriculture. Requires the Secretary to develop a subject-matter index of all significant final determinations and make such index available to the public. Requires the Secretary to provide an appellant with notice and opportunity for hearing. Sets forth administrative appeal provisions regarding: (1) informal hearings and appealable decisions; (2) access to materials; (3) hearings; (4) administrative appeal review; (5) judicial review; (6) implementation of final determinations; (7) employee evaluation; and (8) prohibition of adverse action during a pending appeal. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 to increase the Federal assistance ceiling for State agricultural loan mediation programs. | 2025-08-26T15:13:57Z | |
| 102-hr-5703 | 102 | hr | 5703 | Health Freedom Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-07-28 | 1992-08-07 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. | House | Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-21] | CA | R | G000021 | 24 | Health Freedom Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define "dietary supplement" as an article that: (1) includes, and is intended to supplement the diet with, a vitamin, mineral, herb, or another similar nutritional substance; or (2) is intended for ingestion in tablet, capsule, or liquid form, or another similar form. Provides that a dietary supplement shall not be considered to be a drug solely because: (1) of the potency of a substance in such supplement; and (2) the labeling or advertising for the supplement contains a claim, or provides information, concerning the potency of a substance in the supplement, or contains a health claim of the type permitted under this Act. Specifies that: (1) a substance in a dietary supplement is not a food additive if the substance is identified in the labeling of the dietary supplement as a substance provided by the product to supplement the diet; and (2) an article that is a dietary supplement may be described as a dietary supplement in labeling or advertising. Permits labeling or advertising for such a supplement to include a claim or other information that characterizes the relationship of the supplement, or the presence or absence of one or more of the substances provided by the supplement, to a disease or health-related condition, if: (1) such claim or other information is truthful and not misleading; and (2) there is scientific evidence, whether published or unpublished, that provides a reasonable basis for such claim or other information. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from establishing any requirement that such a claim or other information that meets the requirements of this Act be approved by or conform to a regulation issued by the Secretary before the claim or information may be used. Provides that, if the Secretary asserts that labeling or advertising for a dietary supplement includes a claim or other information that fails to comply with the Act, the manufacturer (or other specified parties) may bring an actio… | 2025-08-26T15:15:28Z | |
| 102-s-3011 | 102 | s | 3011 | Midwest Dairy Equity Act | Agriculture and Food | 1992-07-23 | 1992-07-23 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. | Senate | Sen. Durenberger, Dave [R-MN] | MN | R | D000566 | 6 | Midwest Dairy Equity Act - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to establish: (1) a uniform class I milk price adjustment of $1.80 per hundredweight for all marketing areas; and (2) the minimum fluid beverage milk price at $13.20 per hundredweight. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on the desirability and effects of fortifying beverage milk with nonfat solids; and (2) establish manufacturing allowances of $1.37 per hundredweight of milk for butter and nonfat dry milk, and $1.52 per hundredweight for cheese. | 2025-08-26T15:13:38Z | |
| 102-s-3001 | 102 | s | 3001 | A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to prevent a reduction in the adjusted cost of the thrifty food plan during fiscal year 1993, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-07-22 | 1992-08-26 | Became Public Law No: 102-351. | Senate | Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM] | NM | R | D000407 | 4 | Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to prohibit a reduction in the adjusted cost of the thrifty food plan for FY 1993 food stamp program purposes. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-hr-5561 | 102 | hr | 5561 | Health Freedom Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-07-07 | 1992-07-24 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. | House | Rep. Dannemeyer, William E. [R-CA-39] | CA | R | D000044 | 0 | Health Freedom Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define "dietary supplement" as an article that: (1) includes, and is intended to supplement the diet with, a vitamin, mineral, herb, or another similar nutritional substance; or (2) is intended for ingestion in tablet, capsule, or liquid form, or another similar form. Provides that a dietary supplement shall not be considered to be a drug solely because: (1) of the potency of a substance in such supplement; and (2) the labeling or advertising for the supplement contains a claim, or provides information, concerning the potency of a substance in the supplement, or contains a health claim of the type permitted under this Act. Specifies that: (1) a substance in a dietary supplement is not a food additive if the substance is identified in the labeling of the dietary supplement as a substance provided by the product to supplement the diet; and (2) an article that is a dietary supplement may be described as a dietary supplement in labeling or advertising. Permits labeling or advertising for such a supplement to include a claim or other information that characterizes the relationship of the supplement, or the presence or absence of one or more of the substances provided by the supplement, to a disease or health-related condition, if: (1) such claim or other information is truthful and not misleading; and (2) there is scientific evidence, whether published or unpublished, that provides a reasonable basis for such claim or other information. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from establishing any requirement that such a claim or other information that meets the requirements of this Act be approved by or conform to a regulation issued by the Secretary before the claim or information may be used. Provides that, if the Secretary asserts that labeling or advertising for a dietary supplement includes a claim or other information that fails to comply with the Act, the manufacturer (or other specified parties) may bring an actio… | 2025-08-26T15:17:54Z | |
| 102-hr-5549 | 102 | hr | 5549 | To repeal the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, require the sale of all loans made under such Act, and authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans to electric generation and transmission cooperatives which are unable to obtain needed financing in the private sector. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-07-02 | 1992-07-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development. | House | Rep. Santorum, Rick [R-PA-18] | PA | R | S000059 | 4 | Repeals the Rural Electrification Act of 1936. Requires the cash sale to private investors of outstanding loans made under such Act. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize loans to electric power cooperative associations unable to secure credit at reasonable rates elsewhere. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-hr-5554 | 102 | hr | 5554 | To require the consolidation of agricultural research and extension activities of the Department of Agriculture. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-07-02 | 1992-07-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture. | House | Rep. Santorum, Rick [R-PA-18] | PA | R | S000059 | 4 | Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) consolidate the functions and activities of the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service, the Cooperative State Research Service, and the Federal Extension Service; and (2) establish in the Department a unified Agriculture Research and Extension Service. Authorizes appropriations for such Service. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-s-2968 | 102 | s | 2968 | Nutrition Advertising Coordination Act 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-07-02 | 1992-07-02 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Metzenbaum, Howard M. [D-OH] | OH | D | M000678 | 0 | Nutrition Advertising Coordination Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem a food misbranded unless its advertising regarding certain nutrients: (1) conforms to certain nutrient labeling regulations concerning the relationship between a nutrient and a disease or a health-related condition; or (2) includes a statement referring to the label for complete information. | 2025-08-26T15:13:38Z | |
| 102-s-2972 | 102 | s | 2972 | A bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to temporarily prohibit the use of funds to carry out the WIC-Child Impact Study or a similar study, to direct that any savings be used for supplemental foods and related costs for nutrition services and administration under the WIC program, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-07-02 | 1992-07-31 | Referred to Subcommittee on Nutrition and Investigations. | Senate | Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] | VT | D | L000174 | 0 | Amends provisions of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 relating to the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC program) to prohibit program funds from being used to carry out the WIC-Child Impact Study or a similar study. Requires an amount equal to the amount that would otherwise have been expended to carry out such a study to be made available for supplemental foods and related costs for nutrition services and administration. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-s-2978 | 102 | s | 2978 | A bill to amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to permit the prepayment and refinancing of Federal Financing Bank loans made to rural electrification and telephone systems, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-07-02 | 1992-07-31 | Referred to Subcommittee on Rural Development, Electrification. | Senate | Sen. Pryor, David H. [D-AR] | AR | D | P000556 | 3 | Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to permit the prepayment and refinancing of Federal Financing Bank loans made to rural electrification and telephone systems. Provides for: (1) a one-time refinancing penalty; (2) prepayment without penalty; and (3) equal and pro-rata liens for prepayment third-party lenders. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-s-2982 | 102 | s | 2982 | Agricultural Credit Improvement Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-07-02 | 1992-07-31 | Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit. | Senate | Sen. Bumpers, Dale [D-AR] | AR | D | B001057 | 4 | Agricultural Credit Improvement Act of 1992 - Title I: Amendments to the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program of assistance (ten-year maximum) for beginning farmers (including aquaculture) and ranchers. Requires an applicant to submit a farm operations plan (plan) to the appropriate county committee, which must be approved by the committee and then by the Secretary of Agriculture. Provides assistance in the form of operating and equipment loans or guarantees. Gives applicants priority for equipment purchases in the Farmers Home Administration inventory. Terminates assistance for avoidable failure to achieve plan goals. Directs the Secretary to establish within the farm ownership loan program a ten-year down payment loan program for beginning farmers and ranchers. Sets forth loan terms. Limits the availability of certain other agricultural loans and guarantees to beginning farmers and ranchers during specified applicable periods. Sets forth debt service margin requirements. Provides for: (1) Federal-State beginning farmer assistance coordination; and (2) the establishment of an Advisory Committee on Beginning Farmers and Ranchers. Directs the Secretary to establish a plan to encourage the graduation of assisted borrowers to private commercial credit. Limits operating loan assistance to ten years and loan guarantee assistance to 15 years. Authorizes hardship waivers. Title II: Amendments to the Farm Credit Act of 1971 - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to repeal the authority of the Farm Credit System (FCS) Insurance Corporation to designate one of its directors as a nonvoting representative to the board of directors of the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation. Expands water and sewer lending authority of banks for cooperatives. Repeals the limitation on FCS bank director compensation. Includes director compensation in the scope of FCS institution examinations. Requires al… | 2025-08-26T15:17:41Z | |
| 102-s-2917 | 102 | s | 2917 | A bill to amend the National School Lunch Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial and other assistance to the University of Mississippi, in cooperation with the University of Southern Mississippi, to establish and maintain a food service management institute, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-06-30 | 1992-08-07 | Became Public Law No: 102-337. | Senate | Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS] | MS | R | C000567 | 0 | Amends the National School Lunch Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide assistance to the University of Mississippi in cooperation with the University of Southern Mississippi, to establish and maintain a food service management institute. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-hr-5490 | 102 | hr | 5490 | Universal Student Nutrition Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-06-25 | 1992-07-20 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education. | House | Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7] | CA | D | M000725 | 1 | Universal Student Nutrition Act of 1992 - Amends the National School Lunch Act to establish an optional universal school lunch and breakfast program. Requires that the Secretary of Agriculture's minimum nutritional requirements for the current school lunch and school breakfast programs be prescribed in accordance with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans developed by the Department of Agriculture. Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to require that grants to States for nutrition education and information be based on a rate of 50 cents for each child enrolled in schools or institutions in the State. | 2025-08-26T15:17:35Z | |
| 102-hr-5494 | 102 | hr | 5494 | Rural Electrification Administration Management Improvement Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-06-25 | 1992-07-07 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development. | House | Rep. Porter, John Edward [R-IL-10] | IL | R | P000444 | 1 | Rural Electrification Administration Management Improvement Act of 1992 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to repeal the borrower authority to determine the term of telephone loans. Directs the Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration and the Governor of the Rural Telephone Bank to issue regulations regarding borrower use of excess funds. Revises provisions regarding: (1) direct or insured loan prepayment provisions; and (2) retirement of class A stock. | 2025-08-26T15:16:16Z | |
| 102-s-2879 | 102 | s | 2879 | A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from spending or obligating any appropriated funds to purchase, procure, or upgrade computers used by certain farmer service agencies of the Department of Agriculture prior to the implementation by the Secretary of reforms of the field structure and organization of the farmer service agencies, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-06-23 | 1992-06-23 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. | Senate | Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] | VT | D | L000174 | 0 | Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from spending or obligating any appropriated funds to purchase, procure, or upgrade computers used by certain farmer service agencies of the Department of Agriculture prior to the implementation by the Secretary of reforms of the field structure and organization of the farmer service agencies. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-s-2884 | 102 | s | 2884 | Fish Safety Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-06-23 | 1992-06-23 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. | Senate | Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS] | MS | R | C000567 | 6 | Fish Safety Act of 1992 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to create a new title setting forth a fish inspection program. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to exempt from specific provisions of the title: (1) fish processing by an individual for use in that individual's household; (2) custom processing for use in the household of the product owner; (3) processing of products not intended for nor capable of use as human food; (4) warehousing of up to 50 pounds or of product caught for other than commercial purposes in waters outside the United States; and (5) operations of types traditionally and usually conducted at retail stores or restaurants. Excludes from the application of the title recreational vessels, commercial fishing vessels, or fish tender vessels except where such vessels process fish. Authorizes the Secretary to cooperate with the appropriate agency in any State that has enacted a mandatory State fish product inspection law with requirements at least equal to those in the title. Prohibits State programs from permitting products to bear any official marks or certificates applicable to products in interstate commerce. Requires that fish products processed for intrastate commerce under a State program that are sold, transported, delivered, or offered for sale in interstate commerce be considered adulterated. Authorizes the Secretary to cooperate with State agencies concerning the State administration of the inspection and sampling components of the fish inspection program established under the title on behalf of the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to provide State agencies with advisory assistance, technical and laboratory assistance and training, and financial and other assistance for up to 50 percent of the cost of the cooperative program. Requires State program participants to submit operation plans to the Secretary annually. Directs the Secretary to establish standards for the efficient and effective administration of the sampling and inspection program by each appro… | 2025-08-26T15:16:38Z | |
| 102-hr-5439 | 102 | hr | 5439 | Food Stamp Quality Control System Amendments of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-06-18 | 1992-06-23 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Hatcher, Charles [D-GA-2] | GA | D | H000340 | 0 | Food Stamp Quality Control System Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to revise the formula (and related provisions) for determining a State's liability for excessive food stamp payment errors. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the State food stamp agencies to conduct a joint study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on measurement error and uniformity in the food stamp program quality control error-rate estimation system. | 2025-08-26T15:17:26Z | |
| 102-s-2875 | 102 | s | 2875 | Children's Nutrition Assistance Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-06-18 | 1992-10-24 | Became Public Law No: 102-512. | Senate | Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] | VT | D | L000174 | 0 | Children's Nutrition Assistance Act of 1992 - Title I: Homeless Children's Assistance - Homeless Children's Assistance Act of 1992 - Amends the National School Lunch Act to provide that each private nonprofit organization shall operate not more than five food service sites under a certain demonstration program. (Public organizations are thus not limited in the number of sites they may operate.) Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to modify the guidelines for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to follow in allocating returned funds to the States. (Allows the Secretary to estimate anticipated returns of unused State administrative expense funds and allocate an equivalent amount to homeless programs in advance of need.) Title II: WIC Infant Formula Procurement - WIC Infant Formula Procurement Act of 1992 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to set forth guidelines under which the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) shall offer to solicit bids on behalf of State agencies regarding cost-containment contracts to be entered into by infant formula manufacturers and those State agencies. Directs the Secretary to make the offer to agencies once every 12 months. Prescribes guidelines for the solicitation and selection process. Prescribes guidelines to reduce the costs of any supplemental foods. Establishes a civil penalty for companies that engage in price-fixing or related anticompetitive practices. Authorizes the Secretary to disqualify such companies from participating in the WIC Program for two years. Requires each State agency to advise the Secretary which procedures it will use to reduce the purchase of low-iron infant formula for infants for whom such formula has not been prescribed by an appropriate health professional. Directs the Secretary to allocate amounts to each State agency for nutrition services and administration on the basis of a prescribed formula which may provide funds to help defray reasonable anticipated expenses associated with innovations in cost-containment or associated… | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-s-2861 | 102 | s | 2861 | A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing a rule that would allow the importation of papayas into the contintental United States, Alaska, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands of the United States from Costa Rica until certain conditions are met, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-06-17 | 1992-07-31 | Referred to Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing. | Senate | Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | I000025 | 0 | Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing a rule that would allow the importation of papayas into the continental United States, Alaska, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands of the United States from Costa Rica until certain conditions are met. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-hr-5401 | 102 | hr | 5401 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that foods derived from plant varieties developed by methods of genetic modification be labeled to identify their derivation. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-06-16 | 1992-07-08 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. | House | Rep. Kleczka, Gerald D. [D-WI-4] | WI | D | K000259 | 7 | Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem a food misbranded if it is derived from a plant developed by genetic modification unless it is so labeled. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | |
| 102-hr-5402 | 102 | hr | 5402 | To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to remove certain easement requirements under the conservation reserve program, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-06-16 | 1992-06-25 | See S.2780. | House | Rep. Penny, Timothy J. [D-MN-1] | MN | D | P000215 | 0 | Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to eliminate certain "useful life" easement requirements under the conservation reserve program. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-s-2835 | 102 | s | 2835 | Health Freedom Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-06-11 | 1992-06-11 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 16 | Health Freedom Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define "dietary supplement" as an article that: (1) includes, and is intended to supplement the diet with, a vitamin, mineral, herb, or another similar nutritional substance; or (2) is intended for ingestion in tablet, capsule, or liquid form, or another similar form. Provides that a dietary supplement shall not be considered to be a drug solely because: (1) of the potency of a substance in such supplement; and (2) the labeling or advertising for the supplement contains a claim, or provides information, concerning the potency of a substance in the supplement, or contains a health claim of the type permitted under this Act. Specifies that: (1) a substance in a dietary supplement is not a food additive if the substance is identified in the labeling of the dietary supplement as a substance provided by the product to supplement the diet; and (2) an article that is a dietary supplement may be described as a dietary supplement in labeling or advertising. Permits labeling or advertising for such a supplement to include a claim or other information that characterizes the relationship of the supplement, or the presence or absence of one or more of the substances provided by the supplement, to a disease or health-related condition, if: (1) such claim or other information is truthful and not misleading; and (2) there is scientific evidence, whether published or unpublished, that provides a reasonable basis for such claim or other information. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from establishing any requirement that such a claim or other information that meets the requirements of this Act be approved by or conform to a regulation issued by the Secretary before the claim or information may be used. Provides that, if the Secretary asserts that labeling or advertising for a dietary supplement includes a claim or other information that fails to comply with the Act, the manufacturer (or other specified parties) may bring an actio… | 2025-08-26T15:17:08Z | |
| 102-hr-5345 | 102 | hr | 5345 | To amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to extend eligibility to junior and community colleges for grants and fellowships for food and agricultural sciences education. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-06-09 | 1992-06-11 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture. | House | Rep. Hughes, William J. [D-NJ-2] | NJ | D | H000930 | 0 | Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to extend eligibility to junior and community colleges for grants and fellowships for food and agricultural sciences education. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-hjres-489 | 102 | hjres | 489 | Designating February 21, 1993, through February 27, 1993, as "American Wine Appreciation Week", and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-05-21 | 1992-10-23 | Became Public Law No: 102-468. | House | Rep. Fazio, Vic [D-CA-4] | CA | D | F000053 | 220 | Designates February 21 through 27, 1993, as American Wine Appreciation Week. Commends the winegrape and fruit growers and vintners of the United States for the production of high quality agricultural products. | 2024-02-06T20:04:02Z | |
| 102-hr-5237 | 102 | hr | 5237 | Rural Electrification Administration Improvement Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-05-21 | 1992-10-21 | Became Public Law No: 102-428. | House | Rep. English, Glenn [D-OK-6] | OK | D | E000184 | 50 | Rural Electrification Administration Improvement Act of 1992 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to revise discounted loan prepayment provisions to permit prepayment or sale of a loan that was advanced before May 1, 1992, or has been advanced for not less than two years at the lesser of: (1) the loan's outstanding principal balance; or (2) the loan's discounted present value. Limits future loan eligibility for certain prepaying borrowers. | 2025-02-04T16:54:13Z | |
| 102-hr-5238 | 102 | hr | 5238 | Revitalization of Health and Education in Rural America Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-05-21 | 1992-07-10 | Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from USDA. | House | Rep. English, Glenn [D-OK-6] | OK | D | E000184 | 27 | Revitalization of Health and Education in Rural America Act of 1992 - Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to direct the Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration to establish a program for providing grants to qualified consortia to assist them in obtaining access to modern interactive telecommunications systems through the public switched network. Sets forth: (1) application requirements; (2) review and comment procedures (by a State agency); (3) criteria for selection of grantees (giving priority to applications demonstrating the greatest likelihood of successfully and efficiently carrying out specified activities, the participation of the local telephone exchange carrier in providing and operating the telecommunications transmission facilities required by a State plan for upgrading rural telecommunications infrastructure, and unconditional financial support from the local community, and ensuring (to the extent possible) that various regions of the United States benefit from the use of the grants); and (4) limits on the maximum grant amount and the period of disbursement of grants. Specifies that grants under this Act may be used to support the costs of activities involving the sending and receiving of information to improve health care or educational services in rural areas. Sets limitations with respect to: (1) the use of grant funds for the acquisition of interactive telecommunications equipment; (2) the use of such funds to employ consultants; and (3) the authorization of appropriations. Bars the use of funds under this Act to establish or operate a telecommunications network or telecommuncations service for hire. Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (REA) to: (1) provide for a reduction in the interest rate on insured telephone loans for borrowers from States with plans for upgrading rural telecommunications infrastructure; and (2) eliminate a preference for rural telephone bank loans for borrowers located in such States. Modifies the definition of "… | 2025-08-26T15:13:45Z | |
| 102-s-2780 | 102 | s | 2780 | A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to remove certain easement requirements under the conservation reserve program, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-05-21 | 1992-07-22 | Became Public Law No: 102-324. | Senate | Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] | VT | D | L000174 | 0 | Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to eliminate certain "useful life" easement requirements under the conservation reserve program. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-sjres-311 | 102 | sjres | 311 | A joint resolution designating February 21, 1993, through February 27, 1993, as "American Wine Appreciation Week", and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-05-21 | 1992-05-21 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Seymour, John [R-CA] | CA | R | S000269 | 51 | Designates February 21 through February 27, 1993, as American Wine Appreciation Week. Commends the winegrape and fruit growers and vintners of the United States for the production of high quality agricultural products. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-sres-303 | 102 | sres | 303 | A resolution to express the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture should conduct a study of options for implementing universal-type school lunch and breakfast programs. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-05-21 | 1992-07-02 | Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment and an amended preamble by Voice Vote. | Senate | Sen. Mitchell, George J. [D-ME] | ME | D | M000811 | 6 | Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture should study options for implementing universal-type (nonincome-based Federal reimbursement) school lunch and breakfast programs that include assessment of: (1) administrative structure; (2) nutrition education; (3) increased school participation; (4) funding options; (5) a la carte food policy; (6) administrative cost savings; and (7) necessary legislative action. Directs the Secretary to include a study report, with a specified final report, required by the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-s-2752 | 102 | s | 2752 | REFORM Commission Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-05-20 | 1992-06-24 | Committee on Agriculture requested executive comment from Department of Agriculture. | Senate | Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] | VT | D | L000174 | 7 | REFORM Commission Act of 1992 - Establishes a Reorganization for Efficient Field Office Reduction and Management Commission to review the Department of Agriculture's field structure. | 2025-08-26T15:16:28Z | |
| 102-s-2759 | 102 | s | 2759 | Child Nutrition Amendments of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-05-20 | 1992-08-14 | Became Public Law No: 102-342. | Senate | Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] | VT | D | L000174 | 3 | Child Nutrition Amendments of 1992 - Title I: Nutrition Improvement for Homeless Children - Amends the National School Lunch Act (NSLA) to revise provisions for demonstration projects for food service for homeless children under the age of six in emergency shelters. Includes State, city, local, or county governments, and other public bodies (as well as private nonprofit organizations) among the entities which may participate in such projects. Provides that such projects shall receive reimbursement payments for meals and supplements served on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays (in addition to payments for weekdays) at the request of the project sponsor. Allows specified meal pattern requirements to be modified as necessary by the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to take into account the needs of infants. Increases the minimum amounts which the Secretary is required to expend for such projects in FY 1993 and 1994. Directs the Secretary to advise each State of: (1) the availability of such projects for States, cities, counties, local governments, and other public bodies; and (2) application procedures for project participation. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct other demonstration projects to identify other effective means of providing food assistance to homeless children residing in temporary shelters. Prohibits using specified funds (which are to be used to provide food service for homeless children under age six in emergency shelters) for such demonstration projects. Title II: Breastfeeding Promotion and Improvement of Other Child Nutrition Programs - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a breastfeeding promotion program. Amends NSLA to allow, for purposes of determining a for-profit child care center's eligibility under the Child and Adult Care Food Program, consideration of such center's licensed capacity (if that capacity is less than its total of enrolled children) in the formula for determining whether it reaches the threshold eligibili… | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 102-s-2760 | 102 | s | 2760 | Child Nutrition Improvements Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-05-20 | 1992-06-01 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | Senate | Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] | VT | D | L000174 | 2 | Child Nutrition Improvements Act of 1992 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, from amounts received in the form of gifts, bequests, and devises, to establish a program to promote breastfeeding as the best method of infant nutrition. Amends the National School Lunch Act to: (1) revise the definition of the term "institution"; and (2) extend two pilot projects under which for-profit organizations providing day care qualify under a child care and adult food program. | 2025-08-26T15:17:58Z | |
| 102-s-2761 | 102 | s | 2761 | WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-05-20 | 1992-05-21 | Message on Senate action sent to the House. | Senate | Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] | VT | D | L000174 | 4 | WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Act of 1992 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to revise and extend the authorization of appropriations through FY 1994 for the special supplemental food (WIC) farmers' market program. Makes funds available for additional State participation. | 2025-08-26T15:15:58Z | |
| 102-s-2735 | 102 | s | 2735 | A bill to establish a national research program to improve the production and marketing of sweetpotatoes and increase the consumption and use of sweetpotatoes by domestic and foreign consumers. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-05-19 | 1992-07-31 | Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Research, Gen. Leg. | Senate | Sen. Johnston, J. Bennett [D-LA] | LA | D | J000189 | 6 | Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Agricultural Research Service, to make sweet potato research grants to land-grant colleges and universities. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-hr-5184 | 102 | hr | 5184 | To equalize the minimum adjustments to prices for fluid milk under milk marketing orders, to establish a solids content of beverage milk, and to provide for a manufacturing allowance for milk under the milk price support program. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-05-14 | 1992-05-19 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry. | House | Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7] | MN | D | P000258 | 0 | Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to equalize the adjustment price for fluid milk in all marketing areas. (Establishes a $2.50 per hundredweight minimum.) Establishes marketing order milk solid percentages for whole, lowfat, and skim milk. Authorizes Federal retail milk testing. Requires State marketing order compliance. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish minimum manufacturing allowances for milk manufactured into: (1) butter and nonfat dry milk; and (2) cheese. | 2025-03-21T14:53:55Z | |
| 102-hr-5079 | 102 | hr | 5079 | Agricultural Market Promotion Program Amendments Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-05-06 | 1992-05-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture. | House | Rep. Kostmayer, Peter H. [D-PA-8] | PA | D | K000319 | 11 | Agricultural Market Promotion Program Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to make a private brand product processed in whole or in part in the United States and composed in whole or in part of U.S. agricultural commodities eligible for market promotion assistance. Sets forth related marketing plan requirements. Requires an eligible trade organization to establish per country market penetration goals. Limits per country promotion assistance to the attainment of such goal. | 2025-08-26T15:13:43Z | |
| 102-s-2660 | 102 | s | 2660 | Agricultural Market Promotion Program Amendments Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-05-06 | 1992-07-31 | Referred to Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing. | Senate | Sen. Wofford, Harris [D-PA] | PA | D | W000665 | 2 | Agricultural Market Promotion Program Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to make a private brand product processed in whole or in part in the United States and composed in whole or in part of U.S. agricultural commodities eligible for market promotion assistance. Sets forth related marketing plan requirements. Requires an eligible trade organization to establish per country market penetration goals. Limits per country promotion assistance to the attainment of such goal. | 2025-08-26T15:17:02Z | |
| 102-s-2646 | 102 | s | 2646 | Electric Financing Amendments Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-04-30 | 1992-07-31 | Referred to Subcommittee on Rural Development, Electrification. | Senate | Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN] | IN | R | L000504 | 9 | Electric Financing Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to: (1) limit the amount of capital that a rural electric cooperative can have and still receive a Rural Electrification Administration (REA) guaranteed loan; (2) require REA to provide lien accommodations for private loans on an equal and pro rata basis to the REA-held loan (unless such additional private debt will adversely affect the borrower's ability to repay the REA); and (3) authorize discounted REA loan repayment under specified conditions. | 2025-08-26T15:13:38Z | |
| 102-hr-5012 | 102 | hr | 5012 | To extend emergency crop loss assistance to agricultural producers who suffered crop losses in 1991 and 1992 due to infestations of sweetpotato whitefly and to authorize research to minimize or prevent future infestations. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-04-29 | 1992-05-01 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development. | House | Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36] | CA | D | B000918 | 25 | Extends emergency crop loss assistance to producers who lost crops during the period July 1, 1991, to April 15, 1992, to infestations of sweetpotato whitefly. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide specified funds to the Cooperative State Research Service for expanded research on sweetpotato whitefly control. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-hr-4906 | 102 | hr | 4906 | Agricultural Credit Improvement Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-04-09 | 1992-10-08 | Message on Senate action sent to the House. | House | Rep. English, Glenn [D-OK-6] | OK | D | E000184 | 6 | Agricultural Credit Improvement Act of 1992 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to state that the interest rate for loans sold into the secondary market may be lower than the interest rate on the retained portion, but may not exceed the average interest rate charged by the lender on loans made to farm and ranch borrowers. Provides for Federal-State coordination of assistance for beginning farmers and ranchers. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to establish an Advisory Committee on Beginning Farmers and Ranchers. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for rural passenger transportation services or facilities. Directs the Secretary to establish within the farm ownership loan program a ten-year down payment loan program for beginning farmers and ranchers. Sets forth loan terms. Limits the availability of certain agricultural loans and guarantees to beginning farmers and ranchers during specified applicable periods. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program of assistance (ten-year maximum) for beginning farmers and ranchers. Requires an applicant to submit a farm operations plan (plan) to the appropriate county committee, which must be approved by the committee and then by the Secretary of Agriculture. Provides assistance in the form of operation and equipment loan guarantees. Gives applicants priority for equipment purchases in the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) inventory. Terminates assistance for avoidable failure to achieve plan goals. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a program to encourage borrowers with operating loans or guarantees to graduate to private commercial credit sources; and (2) provide for the graduation of FmHA direct loan borrowers to FmHA guaranteed loans. Extends: (1) loan service program consideration under extraordinary circumstances; and (2) the time period during which county committee loan eligibility certification remains in effect. Sets forth provisions for processing farm operating loan applications. Requires the Secr… | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-hr-4774 | 102 | hr | 4774 | To provide flexibility to the Secretary of Agriculture to carryout food assistance programs in certain countries. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-04-07 | 1992-05-20 | Became Public Law No: 102-289. | House | Rep. Rose, Charlie [D-NC-7] | NC | D | R000436 | 3 | Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to permit the expenditure of foreign currency commodity-sale proceeds in a country other than the country of origin if such proceeds are in a currency generally accepted in such other country. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-hr-4784 | 102 | hr | 4784 | Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-04-07 | 1992-04-10 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Glickman, Dan [D-KS-4] | KS | D | G000240 | 3 | Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1992 - Establishes in the Department of Agriculture (Department) the Farm Services Administration to consolidate farmer service programs, field offices, and specified Department agencies. Authorizes the transfer of appropriate programs to the Rural Development Administration. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) reduce Department headquarters personnel (with priority given to attrition rather than reductions-in-force); and (2) establish a centralized data system within the Farm Services Administration, including paperwork reduction and simpler program applications. Reorganizes the local and county committee system. Expresses the sense of the Congress in favor of farm program simplification. | 2025-08-26T15:13:36Z | |
| 102-s-2535 | 102 | s | 2535 | A bill to amend the National School Lunch Act to modify the minimum nutritional requirements for school lunches, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-04-07 | 1992-07-31 | Referred to Subcommittee on Nutrition and Investigations. | Senate | Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | I000025 | 1 | Amends the National School Lunch Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary), in prescribing minimum nutritional requirements for lunches served by schools participating in the school lunch program, to: (1) consider as having met such requirements any lunches that are consistent with current Dietary Guidelines for Americans published by the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services; (2) use the nutritive value of foods, rather than food components, in defining school lunch patterns; and (3) encourage use of locally produced foods. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-s-2538 | 102 | s | 2538 | Consumer Seafood Safety Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-04-07 | 1992-06-30 | Subcommittee on National Ocean Policy Study. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 102-927. | Senate | Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC] | SC | D | H000725 | 7 | Consumer Seafood Safety Act of 1992 - Deems unsafe for human consumption fish products: (1) containing a contaminant exceeding a tolerance; (2) derived from fish harvested from a closed area; (3) processed, handled, stored, or transported in violation of standards; or (4) which are shellfish and are grown or harvested in a State without an approved program or in an uncertified foreign nation, harvested from an unclassified and unmonitored area, or transported or held for transport by a person not on a specified list. Title I: National Seafood Safety Program - Mandates: (1) a national program for seafood safety; and (2) a handbook of Federal regulations and guidelines on seafood safety. Mandates a national shellfish safety program to protect against hazards to human health from the consumption of shellfish, including certain standards, procedures, and requirements regarding growing, harvesting, handling, processing, and shipping shellfish, actual and potential growing and harvesting area water quality, closure of such areas, and tracing of shellfish in commerce. Provides for State shellfish safety programs, approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in shellfish-producing States. Authorizes grants to States with approved programs for a portion of operating costs. Mandates publication of a list of shellfish shippers certified by a State or a foreign nation. Requires establishment of tolerances for contaminants that may render fish products injurious to health. Allows the tolerances to include indicators and requires taking into account other sources of exposure to a contaminant. Prohibits considering a product adulterated, under specified provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), if the product meets the tolerance established under this Act. Amends the FDCA to define "added substance." Mandates, for waters under Federal jurisdiction seaward of the inner boundary of the Exclusive Economic Zone, identification, classification, and monitoring of fish and shellfish growing and ha… | 2025-08-26T15:16:17Z | |
| 102-hr-4753 | 102 | hr | 4753 | To amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to eliminate the requirement that central station service be unavailable in the case of rural electrification loans. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-04-02 | 1992-04-07 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development. | House | Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large] | AS | D | F000010 | 0 | Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to repeal the requirement that central station service be unavailable in order to receive a rural electrification loan. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-hconres-302 | 102 | hconres | 302 | Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding communities making the transition to "Hunger-Free" status. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-04-01 | 1992-10-09 | Message on Senate action sent to the House. | House | Rep. Hall, Tony P. [D-OH-3] | OH | D | H000074 | 3 | Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding community efforts to coordinate and deliver food resources and services to needy residents. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 102-hr-4600 | 102 | hr | 4600 | To eliminate the tobacco price support program. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-03-26 | 1992-03-31 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Peanuts and Tobacco. | House | Rep. Santorum, Rick [R-PA-18] | PA | R | S000059 | 6 | Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to repeal the tobacco price support program. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal the tobacco marketing quota program. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-hr-4601 | 102 | hr | 4601 | To provide for an annual disaster assistance program for agricultural producers in lieu of crop insurance provided through the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-03-26 | 1992-04-01 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Wheat, Soybeans, and Feed Grains. | House | Rep. Santorum, Rick [R-PA-18] | PA | R | S000059 | 4 | Repeals the Federal Crop Insurance Act. Replaces crop insurance payments with an annual disaster assistance program based upon specified levels of producer deficiencies and county yields. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-hr-4602 | 102 | hr | 4602 | To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to strengthen payment limitations on the total amount of deficiency payments that may be made to a person under commodity programs and to restrict eligibility for participation in such programs. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-03-26 | 1992-03-26 | Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Santorum, Rick [R-PA-18] | PA | R | S000059 | 4 | Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 with regard to wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice deficiency and land diversion payments to: (1) reduce total annual assistance levels; (2) reduce the number of certain related entities that may receive payments; and (3) establish maximum adjusted gross income levels and commodity sales limitations for payment eligibility purposes. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-hr-4603 | 102 | hr | 4603 | To amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to reduce the number of payment acres used for the calculation of deficiency payments for program crops. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-03-26 | 1992-03-30 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Wheat, Soybeans, and Feed Grains. | House | Rep. Santorum, Rick [R-PA-18] | PA | R | S000059 | 3 | Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to reduce the payment acreage used in the calculation of wheat, feed grain, upland cotton, and rice deficiency payments. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-hr-4604 | 102 | hr | 4604 | To amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to lower the target price of program crops in commodity programs operated by the Department of Agriculture. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-03-26 | 1992-03-30 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Cotton, Rice, and Sugar. | House | Rep. Santorum, Rick [R-PA-18] | PA | R | S000059 | 5 | Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to reduce target prices for wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice beginning with the 1993 crop year. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-hr-4605 | 102 | hr | 4605 | To reduce the loan subsidies available from the Rural Electrification Administration, and to require such administration, in providing loan guarantees, to charge a fee equal to 1 percent of the amounts guaranteed. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-03-26 | 1992-03-30 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development. | House | Rep. Santorum, Rick [R-PA-18] | PA | R | S000059 | 2 | Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to: (1) set interest rates on Rural Electrification Administration loans at specified Treasury obligation levels; and (2) establish a one-percent loan guarantee fee. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | |
| 102-hr-4531 | 102 | hr | 4531 | To require the Secretary of Agriculture to include rice in the definition of supplemental foods for purposes of the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children under section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-03-20 | 1992-04-16 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education. | House | Rep. Espy, Mike [D-MS-2] | MS | D | E000218 | 5 | Includes rice in the definition of supplemental foods for purposes of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 102-s-2367 | 102 | s | 2367 | A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to remove the requirement that the Secretary of Agriculture charge a loan origination for a crop of oilseeds, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-03-18 | 1992-07-31 | Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Production. | Senate | Sen. Riegle, Donald W., Jr. [D-MI] | MI | D | R000249 | 9 | Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to: (1) repeal the oilseed loan origination fee provision; and (2) require oilseed loans to be repaid in the same fiscal year they are secured. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-sjres-272 | 102 | sjres | 272 | A joint resolution to proclaim March 20, 1992, as "National Agriculture Day". | Agriculture and Food | 1992-03-18 | 1992-03-20 | Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. | Senate | Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] | VT | D | L000174 | 58 | Designates March 20, 1992, as National Agriculture Day. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-s-2361 | 102 | s | 2361 | Expansion of Processed and High-Value Agricultural Exports and Employment Opportunities Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-03-17 | 1992-07-31 | Referred to Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing. | Senate | Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO] | MO | R | B000611 | 9 | Expansion of Processed and High-Value Agricultural Exports and Employment Opportunities Act of 1992 - Establishes: (1) export credit guarantee and enhancement program set-asides for processed and high-value agricultural products; and (2) related reporting requirements. | 2025-08-26T15:15:17Z | |
| 102-hr-4473 | 102 | hr | 4473 | Agricultural Market Promotion Program Amendments Act of 1992 | Agriculture and Food | 1992-03-16 | 1992-03-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture. | House | Rep. Kostmayer, Peter H. [D-PA-8] | PA | D | K000319 | 9 | Agricultural Market Promotion Program Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to make a private brand product processed entirely in the United States and composed in whole or in part of U.S. agricultural commodities eligible for market promotion assistance. Sets forth related marketing plan requirements. Requires an eligible trade organization to establish per country market penetration goals. Limits per country promotion assistance to the attainment of such goal. | 2025-08-26T15:18:26Z | |
| 102-s-2324 | 102 | s | 2324 | A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to make a technical correction relating to exclusions from income under the food stamp program, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1992-03-05 | 1992-03-26 | Became Public Law No: 102-265. | Senate | Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] | VT | D | L000174 | 1 | Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to include blind Social Security recipients among those persons whose benefits are allocated to self-support accounts and not considered income for food stamp eligibility purposes. | 2021-09-25T05:34:37Z |
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