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| 108-s-3009 | 108 | s | 3009 | National Food and Agricultural Science Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-11-19 | 2004-11-19 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR 11/20/2004 S11642-11643) | Senate | Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO] | MO | R | B000611 | 3 | National Food and Agricultural Science Act of 2004 - Establishes: (1) in the National Science Foundation a Division of Food and Agricultural Science, which shall be administered by a Director of Food and Agricultural Science; and (2) in the Division a Standing Council of Advisors. States that the Division's sole function shall be to award grants to promote complementary, fundamental agricultural research to: (1) individual scientists; (2) single and multi-institutional research centers; and (3) private and public sector entities, including the Department of Agriculture, the Foundation, or other Federal agencies. | 2023-01-14T22:48:30Z | |
| 108-s-2987 | 108 | s | 2987 | A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to expand the country of origin labeling for certain covered commodities, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-11-16 | 2004-11-16 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT] | MT | R | B001126 | 5 | Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 with respect to country of origin labeling provisions to: (1) include as a covered commodity ground and muscle cuts of beef, lamb, and pork as a processed food ingredient; and (2) make country of origin provisions applicable to retail sales as of September 30, 2005. | 2023-01-14T22:48:30Z | |
| 108-sres-465 | 108 | sres | 465 | A resolution to instruct conferees to the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and related agencies appropriations bill, 2005 or on a consolidated appropriations measure that includes the substance of that act. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-10-11 | 2004-10-11 | Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11229; text as passed Senate: CR S11229; text of measure as introduced: CR S11310) | Senate | Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] | IA | D | H000206 | 0 | (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) States that, for the purpose of restoring the provisions governing the conservation security program to those enacted in the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act and restoring the practice of treating agricultural disaster assistance as emergency spending, the Senate instructs conferees to the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2005, or a Consolidated Appropriations Measure that includes the substance of that Act, to insist that the conference report contain legislative language striking subsections (e) and (f) of section 101 of division B of H.R. 4837. | 2021-09-29T22:08:29Z | |
| 108-sres-454 | 108 | sres | 454 | A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the 108th Congress should provide the necessary funds to make disaster assistance available for all customarily eligible agricultural producers as emergency spending and not funded by cuts to the farm bill. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-10-09 | 2004-10-09 | Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Yea-Nay. 71 - 14. Record Vote Number: 209. (consideration: CR S10926-10928; text as passed Senate: CR S10927; text of measure as introduced: CR S10990) | Senate | Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] | IA | D | H000206 | 1 | (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the 108th Congress should provide the necessary funds to make disaster assistance available for all customarily eligible agricultural producers as emergency spending and not funded by cuts to the farm bill. | 2021-09-29T22:08:28Z | |
| 108-s-2965 | 108 | s | 2965 | A bill to amend the Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 1999 to modify the termination date for mandatory price reporting. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-10-08 | 2004-12-03 | Became Public Law No: 108-444. | Senate | Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS] | MS | R | C000567 | 1 | (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Amends the Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 1999 to extend the termination date of such Act's mandatory beef and swine reporting and related authorities to September 30, 2005. | 2023-01-14T22:48:34Z | |
| 108-hr-5259 | 108 | hr | 5259 | Safe Food Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-10-07 | 2004-10-08 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. | House | Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3] | CT | D | D000216 | 4 | Safe Food Act of 2004 - Establishes the Food Safety Administration to administer and enforce food safety laws. Directs the Administrator of the Food Safety Administration to: (1) promulgate regulations to ensure the security of the food supply from all forms of contamination; (2) implement Federal food safety inspection, enforcement, and research efforts to protect the public health; (3) develop consistent and science-based standards for safe food; (4) coordinate and prioritize food safety research and education programs with other Federal agencies; (5) prioritize Federal food safety efforts and deployment of resources to achieve the greatest possible benefit in reducing food-borne illness; (6) coordinate the Federal response to food-borne illness outbreaks with other Federal and State agencies; and (7) integrate Federal food safety activities with State and local agencies. Transfers to the Administration all functions of specified Federal agencies that relate to the administration or enforcement of food safety laws, including (1) the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture; and (2) the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and the Center for Veterinary Medicine of the Food and Drug Administration. Requires the Administrator to: (1) administer a national food safety program based on an analysis of the hazards associated with different food and the processing of different food; (2) establish standards for processors of food and food establishments; (3) establish a certification system for foreign governments or food establishments seeking to import food to the United States; (4) establish requirements for tracing food and food producing animals from point of origin to retail sale; (5) maintain an active surveillance system of food, food products, and epidemiological evidence; (6) establish a sampling system to monitor contaminants in food; (7) rank and analyze hazards in the food supply; (8) establish a national public education campaign on food safety; and (9) conduct research r… | 2023-01-14T22:48:41Z | |
| 108-s-2910 | 108 | s | 2910 | Safe Food Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-10-07 | 2004-10-07 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] | IL | D | D000563 | 0 | Safe Food Act of 2004 - Establishes the Food Safety Administration to administer and enforce food safety laws. Directs the Administrator of the Food Safety Administration to: (1) promulgate regulations to ensure the security of the food supply from all forms of contamination; (2) implement Federal food safety inspection, enforcement, and research efforts to protect the public health; (3) develop consistent and science-based standards for safe food; (4) coordinate and prioritize food safety research and education programs with other Federal agencies; (5) prioritize Federal food safety efforts and deployment of resources to achieve the greatest possible benefit in reducing food-borne illness; (6) coordinate the Federal response to food-borne illness outbreaks with other Federal and State agencies; and (7) integrate Federal food safety activities with State and local agencies. Transfers to the Administration all functions of specified Federal agencies that relate to the administration or enforcement of food safety laws, including (1) the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture; and (2) the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and the Center for Veterinary Medicine of the Food and Drug Administration. Requires the Administrator to: (1) administer a national food safety program based on an analysis of the hazards associated with different food and the processing of different food; (2) establish standards for processors of food and food establishments; (3) establish a certification system for foreign governments or food establishments seeking to import food to the United States; (4) establish requirements for tracing food and food producing animals from point of origin to retail sale; (5) maintain an active surveillance system of food, food products, and epidemiological evidence; (6) establish a sampling system to monitor contaminants in food; (7) rank and analyze hazards in the food supply; (8) establish a national public education campaign on food safety; and (9) conduct research r… | 2023-01-14T22:48:36Z | |
| 108-hconres-510 | 108 | hconres | 510 | Expressing the sense of the Congress on the importance of revitalizing family farming. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-10-06 | 2004-10-06 | Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14] | OH | R | L000553 | 1 | Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States must commit all necessary resources and policies to encourage growth in the number of family farms. | 2023-01-14T22:48:44Z | |
| 108-hr-5226 | 108 | hr | 5226 | To respond to recent natural disasters adversely affecting agricultural producers. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-10-06 | 2004-10-06 | Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Neugebauer, Randy [R-TX-19] | TX | R | N000182 | 16 | Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency financial assistance to agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2003 or 2004 crop losses due to weather or related conditions. Permits producers with qualifying losses in both years to elect to receive payments in either, but not both, of such years. Makes producers ineligible for crop disaster assistance if they did not: (1) get Federal crop insurance for insurable commodities; and (2) file required paperwork and pay related fees for noninsurable commodities. Sets forth: (1) waiver provisions; and (2) payment limitations, including reductions for amounts received under the Florida Disaster Programs. Directs the Secretary to provide payments to livestock producers who have incurred 2003 or 2004 losses in an emergency-designated county, with discretionary set-asides for the American Indian livestock program. Permits producers with qualifying losses in both years to elect to receive payments in either, but not both, of such years. Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to commercial orchardists and tree farmers who have suffered losses during the December 1, 2003 through December 31, 2004 period. Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to emergency conservation program participants. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to limit Commodity Credit Corporation amounts available for the conservation security program for FY 2005 through 2014. | 2023-01-14T22:48:42Z | |
| 108-hr-5229 | 108 | hr | 5229 | To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to provide for automatic eligibility for free school lunch and breakfast programs to children of parents who are enlisted members of the Armed Forces on active duty. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-10-06 | 2004-10-06 | Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. | House | Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43] | CA | D | B001234 | 6 | Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to provide for automatic eligibility for free school lunch and breakfast programs for children of enlisted members of the Armed Forces on active duty or of the National Guard on active duty. Provides that such amendment shall cease to have effect two years after enactment of this Act. | 2023-01-14T22:48:42Z | |
| 108-s-2902 | 108 | s | 2902 | Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-10-06 | 2004-10-06 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID] | ID | R | C000858 | 4 | Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 - Defines "specialty crop" as each U.S. agricultural crop other than wheat, feed grains, oilseeds, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, and tobacco. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to provide for marketing order specialty crop food safety programs. Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to: (1) increase assistance for the tree assistance program; (2) provide for increased fruit, vegetable, and specialty crop purchases; and (3) increase and extend specialty crop technical assistance. Authorizes appropriations for maintenance of the Agricultural Marketing Service inspection training center in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Makes grants to enhance specialty crop competitiveness. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to obligate funds for specialty crop operating loans. Provides for: (1) the study of the extent to which U.S. specialty crops have or have not benefited from any reductions of foreign trade barriers; and (2) a foreign market access strategy plan based on such study. Establishes a division in the Department of Agriculture to process petitions for reducing sanitary and phytosanitary export barriers and an office to develop and protect intellectual property rights in plants and plant materials. Amends Federal patent law to define "essentially derived plant." Provides for specified additional research initiatives. Establishes a fund to support emergency eradication and research activities. Provides for independent scientific advice and peer review with regard to specialty crop import and export requests. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to remove the income limitation from the environmental quality incentives program. Addresses the development of voluntary sustainable practices guidelines for producers and processors of specialty crops. | 2023-01-14T22:48:36Z | |
| 108-hr-5203 | 108 | hr | 5203 | Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-10-04 | 2004-10-04 | Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Stenholm, Charles W. [D-TX-17] | TX | D | S000851 | 45 | Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency financial assistance to agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2003 or 2004 crop losses due to weather or related conditions. Permits producers with qualifying losses in both years to elect to receive payments in either, but not both, of such years. Makes producers ineligible for crop disaster assistance if they did not: (1) get Federal crop insurance for insurable commodities; and (2) file required paperwork and pay related fees for noninsurable commodities. Sets forth waiver provisions. Reduces payments for amounts received under a specified crop loss program announced in 2004. Directs the Secretary to provide payments to livestock producers who have incurred 2003 or 2004 losses in an emergency-designated county, with discretionary set-asides for the American Indian livestock program. Permits producers with qualifying losses in both years to elect to receive payments in either, but not both, of such years. Directs the Secretary to provide assistance under the tree assistance program to tree farmers who have suffered losses during the 2003-2004 winter. | 2023-01-14T22:48:43Z | |
| 108-hr-5180 | 108 | hr | 5180 | To extend the authority of the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 through October 22, 2005. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-09-29 | 2004-10-12 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture. | House | Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7] | MN | D | P000258 | 1 | Amends the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 to extend such Act's authority through October 22, 2005 (currently October 22, 2004). | 2023-01-13T22:01:44Z | |
| 108-s-2859 | 108 | s | 2859 | Natural Stock Conservation Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-09-29 | 2004-09-29 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9939-9940) | Senate | Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK] | AK | R | M001153 | 0 | Natural Stock Conservation Act of 2004 - Amends the National Aquaculture Act of 1980 to prohibit specified agencies with aquaculture regulatory jurisdiction from issuing permits for marine aquaculture facilities in the exclusive economic zone until requirements for such permits are enacted into law. | 2023-01-14T22:48:45Z | |
| 108-s-2866 | 108 | s | 2866 | Commodity Assessment, Protection, and Reform Act | Agriculture and Food | 2004-09-29 | 2004-11-24 | Message on Senate action sent to the House. | Senate | Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK] | OK | R | I000024 | 10 | (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Commodity Assessment, Protection, and Reform Act - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to collect commodity assessments from the proceeds of a marketing assistance loan made in accordance with an agreement between the Secretary and a State. Defines "assessment " as funds that are: (1) collected with respect to a specific commodity; (2) paid by the first purchaser of the commodity; and (3) not collected through a tax or other revenue collection activity of a State. | 2023-01-14T22:48:31Z | |
| 108-s-2851 | 108 | s | 2851 | A bill to amend the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to establish certain conditions under which a Farm Credit System institution can terminate its status as a System institution. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-09-28 | 2004-09-28 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9814) | Senate | Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD] | SD | D | D000064 | 1 | Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 with respect to the termination of a Farm Credit System institution's participant status to require the Farm Credit Administration to: (1) hold public hearings in the affected States; and (2) not approve or disapprove the termination plan until at least 180 days after its submission. | 2023-01-14T22:48:45Z | |
| 108-s-2856 | 108 | s | 2856 | A bill to limit the transfer of certain Commodity Credit Coporation funds between conservation programs for technical assistance for the programs. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-09-28 | 2004-12-23 | Became Public Law No: 108-498. | Senate | Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS] | MS | R | C000567 | 2 | (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate passed version is repeated here.) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to: (1) make certain Commodity Credit Corporation technical assistance funding available for producers and landowners participating in specified agricultural conservation programs; and (2) limit such funding only to the program for which it was made available. | 2023-01-14T22:48:37Z | |
| 108-hr-5120 | 108 | hr | 5120 | U.S. National Arboretum Appreciation Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-09-22 | 2004-09-30 | Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. | House | Rep. Dooley, Calvin M. [D-CA-20] | CA | D | D000424 | 2 | U.S. National Arboretum Appreciation Act of 2004 - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a contract with the Friends of the National Arboretum, either through a sole-source contract or other method, to authorize the Friends of the National Arboretum to act as agent of the Department of Agriculture to: (1) allow the use of the grounds and facilities of the National Arboretum by private persons and entities; (2) provide services related to planning and overseeing special events there; and (3) make such other arrangements as appropriate for its private use. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with other persons or entities for private use of such grounds and facilities so long as the contracts do not conflict with the contract with the Friends of the National Arboretum. | 2023-01-13T22:01:46Z | |
| 108-hr-5106 | 108 | hr | 5106 | To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to expand the Agricultural Management Assistance Program to include the State of Hawaii. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-09-21 | 2004-10-12 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-2] | HI | D | C001055 | 0 | Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to include Hawaii in the agricultural management assistance program. | 2023-01-13T22:01:46Z | |
| 108-hr-4960 | 108 | hr | 4960 | To prohibit the anticipated extreme reduction in the national marketing quotas for the 2005 crop of Flue-cured and Burley tobacco, which, if permitted to occur, would mean economic ruin for tobacco farmers and their families. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-07-22 | 2004-08-02 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs. | House | Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3] | NC | R | J000255 | 0 | Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain the national marketing quota for 2005 Flue-cured and Burley tobacco at the 2004 level. Authorizes a producer-owned cooperative marketing association to fully settle a loan made for the 2005 crop of Flue-cured and Burley tobacco by forfeiting to the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) the tobacco covered by the loan regardless of its condition. Provides that: (1) any resultant CCC losses shall not be charged to the No Net Cost Tobacco Account, and shall not affect the amount of certain Flue-cured or Burley tobacco assessments; and (2) forfeited tobacco shall not be counted for the Flue-cured or Burley tobacco quota, nor sold for use in the United States, except that the CCC may market directly or through the use of U.S. leaf dealers such tobacco outside the United States. | 2023-01-14T22:48:21Z | |
| 108-hr-4987 | 108 | hr | 4987 | To provide for priority funding of water, waste disposal, and wastewater facility loans and grants and community facilities loans and grants for the communities in Burlington and Camden counties in New Jersey, affected by the flood which occurred on July 12, 2004. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-07-22 | 2004-07-30 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research. | House | Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3] | NJ | R | S000097 | 2 | Provides for priority funding of water, waste disposal, and wastewater facility loans and grants and community facilities loans and grants under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act for the communities in Burlington and Camden counties, New Jersey, affected by the flood of July 12, 2004. Sets forth grant rates. | 2023-01-14T22:48:20Z | |
| 108-hr-4874 | 108 | hr | 4874 | Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-07-20 | 2004-09-08 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Ross, Mike [D-AR-4] | AR | D | R000573 | 0 | Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use Commodity Credit Corporation funds for emergency financial assistance to producers who have suffered qualifying disaster-caused crop losses in 2004. Includes among covered crops livestock, fisheries, and trees from which a crop is harvested. | 2023-01-14T22:48:17Z | |
| 108-hr-4858 | 108 | hr | 4858 | Farmers Markets Infrastructure Assistance Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-07-19 | 2004-07-28 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research. | House | Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9] | OH | D | K000009 | 14 | Farmers Markets Infrastructure Assistance Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans, loan guarantees, and grants to eligible public agencies and nonprofit organizations for the construction of new farmers markets, or the improvement or rehabilitation of existing farmers markets. | 2023-01-14T22:48:17Z | |
| 108-hr-4800 | 108 | hr | 4800 | Specialty Crop and Value-Added Agriculture Promotion Act | Agriculture and Food | 2004-07-09 | 2004-08-25 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform. | House | Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5] | OR | D | H000762 | 0 | Specialty Crop and Value-Added Agriculture Promotion Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make annual State grants (based upon value of production) to enhance specialty crop competitiveness. Stipulates that such grants shall supplement and not replace State funds. Defines "specialty crop" as any crop other than wheat, feed grains, oilseeds, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, and tobacco. Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to replace the agricultural marketing resource center pilot project with a State block grant program for value-added agricultural product market development. Directs the Secretary to establish a quality standardization program for certification of farmers and processors under quality assurance systems, which shall include 50 percent reimbursement of participant certification costs. Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to direct the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out the adjusted gross revenue insurance pilot program as a permanent program. Authorizes the Corporation to: (1) expand the program to cover any county in which crops are produced; and (2) grant temporary policy subsidies for producers located in a county that has a high level of specialty crop production and has not had a high level of crop insurance coverage coverage. Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to direct the Secretary to: (1) make available to students in not more than 100 schools in each State, and in elementary and secondary schools on one Indian reservation, free fresh and dried fruits and vegetables throughout the school day in one or more school-designated areas; and (2) give priority to States that produce large quantities of specialty crops. | 2023-01-14T22:48:15Z | |
| 108-hr-4760 | 108 | hr | 4760 | DSHEA Full Implementation and Enforcement Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-07-06 | 2004-07-19 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. | House | Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5] | IN | R | B001149 | 1 | DSHEA Full Implementation and Enforcement Act of 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2005, and authorizes appropriations for FY 2005 through 2009: (1) to carry out the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), the amendments made by DSHEA, and all applicable regulatory requirements for dietary supplements under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; and (2) for expanded research and development of consumer information, including information on safety and beneficial effects, of dietary supplements by the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to: (1) fully and appropriately use such funds to regulate dietary supplements; and (2) report annually on DSHEA implementation and enforcement. | 2023-01-14T22:48:14Z | |
| 108-s-2609 | 108 | s | 2609 | A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend and improve national dairy market loss payments. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-07-06 | 2004-07-06 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN] | MN | R | C001057 | 8 | Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 with respect to national dairy market loss payments to: (1) extend, by two years, program sign-up and contract periods; and (2) double single dairy operation payment quantities. | 2023-01-14T22:48:22Z | |
| 108-hr-4727 | 108 | hr | 4727 | Market Access Program Elimination Act | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-25 | 2004-06-25 | Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1] | OH | R | C000266 | 0 | Market Access Program Elimination Act - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to repeal the market access program. | 2023-01-15T04:49:18Z | |
| 108-hr-4735 | 108 | hr | 4735 | To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make a grant to the World Food Prize Foundation to assist the Foundation in covering renovation expenses related to the World Food Prize, which is awarded to individuals who make vital contributions to improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food throughout the world. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-25 | 2004-07-07 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. | House | Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-4] | IA | R | L000111 | 4 | Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make a grant to the World Food Prize Foundation of Des Moines, Iowa, to assist the Foundation in covering renovation expenses related to its award of the World Food Prize, which honors individuals who make vital contributions to improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food throughout the world. | 2023-01-15T04:49:18Z | |
| 108-hr-4747 | 108 | hr | 4747 | Dietary Supplement Regulatory Implementation Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-25 | 2004-07-07 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. | House | Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6] | NJ | D | P000034 | 2 | Dietary Supplement Regulatory Implementation Act of 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2005, and authorizes appropriations for FY 2006 through 2009: (1) to carry out the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), the amendments made by DSHEA, and all applicable regulatory requirements for dietary supplements under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; and (2) for expanded research and development of consumer information, including information on safety and beneficial effects, of dietary supplements by the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to: (1) fully and appropriately use such funds to regulate dietary supplements; (2) report annually on DSHEA implementation and enforcement; (3) carry out programs to educate health professionals and consumers on the safety and health benefits of the dietary supplements, including the potential for interactions of dietary supplements and drugs (using specified funds authorized by this Act); and (4) establish a system for the requirements for the reporting of serious adverse experiences associated with the use of a dietary supplement received by the manufacturer, packer, or distributor whose name appears on the label of the product. Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding dietary supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids. | 2023-01-15T04:49:18Z | |
| 108-hr-4693 | 108 | hr | 4693 | Seed Availability and Competition Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-24 | 2004-07-07 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research. | House | Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9] | OH | D | K000009 | 1 | Seed Availability and Competition Act of 2004 - Requires persons who seek to retain seed harvested from the planting of patented seeds to register with the Secretary of Agriculture and pay related fees. Establishes in the Treasury the Patented Seed Fund. Imposes a tariff equal to the difference in fees in any case in which: (1) genetically modified seed on which royalties or licensing or other fees are charged by the patent owner to U.S. purchasers is exported, and (2) no such fees, or lesser fee amounts, are charged to foreign purchasers of the exported seed. | 2023-01-15T04:49:17Z | |
| 108-hr-4696 | 108 | hr | 4696 | To promote the use of anaerobic digesters by agricultural producers and rural small businesses to produce renewable energy and improve environmental quality. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-24 | 2004-07-07 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. | House | Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23] | NY | R | M000472 | 0 | Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans, loan guarantees, and grants to farmers, ranchers, and rural small businesses to promote the use of anaerobic digesters to produce renewable energy. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to include the establishment of anaerobic digesters in the list of structural practices recognized under the environmental quality incentives program for agriculture. | 2023-01-15T04:49:17Z | |
| 108-hr-4702 | 108 | hr | 4702 | To require farmers to be offered supplemental crop insurance based on an area yield and loss plan of insurance. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-24 | 2004-07-08 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Neugebauer, Randy [R-TX-19] | TX | R | N000182 | 5 | Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to require farmers to be offered supplemental crop insurance based on an area yield and loss plan of insurance. | 2023-01-15T04:49:16Z | |
| 108-hr-4705 | 108 | hr | 4705 | Agricultural Assistance Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-24 | 2004-07-08 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large] | ND | D | P000422 | 1 | Agricultural Assistance Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide: (1) emergency financial assistance to agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2004 crop losses due to weather or related conditions; and (2) payments to livestock producers who have incurred 2004 losses in an emergency- or disaster-designated county. Sets forth crop payment rate and eligibility provisions. | 2023-01-15T04:49:16Z | |
| 108-s-2583 | 108 | s | 2583 | A bill to promote the use of anaerobic digesters by agricultural producers and rural small businesses to produce renewable energy and improve environmental quality. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-24 | 2004-06-24 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] | NY | D | C001041 | 0 | Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans, loan guarantees, and grants to farmers, ranchers, and rural small businesses to promote the use of anaerobic digesters to produce renewable energy. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to include the establishment of anaerobic digesters in the list of structural practices recognized under the environmental quality incentives program for agriculture. | 2023-01-15T04:49:22Z | |
| 108-s-2592 | 108 | s | 2592 | Agricultural Assistance Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-24 | 2004-06-24 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND] | ND | D | C000705 | 2 | Agricultural Assistance Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide: (1) emergency financial assistance to agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2004 crop losses due to weather or related conditions; and (2) payments to livestock producers who have incurred 2004 losses in an emergency- or disaster-designated county. Sets forth crop payment rate and eligibility provisions. | 2023-01-15T04:49:22Z | |
| 108-s-2565 | 108 | s | 2565 | Milk Price Forward Contracting Act | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-23 | 2004-06-23 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] | ID | R | C000880 | 8 | Milk Price Forward Contracting Act - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to convert the dairy forward pricing program from a pilot program to a permanent program. | 2023-01-15T04:49:23Z | |
| 108-hr-4620 | 108 | hr | 4620 | To confirm the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to collect approved State commodity assessments on behalf of the State from the proceeds of marketing assistance loans. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-18 | 2004-12-21 | Became Public Law No: 108-470. | House | Rep. Nethercutt, George R., Jr. [R-WA-5] | WA | R | N000051 | 16 | (This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on October 5, 2004. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to collect commodity assessments from the proceeds of a marketing assistance loan for a producer if the assessment is required to be paid by the producer or the first purchaser of a commodity pursuant to a State law or to an authority administered by the Secretary. Provides that such collection authority: (1) does not extend to a State tax or other State revenue activity; and (2) shall be made as specified in an agreement between the Secretary and the requesting State. | 2023-01-15T04:49:13Z | |
| 108-s-2546 | 108 | s | 2546 | Genetically Engineered Foods Act | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-17 | 2004-06-17 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR 6/18/2004 S7020-7023) | Senate | Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] | IL | D | D000563 | 0 | Genetically Engineered Foods Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require a producer to obtain pre-market approval before introducing any genetically engineered food into interstate commerce. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to set forth regulations governing the approval process, including requirements for the approval of split use food (defined as genetically engineered food that could be used by both humans and animals, but is not marketed to humans). Requires the Secretary to provide public notice, make the application and supporting material available to the public, and provide for public comment for genetically engineered foods and animals. Allows the Secretary to protect trade secrets under certain circumstances. Requires the Secretary to establish: (1) programs to conduct testing to detect the presence of genetically engineered ingredients in foods; (2) programs to monitor the safety of approved genetically engineered foods; and (3) a public registry of such foods. Requires genetically engineered animals and genetic engineering techniques intended to be used to produce animals to meet the same requirements for approval as new animal drugs. Requires the Secretary to conduct environmental assessments to evaluate the potential effects of such genetically engineered animals. Deems genetically engineered animals or foods that are not approved to be adulterated. Sets forth provisions for the approval of any genetic engineering technique or any genetically engineered food or animal that entered into interstate commerce before enactment of this Act. | 2023-01-15T04:49:22Z | |
| 108-hr-4597 | 108 | hr | 4597 | National Dairy Equity Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-16 | 2004-07-07 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. | House | Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26] | NY | R | R000569 | 24 | National Dairy Equity Act of 2004 - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to give producers in a State participating in the national dairy market loss payment program 60 days to decide whether to continue participating in such program or to participate in the program established under this Act. Establishes the following five regional dairy marketing areas: (1) Northeast region - Northeast Dairy Marketing Area (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont); (2) Southern region - Southern Dairy Marketing Area (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia); (3) Midwest region - Midwest Dairy Marketing Area (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin); (4) Intermountain region - Intermountain Dairy Marketing Area (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming) and (5) Pacific region - Pacific Dairy Marketing Area (Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington). Administers each region by a Regional Dairy Board. Sets forth Board powers, including authority to establish: (1) over-order price (a price higher than the marketing order or non-marketing area price) for Class I milk; (2) equalization pools to equalize over-order prices to producers throughout a regulated area; and (3) processor administrative fees. Requires producer referendum to approve of a proposed over-order price establishment, amendment, or termination. States that each covered processor that purchases Class I milk during a month that will be sold in the regulated area of a Region shall pay to the Secretary an amount equal to the product of the over-order premium and the quantity of purchased Class I milk. Establishes in the Treasury the National Dairy Producers Fund. Directs the Secreta… | 2023-01-15T04:49:14Z | |
| 108-s-2525 | 108 | s | 2525 | National Dairy Equity Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-16 | 2004-06-16 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA] | PA | R | S000709 | 9 | National Dairy Equity Act of 2004 - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to give producers in a State participating in the national dairy market loss payment program 60 days to decide whether to continue participating in such program or to participate in the program established under this Act. Establishes the following five regional dairy marketing areas: (1) Northeast region - Northeast Dairy Marketing Area (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont); (2) Southern region - Southern Dairy Marketing Area (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia); (3) Upper midwest region - Upper Midwest Dairy Marketing Area (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin); (4) Intermountain region - Intermountain Dairy Marketing Area (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming) and (5) Pacific region - Pacific Dairy Marketing Area (Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington). Administers each region by a Regional Dairy Board. Sets forth Board powers, including authority to establish: (1) over-order price (a price higher than the marketing order or non-marketing area price) for Class I milk; (2) equalization pools to equalize over-order prices to producers throughout a regulated area; and (3) processor administrative fees. Requires producer referendum to approve of a proposed over-order price establishment, amendment, or termination. States that each covered processor that purchases Class I milk during a month that will be sold in the regulated area of a Region shall pay to the Secretary an amount equal to the product of the over-order premium and the quantity of purchased Class I milk. Establishes in the Treasury the National Dairy Producers Fund. Directs… | 2023-01-15T09:32:49Z | |
| 108-hr-4576 | 108 | hr | 4576 | Food Promotion Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-15 | 2004-07-22 | Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote. | House | Rep. Goodlatte, Bob [R-VA-6] | VA | R | G000289 | 31 | Food Promotion Act of 2004 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing of 1946 to replace current mandatory country of origin labeling requirements with voluntary country of origin labeling programs for: (1) meat and meat products; (2) wild fish, wild shellfish, farm-raised fish, farm-raised shellfish, and related products; and (3) perishable agricultural commodities. Sets forth: (1) limitations on use of United States country of origin labels; and (2) civil penalties for program violations. | 2023-01-15T04:49:13Z | |
| 108-hr-4583 | 108 | hr | 4583 | To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to base the counter-cyclical payment rate for the 2003 crop year for producers whose farming operations are located in certain declared disaster areas on the total of the partial payments for that crop year. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-15 | 2004-07-08 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Rehberg, Dennis R. [R-MT-At Large] | MT | R | R000571 | 1 | Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to base the counter-cyclical payment rate for the 2003 crop year for producers whose farming operations are in certain disaster areas on the total of the partial payments, rather than the final payment rate, for that crop year. | 2023-01-15T04:49:15Z | |
| 108-s-2507 | 108 | s | 2507 | Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-07 | 2004-06-30 | Became Public Law No: 108-265. | Senate | Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS] | MS | R | C000567 | 1 | (This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on June 23, 2004. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NSLA) and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) to reauthorize various programs, including the national school lunch and breakfast, child and adult care food, after-school snack, summer food service, and special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC). Revises requirements relating to eligibility for and access to such programs. Title I: Amendments to Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act - (Sec. 101) Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to make payments to State agencies for nutrition promotion in child nutrition food service programs. Limits, for each fiscal year, the total amount of such payments to not more than one-half cent multiplied by the number of lunches reimbursed through the school lunch program, the child and adult care food program, and the summer food service program. Directs State agencies to use their allocation of such funds for payments to school food authorities (SFAs) and other child nutrition food service institutions to disseminate and use nutrition messages and materials. Authorizes State agencies to reserve certain amounts for specified purposes. (Sec. 102) Revises certain nutrition requirements. Requires schools to serve milk in a variety of fat contents. Permits substitute nutritionally-equivalent nondairy beverages to be reimbursable, if a note is provided from a medical authority or the child's parent or guardian. Prohibits schools or institutions participating in the school lunch program from restricting sale or marketing of fluid milk products by the school or a school-approved person at any time or place on the school premises or at any school-sponsored event. (Sec. 103) Directs the Secretary to ensure that States and SFAs administer school nutrition programs in a manner that reflects fo… | 2023-01-15T04:49:21Z | |
| 108-hr-4519 | 108 | hr | 4519 | Better Nutrition for School Children Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-06-04 | 2004-06-25 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform. | House | Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22] | NY | D | H000627 | 0 | Better Nutrition for School Children Act of 2004 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) to revise nutritional requirements for the school breakfast program under CNA and the school lunch program under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NSLA). Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to base regulations for the school breakfast and lunch programs on sound nutritional science.Authorizes the Secretary, through such Federal regulations, to prohibit the sale of certain competitive foods in food service facilities or areas during the time of school breakfast or school lunch program service (by eliminating a provision of current law that bars such regulations from prohibiting such sale of competitive foods approved by the Secretary during such time).Requires Federal regulations relating to service of foods in schools participating in the breakfast or lunch programs to apply throughout the entire school, including the school grounds, until the end of the time of service of food under the school lunch program.Directs the Secretary, in promulgating such regulations, to consider: (1) the nutritional needs of students in various grade levels; (2) the proximity of any area where foods of minimal nutritional value may be sold, donated, or served without charge to the food service facilities or areas; (3) the extent to which students will likely substitute consumption of foods of minimal nutritional value for other food served in participating schools; and (4) the benefits to a school of permitting the sale, donation, or service without charge of foods of minimal nutritional value, including the extent to which the proceeds of such sales inure to the benefit of a school or an organization of students approved by a school. | 2023-01-15T04:49:11Z | |
| 108-hr-4446 | 108 | hr | 4446 | To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to reform funding for the Seniors Farmers' Market Nutrition Program, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-05-20 | 2004-06-04 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. | House | Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9] | OH | D | K000009 | 23 | Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 with respect to the senior farmers' market nutrition program to: (1) increase program funding; (2) expand the program to include locally produced farm products as deemed appropriate by the Secretary of Agriculture; and (3) permit up to ten percent of program funds to be used for administrative costs. | 2023-01-15T04:49:03Z | |
| 108-hr-4456 | 108 | hr | 4456 | Ginseng Harvest Labeling Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-05-20 | 2004-05-20 | Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Ginseng Harvest Labeling Act of 2004 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require: (1) the labeling of raw ginseng offered for sale as food or a dietary supplement to contain country of harvest information; (2) ginseng importers to disclose country of harvest information at the point of U.S. entry. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to impose civil monetary penalties for failure to make such disclosures. | 2023-01-15T04:49:03Z | |
| 108-s-2451 | 108 | s | 2451 | A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to restore the application date for country of origin labeling. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-05-20 | 2004-05-21 | Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 538. | Senate | Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD] | SD | D | D000064 | 6 | Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to make retail-sale country of origin labeling provisions effective as of September 30, 2004 (currently September 30, 2006). | 2021-09-29T22:23:21Z | |
| 108-s-2452 | 108 | s | 2452 | Ginseng Harvest Labeling Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-05-20 | 2004-05-20 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5952) | Senate | Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] | WI | D | F000061 | 0 | Ginseng Harvest Labeling Act of 2004 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require: (1) the labeling of raw ginseng offered for sale as food or a dietary supplement to contain country of harvest information; (2) ginseng importers to disclose country of harvest information at the point of U.S. entry. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to impose civil monetary penalties for failure to make such disclosures. | 2023-01-15T04:49:06Z | |
| 108-s-2456 | 108 | s | 2456 | Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-05-20 | 2004-05-20 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT] | MT | D | B000243 | 0 | Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide: (1) emergency financial assistance to agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2003 and/or 2004 crop losses due to weather or related conditions; and (2) payments to livestock producers who have incurred 2003 and/or 2004 losses in an emergency-designated county, with set-asides for the American Indian livestock program. Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to involuntary conversion rules to: (1) permit the replacement of livestock with other farm property in the case of drought, flood, or other weather-related conditions (such provision currently applies only to cases of soil or other environmental contamination); and (2) extend the replacement period for livestock sold on account of weather related conditions. Allows an individual engaged in an eligible farming or commercial fishing business a deduction for any taxable year of up to 20 percent of taxable income attributable to the eligible farming or commercial fishing business paid in cash by the taxpayer to a Farm and Ranch Risk Management Account (FFARRM Account). Includes non-exempt FFARRM distributions in the taxpayer's gross income, and subjects to a special ten percent surtax distributions not made within five years of contribution. Prohibits FFARRM distributions from being used to overcapitalize any fishery. Establishes a tax on excess contributions, but exempts the taxpayer from the tax on certain prohibited transactions. | 2023-01-15T04:49:06Z | |
| 108-hr-4297 | 108 | hr | 4297 | To provide loan guarantees for renewable energy projects using biomass material. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-05-05 | 2004-05-13 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. | House | Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2] | ID | R | S001148 | 1 | Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to prescribe guidelines under which cost sharing limitations applicable to grants and loans to farmers, ranchers, and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements shall not apply to loan guarantees extended to specified projects if the loan will be used to: (1) purchase a renewable energy system associated with a commercial production agricultural enterprise; and (2) promote a solution to an environmental problem of the State in which the project will be implemented. Limits the principal amount of an eligible loan to between $50 million and $100 million. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, when making loan guarantees for such projects, to give priority to renewable energy projects that promote the production of an agricultural commodity that is imported into the United States. | 2023-01-15T04:48:59Z | |
| 108-hr-4223 | 108 | hr | 4223 | To require the Commodity Credit Corporation to support the development of a domestic casein and milk protein concentrate industry, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-04-27 | 2004-07-08 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21] | CA | R | N000181 | 11 | Directs the Commodity Credit Corporation to support the development of a casein and milk protein concentrate industry in the 48 contiguous States, under which the Corporation shall make payments to an entity that produces and markets dairy proteins produced from liquid skim milk. Excludes dairy protein sales for standardized cheese production from program payments. Defines "dairy proteins" as whey, whey protein concentrate, casein, or milk protein concentrate. | 2023-01-15T04:48:35Z | |
| 108-hr-4210 | 108 | hr | 4210 | To amend the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to support the commercial fishing industry. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-04-22 | 2004-04-26 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research. | House | Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2] | NJ | R | L000554 | 3 | Amends the Farm Credit Act to authorize Farm Credit Act of 1971 institutions to serve businesses that provide services related to the operating needs of producers and harvesters of aquatic products. | 2023-01-15T04:48:35Z | |
| 108-hr-4189 | 108 | hr | 4189 | Full Enrollment Environmental Quality Incentives Program (FEEQIP) Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-04-21 | 2004-04-23 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Lucas, Frank D. [R-OK-3] | OK | R | L000491 | 0 | Full Enrollment Environmental Quality Incentives Program (FEEQIP) Act of 2004 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to delete current provisions specifying per-year funding amounts for the environmental quality incentives program from the Commodity Credit Corporation. | 2023-01-15T04:48:36Z | |
| 108-s-2304 | 108 | s | 2304 | A bill to amend the Reclamation Project Authorization Act of 1972 to clarify the acreage for which the North Loup division is authorized to provide irrigation water under the Missouri River Basin project. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-04-08 | 2004-05-19 | Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-618. | Senate | Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE] | NE | R | H001028 | 0 | Amends the Reclamation Project Authorization Act of 1972 to provide that the acreage for which the North Loup Division of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Nebraska, is authorized to provide irrigation water may be an approximation. | 2023-01-15T04:48:32Z | |
| 108-hr-4163 | 108 | hr | 4163 | To provide for a greater number of members on certain combined Farm Service Agency county committees. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-04-02 | 2004-04-13 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. | House | Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9] | PA | R | S001154 | 1 | Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to provide for a greater number of members on certain combined Farm Service Agency county committees. | 2023-01-15T04:48:36Z | |
| 108-hr-4121 | 108 | hr | 4121 | Consumer and Producer Protection Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-04-01 | 2004-04-13 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Rehberg, Dennis R. [R-MT-At Large] | MT | R | R000571 | 1 | Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to apply "non-ambulatory" to cattle, sheep, goat, swine, horse, mule, or other equine that, at the time of examination and inspection, is unable to rise from a recumbent position or unable to walk for any reason, including nerve paralysis, metabolic conditions, or central nervous condition disorder, unless the reason for such inability is fatigue or one or more broken or fractured appendages, severed tendons, or ligaments, or dislocated joints. Considers as adulterated cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines found at inspection: (1) to be non-ambulatory; (2) to test positive for central nervous disorders; (3) to exhibit signs of bovine spongiform encephalopathy; or (4) to be dead. | 2023-01-15T04:48:38Z | |
| 108-s-2251 | 108 | s | 2251 | A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to increase the loan rate for safflower. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-03-29 | 2004-03-29 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT] | MT | D | B000243 | 1 | Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to increase the nonrecourse marketing loan rate for safflower. (Separates safflower from "other oilseeds.") | 2023-01-15T11:03:06Z | |
| 108-s-2241 | 108 | s | 2241 | A bill to reauthorize certain school lunch and child nutrition programs through June 30, 2004. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-03-26 | 2004-03-31 | Became Public Law No: 108-211. | Senate | Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS] | MS | R | C000567 | 1 | (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, and the Commodity Distribution Reform Act and WIC Amendments of 1987, to reauthorize certain school lunch and child nutrition programs through June 30, 2004. Extends requirements relating to: (1) an exclusion of certain military housing allowances from family income determinations for purposes of a child's program eligibility; (2) the Child and Adult Care Food Program; (3) reimbursement to States under commodity distribution programs (for purposes of the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs, the After-School Snack Program, the Summer Food Service Program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)); (4) funding maintenance of commodity distribution to schools; and (5) the Summer Food Service Program for Children, including pilot projects. | 2023-01-15T11:03:07Z | |
| 108-hr-4033 | 108 | hr | 4033 | Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-03-25 | 2004-03-31 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Jenkins, William L. [R-TN-1] | TN | R | J000082 | 44 | Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004 - Amends, and repeals, specified agricultural Acts to eliminate tobacco quota and price support programs. Provides for: (1) transitional payments (funded by appropriations made by this Act) to tobacco quota holders and active producers of quota tobacco; (2) geographic restrictions on tobacco expansion through penalties for tobacco grown outside traditional tobacco counties; and (3) county committee resolution of payment disputes. | 2023-01-15T10:32:57Z | |
| 108-hr-3993 | 108 | hr | 3993 | Country-of-Origin Labeling Enhancement Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-03-18 | 2004-03-18 | Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Bono, Mary [R-CA-45] | CA | R | B001228 | 3 | Country-of-Origin Labeling Enhancement Act of 2004 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, as amended by the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004, to make country-of-origin notice requirements applicable to retail sales of all covered commodities as of September 30, 2004. (Current law applies such requirements to farm-raised and wild fish as of such date, and other covered commodities as of September 30, 2006.) Requires a retailer to maintain country-of-origin records for at least 180 days. Provides for the future inclusion of national animal identification system information into the certification of origin requirements. Revises civil money penalty provisions for country-of-origin notice violations. | 2023-01-15T10:32:59Z | |
| 108-hr-4001 | 108 | hr | 4001 | To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to use the Agricultural Research Service to conduct research regarding the likelihood and risks of the transfer between animal species of the proteinaceous infectious particles, known as prions, that cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-03-18 | 2004-03-22 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research. | House | Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-4] | IA | R | L000111 | 4 | Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct research through the Agricultural Research Service regarding the likelihood and risks of the inter-animal species transfer of the proteinaceous infectious particles (prions) that cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Directs the Service to study the risks associated with feeding livestock by-products to other animals. | 2023-01-15T10:32:58Z | |
| 108-hr-4004 | 108 | hr | 4004 | Health Information Independence Act | Agriculture and Food | 2004-03-18 | 2004-03-30 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. | House | Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14] | TX | R | P000583 | 0 | Health Information Independence Act - Prevents the Federal Government from restricting the distribution of a dietary supplement or other nutritional food because the manufacturer makes health claims unapproved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) if: (1) the product has a label clearly stating that its health claims are not FDA-approved; (2) the FDA lacks evidence establishing probable cause that the claims contain misleading information posing a threat to the safety and well-being of those who use the product. Requires an independent review of a determination by the FDA that there is such probable cause. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to extend certain food nutrition labeling requirements to dietary supplements. Requires nutrition labels to include the relationship of a nutrient to the prevention, treatment, or cure of a disease. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to solicit independent scientific reviewers from the university community to review, evaluate, and make recommendations regarding particular health claims, based on the scientific evidence available. Excludes health claims only if they are unsupported by credible scientific evidence and no disclaimer could eliminate potentially misleading connotations. Makes recommendations of such reviewers binding on the Secretary and reviewable only by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Requires costs of this program to be offset against the operating budget of the Department of Health and Human Services. | 2023-01-15T10:32:58Z | |
| 108-hr-4005 | 108 | hr | 4005 | To exempt certain animal identification information from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-03-18 | 2004-04-08 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census. | House | Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7] | MN | D | P000258 | 3 | Exempts certain information obtained through the livestock identification system from Freedom of Information Act disclosure. States that such information: (1) shall not be released, nor considered to be in the public domain; and (2) shall be considered privileged and confidential commercial information. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to release such information if: (1) related to disease or pest threats to livestock; (2) related to certain actions by the Secretary; and (3) needed for public health and public safety purposes. Directs the Secretary to release such information to: (1) a requesting livestock owner; (2) the Attorney General for law enforcement purposes; (3) the Secretary of Homeland Security for national security purposes; (4) a court of competent jurisdiction; and (5) a foreign government if necessary to trace livestock threatened by disease or pest. | 2023-01-15T10:32:58Z | |
| 108-hr-4006 | 108 | hr | 4006 | Captive Supply Reform Act | Agriculture and Food | 2004-03-18 | 2004-03-23 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large] | ND | D | P000422 | 3 | Captive Supply Reform Act - Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 respecting livestock producer-packer forward contracts to: (1) require the inclusion of fixed dollar amount base pricing and public bidding; (2) prohibit formula pricing; (3) limit individual contract size; and (4) exclude from the definition of "formula price" futures-based prices and base adjustments resulting from factors outside packer control. | 2023-01-15T10:32:58Z | |
| 108-hr-3990 | 108 | hr | 3990 | To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend contracts for national dairy market loss payments through fiscal year 2007. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-03-17 | 2004-03-19 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7] | MN | D | P000258 | 12 | Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend contract authority for national dairy market loss payments. | 2023-01-15T10:32:59Z | |
| 108-hr-3961 | 108 | hr | 3961 | United States Animal Identification Plan Implementation Act | Agriculture and Food | 2004-03-11 | 2004-03-30 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman. | House | Rep. Osborne, Tom [R-NE-3] | NE | R | O000165 | 2 | United States Animal Identification Plan Implementation Act - Amends the Animal Health Protection Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to implement the animal identification plan (developed by the National Animal Identification Development Team) for: (1) beef and dairy cattle that are at least 30 months old on the date of enactment of this Act, not later than 60 days after such enactment; (2) all other beef and dairy cattle, not later than 90 days after the date of such enactment; (3) all other ruminate livestock, not later than 180 days after the date of such enactment; and (4) all other livestock, not later than one year after the date of such enactment. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into State or third-party information collection agreements. Provides for: (1) confidentiality of producer information; and (2) nonapplication of the Freedom of Information Act. Directs: (1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to monitor and report on the implementation of certain regulations relating to prohibited animal proteins in ruminant feed; and (2) the Secretary to develop a related enforcement plan. | 2023-01-15T10:33:00Z | |
| 108-hr-3930 | 108 | hr | 3930 | Summer Food Service Program Improvement Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-03-10 | 2004-03-29 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform. | House | Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5] | OR | D | H000762 | 0 | Summer Food Service Program Improvement Act of 2004 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to revise requirements for the summer food service program for children. Provides for a redefinition of rural areas in which poor economic conditions exist. Revises requirements relating to payments to service institutions for operating expenses and administrative costs. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make competitive startup grants to ten States to assist eligible service institutions in initiating summer food service program sites. | 2023-01-15T10:18:05Z | |
| 108-s-2182 | 108 | s | 2182 | A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to permit the planting of chicory on base acres. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-03-09 | 2004-03-09 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE] | NE | D | N000180 | 2 | Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to permit the planting of chicory on base acres for purposes of direct and counter-cyclical payments. | 2023-01-15T11:03:09Z | |
| 108-hr-3886 | 108 | hr | 3886 | To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to expand the pilot program for the enrollment of certain wetlands and its buffer acreage in the conservation reserve program to include the enrollment of certain playas and its buffer acreage, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-03-03 | 2004-03-15 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Neugebauer, Randy [R-TX-19] | TX | R | N000182 | 3 | Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to include certain previously cropped playas (temporary water areas) in the wetland and buffer acreage conservation pilot program (farmable wetlands program). Increases maximum acreage and payment acreage limits. | 2023-01-15T10:18:06Z | |
| 108-hr-3873 | 108 | hr | 3873 | Child Nutrition Improvement and Integrity Act | Agriculture and Food | 2004-03-02 | 2004-03-25 | Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | House | Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large] | DE | R | C000243 | 49 | Child Nutrition Improvement and Integrity Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NSLA) and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) to reauthorize various programs, including the national school lunch and breakfast, child and adult care food, after-school snack, summer food service, and special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC). Revises requirements relating to eligibility for and access to such programs. Title I: Ensuring Access to Child Nutrition Programs - (Sec. 101) Reauthorizes, without any termination date, the exclusion of military housing allowances from consideration as income in determining eligibility for free or reduced price lunches. (Sec. 102) Includes as automatically eligible for free lunches and breakfasts, provided documentation has been provided to the local educational agency (LEA): (1) children or youth defined as homeless under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act; (2) youth served under the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act; and (3) a migratory child as defined under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). (Sec. 103) Includes as eligible for severe need assistance additional payments, under the school breakfast program of CNA, those new schools drawing their attendance from schools receiving such assistance. Entitles schools eligible for such assistance to receive a specified meal reimbursement rate. (Repeals the entitlement of such schools to the lesser of such meal reimbursement rate or their breakfast program operating costs.) (Sec. 104) Extends through FY 2008 the summer food pilot projects and the summer food service program for children. Allows nonprofit organizations to participate in such programs. Makes eligible for such programs, in additional to States already meeting certain criteria, the three States with the highest percentage of households determined annually by the Secretary to be food insecure with hunger. (Sec. 105) Revises the child and adult care food program. Extends indefinitely the period d… | 2023-01-15T10:18:06Z | |
| 108-s-2141 | 108 | s | 2141 | Farming Flexibility Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-02-26 | 2004-02-26 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN] | IN | R | L000504 | 6 | Farming Flexibility Act of 2004 - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, with respect to direct and counter-cyclical payments, to: (1) permit a producer to reduce soybean base acreage by electing to plant such acres with fruits or vegetables for processing; (2) require such election to be made annually; and (3) provide that if a farm's base acreage is recalculated, such fruit or vegetable production shall be considered the same as the planning, prevented planting, or production of soybeans. | 2023-01-15T10:03:16Z | |
| 108-hr-3822 | 108 | hr | 3822 | National Livestock Identification Act | Agriculture and Food | 2004-02-24 | 2004-02-24 | Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4] | MN | D | M001143 | 0 | National Livestock Identification Act - Amends the Animal Health Protection Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an electronic nationwide livestock identification system to enhance the Department of Agriculture's response to outbreaks of livestock disease. Requires that such system be capable of tracing, within 48 hours, individual animals from birth to slaughter. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide producer participation assistance; and (2) appoint an international panel of scientific experts to review the Department's response to an outbreak of livestock disease. | 2023-01-15T09:47:45Z | |
| 108-s-2070 | 108 | s | 2070 | United States Animal Identification Plan Implementation Act | Agriculture and Food | 2004-02-12 | 2004-02-12 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1289) | Senate | Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE] | NE | R | H001028 | 0 | United States Animal Identification Plan Implementation Act - Amends the Animal Health Protection Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to implement the animal identification plan (developed by the National Animal Identification Development Team) for: (1) beef and dairy cattle that are at least 30 months old on the date of enactment of this Act, not later than 60 days after such enactment; (2) all other beef and dairy cattle, not later than 90 days after the date of such enactment; (3) all other ruminate livestock, not later than 180 days after the date of such enactment; and (4) all other livestock, not later than one year after the date of such enactment. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into State or third-party information collection agreements. Provides for: (1) confidentiality of producer information; and (2) nonapplication of the Freedom of Information Act. Directs: (1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to monitor and report on the implementation of certain regulations relating to prohibited animal proteins in ruminant feed; and (2) the Secretary to develop a related enforcement plan. | 2023-01-15T10:03:18Z | |
| 108-hr-3787 | 108 | hr | 3787 | National Farm Animal Identification and Records Act | Agriculture and Food | 2004-02-10 | 2004-02-12 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7] | MN | D | P000258 | 14 | National Farm Animal Identification and Records Act - Amends the Animal Health Protection Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an electronic nationwide livestock identification system to enhance the Department of Agriculture's response to outbreaks of livestock disease. Requires that such system: (1) be capable of tracing, within 48 hours, livestock from birth to slaughter; (2) provide for access by States and inclusion of State information; and (3) apply to all livestock born or imported into the United Sates, and to interstate and intrastate commerce. Exempts, with specified exceptions, system information from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act or other release into the public domain. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide producer participation assistance; and (2) appoint an international panel of scientific experts to review the Department's response to an outbreak of livestock disease. | 2023-01-15T09:47:46Z | |
| 108-s-2051 | 108 | s | 2051 | Animal Feed Protection Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-02-05 | 2004-02-05 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S650) | Senate | Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] | WA | D | C000127 | 0 | Animal Feed Protection Act of 2004 - Makes it unlawful for any person to introduce into interstate or foreign commerce a covered article that contains: (1) specified risk material from a ruminant, or any material from a ruminant that was in any foreign country when there was a risk of transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and may contain specified risk material from a ruminant; or (2) any material from a ruminant exhibiting signs of a neurological disease. States that the head of a Federal agency may: (1) seize and destroy an article that is introduced into interstate or foreign commerce in violation of this Act; or (2) require any person who is in violation of this Act to cease the violation, to recall any sold article and refund the purchase price, to destroy or forfeit the article to the United States for destruction, or to cease production operations until the head of the appropriate Federal agency determines that there is no longer a violation of this Act. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for related civil and monetary penalties. Defines "covered article" as: (1) animal feed, nutritional supplement, or medicine; and (2) any other article that is ordinarily ingested, implanted, or otherwise taken into an animal. Sets forth exceptions. Defines "specified risk material" as: (1) the skull, brain, trigeminal ganglia, eyes, tonsils, spinal cord, vertebral column, or dorsal root ganglia of cattle and bison 30 months of age and older, or sheep, goats, deer, and elk 12 months of age and older; (2) the intestinal tract of any ruminant; and (3) any other material of a ruminant that may carry a prion disease. | 2023-01-15T10:03:19Z | |
| 108-hr-3732 | 108 | hr | 3732 | To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to repeal the recently enacted two-year delay in the implementation of the country of origin labeling requirements of such Act for certain agricultural commodities. | Agriculture and Food | 2004-01-27 | 2004-01-29 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Rehberg, Dennis R. [R-MT-At Large] | MT | R | R000571 | 1 | Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, as amended by the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 to require implementation of certain country of origin labeling requirements by September 30, 2004, rather than September 30, 2006. | 2023-01-15T09:32:51Z | |
| 108-hr-3714 | 108 | hr | 3714 | BSE and Other Prion Disease Prevention and Public Health Protection Act | Agriculture and Food | 2004-01-21 | 2004-02-03 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman. | House | Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3] | CT | D | D000216 | 10 | BSE and Other Prion Disease Prevention and Public Health Protection Act - Prohibits the importation of a covered article that: (1) if containing animal-derived material, does not state in English that the covered article contains animal-derived material and the name of the derivative animal, and if a ruminant, identifies the country of origin and states whether specified risk material from the ruminant is or may be part of the covered article; (2) if not containing animal-derived material, does not state in English that the covered article does not contain animal-derived material; and (3) contains animal-derived material from a ruminant that was in any country at a time at which there was a transmission risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to promulgate compliance standards. Prohibits the introduction into interstate or foreign commerce of a covered article that contains: (1) specified risk material from a ruminant, or any material from a ruminant that was in any foreign country when there was a BSE transmission risk; or (2) any material from a ruminant exhibiting signs of a neurological disease. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate compliance standards. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop an enforcement plan for the regulatory ban of certain animal proteins in ruminant feed; (2) promulgate regulations prohibiting same-farm admixing of ruminant and nonruminant feed; (3) annually assess prion disease prevalence and cattle testing in the United States; and (4) in conjunction with the National Prion Disease Pathology Research Center at Case Western Reserve University, expand survey efforts for prion diseases in humans. Directs the Secretary to establish a ruminant identification program capable of tracing, within 48 hours, the movements of disease-exposed animals from birth to slaughter. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture develop programs to: (1) fund the development of the national animal health laboratory network, and expan… | 2023-01-15T09:32:51Z | |
| 108-hr-3705 | 108 | hr | 3705 | Mad Cow Testing Act of 2004 | Agriculture and Food | 2004-01-20 | 2004-01-20 | Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7] | CA | D | M000725 | 1 | Mad Cow Testing Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require the post-mortem testing of cattle carcasses and parts intended for human consumption for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease). Requires that: (1) such tests be conducted only by Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service personnel; and (2) testing costs be covered through fees collected from slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, and other establishments subject to such testing. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to delay such testing if an accurate test is not available for cattle under a certain age. Requires the Secretary to evaluate at least yearly during the course of any such delay whether a test has been developed. | 2023-01-15T09:32:51Z | |
| 108-s-2007 | 108 | s | 2007 | BSE and Other Prion Disease Prevention and Public Health Protection Act | Agriculture and Food | 2004-01-20 | 2004-01-20 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] | IL | D | D000563 | 5 | BSE and Other Prion Disease Prevention and Public Health Protection Act - Prohibits the importation of a covered article that: (1) if containing animal-derived material, does not state in English that the covered article contains animal-derived material and the name of the derivative animal, and if a ruminant, identifies the country of origin and states whether specified risk material from the ruminant is or may be part of the covered article; (2) if not containing animal-derived material, does not state in English that the covered article does not contain animal-derived material; and (3) contains animal-derived material from a ruminant that was in any country at a time at which there was a transmission risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to promulgate compliance standards. Prohibits the introduction into interstate or foreign commerce of a covered article that contains: (1) specified risk material from a ruminant, or any material from a ruminant that was in any foreign country when there was a BSE transmission risk; or (2) any material from a ruminant exhibiting signs of a neurological disease. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate compliance standards. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop an enforcement plan for the regulatory ban of certain animal proteins in ruminant feed; (2) promulgate regulations prohibiting same-farm admixing of ruminant and nonruminant feed; (3) annually assess prion disease prevalence and cattle testing in the United States; and (4) in conjunction with the National Prion Disease Pathology Research Center at Case Western Reserve University, expand survey efforts for prion diseases in humans. Directs the Secretary to establish a ruminant identification program capable of tracing, within 48 hours, the movements of disease-exposed animals from birth to slaughter. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture develop programs to: (1) fund the development of the national animal health laboratory network, and expan… | 2023-01-15T09:32:49Z | |
| 108-s-2008 | 108 | s | 2008 | National Farm Animal Identification and Records Act | Agriculture and Food | 2004-01-20 | 2004-01-20 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S55) | Senate | Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA] | PA | R | S000709 | 2 | National Farm Animal Identification and Records Act - Amends the Animal Health Protection Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an electronic nationwide livestock identification system (for individual animal identification) to enhance the Department of Agriculture's response to outbreaks of livestock disease. Requires that such system: (1) be capable of tracing, within 48 hours, an individual animal from birth to slaughter; and (2) provide for access by States and inclusion of State information. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide producer participation assistance; and (2) appoint an international panel of scientific experts to review the Department's response to an outbreak of livestock disease. | 2023-01-15T09:32:49Z | |
| 108-hr-3684 | 108 | hr | 3684 | Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2003 | Agriculture and Food | 2003-12-08 | 2003-12-17 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. | House | Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18] | NY | D | L000480 | 57 | Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to set forth food labeling requirements for a food that is not a raw agricultural commodity and that is, or contains, a major food allergen (as defined by this Act). States that: (1) any person may petition the Secretary of Health and Human Services to exempt a food ingredient from such requirements; and (2) the Secretary's determination of such a petition shall constitute final agency action. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct inspections to ensure compliance with practices to reduce or eliminate cross-contact with major food allergen residues, and ensure that major food allergens are properly labeled on foods; (2) issue a final rule to define, and permit use of, the term "gluten-free" on the labeling of foods; (3) improve food allergen data collection, including physician and health care provider education; (4) convene a panel of allergy and immunology experts to review food allergy research efforts; (5) pursue Food Code revisions in order to provide allergen-free food preparation guidelines for food establishments; and (6) include food allergy treatment in trauma and emergency care technical assistance. | 2023-01-15T09:17:38Z | |
| 108-s-1969 | 108 | s | 1969 | A bill to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to add pears and cherries to the list of fruits and vegetables subject to regulation in a marketing order by grade, size, quality, or maturity, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 2003-11-25 | 2003-11-25 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] | WA | D | M001111 | 2 | Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement of 1937, to include pears and cherries within the category of fruits and vegetables for which imports must meet marketing order size, grade, quality, and maturity requirements. | 2023-01-15T09:03:28Z | |
| 108-hr-3628 | 108 | hr | 3628 | National Food Safety Database Act of 2003 | Agriculture and Food | 2003-11-21 | 2003-12-04 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. | House | Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] | IL | D | S001145 | 1 | National Food Safety Database Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for the establishment of an electronic food safety database which shall be made available, through State agreements, to hospitals, nursing homes, schools, child care facilities, and other eligible institutions. Authorizes related State grants. Requires such database to maintain information concerning: (1) enforcement actions; (2) recalls; (3) food-borne illness outbreaks; and (4) facility inspections. Provides for the establishment of a related interagency task force and advisory committee. | 2023-01-15T08:33:21Z | |
| 108-s-1924 | 108 | s | 1924 | Dairy Farm Workers Fairness Act | Agriculture and Food | 2003-11-21 | 2003-11-21 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15420) | Senate | Sen. Jeffords, James M. [I-VT] | VT | I | J000072 | 0 | Dairy Farm Workers Fairness Act - Provides H-2A nonimmigrant worker program coverage for dairy farm workers. | 2023-01-15T09:03:29Z | |
| 108-hr-3546 | 108 | hr | 3546 | Meat and Poultry Products Traceability and Safety Act of 2003 | Agriculture and Food | 2003-11-20 | 2003-12-03 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture. | House | Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1] | CO | D | D000197 | 12 | Meat and Poultry Products Traceability and Safety Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to direct that cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules and other equines, and poultry presented for slaughter for human consumption, and the carcasses or parts of carcasses and the meat and food products of those animals, shipped in interstate commerce be identified in a manner that enables the Secretary of Agriculture to trace: (1) each animal to any location at which the animal was held at any time before slaughter; and (2) each carcass or part of a carcass and food product forward from slaughter through processing and distribution to the ultimate consumer. Authorizes the Secretary to prohibit or restrict entry to a slaughtering establishment of an animal not so identified. Directs the Secretary to establish a traceability system for all stages of production, processing, and distribution of meat and meat food products and poultry and poultry food products. | 2023-01-15T08:33:24Z | |
| 108-hr-3547 | 108 | hr | 3547 | SAFER Meat, Poultry, and Food Act | Agriculture and Food | 2003-11-20 | 2003-12-04 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. | House | Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1] | CO | D | D000197 | 8 | Safe and Fair Enforcement and Recall for Meat, Poultry and Food Act or SAFER Meat, Poultry and Food Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to: (1) require a person, other than a household consumer, who has reason to believe meat, poultry, or food products to be adulterated or misbranded to so notify the Secretary of Agriculture; and (2) provide the Secretary with authority for voluntary and mandatory nondistribution and recall, withdrawal of inspectors from violating facilities, and civil penalties. | 2023-01-15T08:33:24Z | |
| 108-s-1877 | 108 | s | 1877 | A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to improve the enrollment of cropland into the conservation reserve program through the farmable wetlands program. | Agriculture and Food | 2003-11-18 | 2003-11-18 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS] | KS | R | R000307 | 0 | Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to include playas (temporary water areas) in the wetland and buffer acreage conservation pilot program (farmable wetlands program). Increases maximum acreage and payment acreage limits. | 2023-01-15T09:03:30Z | |
| 108-hr-3500 | 108 | hr | 3500 | To prohibit the anticipated extreme reduction in the national marketing quotas for the 2004 crop of Flue-cured and Burley tobacco, which, if permitted to occur, would mean economic ruin for tobacco farmers and their families. | Agriculture and Food | 2003-11-17 | 2003-11-17 | Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3] | NC | R | J000255 | 15 | Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain the national 2004 marketing quota for Flue-cured and Burley tobacco at 2003 levels. Provides that: (1) A producer-owned cooperative marketing association may fully settle, without further cost to the association, a loan made for the 2004 crop of Flue-cured and Burley tobacco by forfeiting to the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) the Flue-cured or Burley tobacco covered by the loan regardless of the condition of the tobacco; (2) any resultant CCC losses shall not be charged to the No Net Cost Tobacco Account; or affect certain related assessments; and (3) forfeited tobacco shall not be counted towards quotas, or sold for use in the United States. | 2023-01-15T08:33:25Z | |
| 108-hr-3482 | 108 | hr | 3482 | Voluntary Public Access and Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program Act of 2003 | Agriculture and Food | 2003-11-07 | 2003-11-21 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large] | ND | D | P000422 | 18 | Voluntary Public Access and Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program Act of 2003 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program under which States may apply for grants to encourage owners and operators of privately-held farm and ranch land to voluntarily make such land available for public access and habitat-related activities under State-administered plans. Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to exclude from excess base acreage computation for direct and counter-cyclical payment purposes certain conservation enrolled farm land not planted in an agricultural commodity. | 2023-01-15T08:33:26Z | |
| 108-s-1840 | 108 | s | 1840 | Voluntary Public Access and Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program Act of 2003 | Agriculture and Food | 2003-11-07 | 2003-11-07 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S14273-14274) | Senate | Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND] | ND | D | C000705 | 20 | Voluntary Public Access and Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program Act of 2003 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program under which States may apply for grants to encourage owners and operators of privately-held farm and ranch land to voluntarily make such land available for public access and habitat-related activities under State-administered plans. Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to exclude from excess base acreage computation for direct and counter-cyclical payment purposes certain conservation enrolled farm land not planted in an agricultural commodity. | 2023-01-15T09:03:31Z | |
| 108-hr-3472 | 108 | hr | 3472 | To establish a Federal interagency task force to promote the benefits, safety, and potential uses of agricultural biotechnology to improve human and animal nutrition, increase crop productivity, and improve agricultural sustainability while ensuring the safety of food and the environment. | Agriculture and Food | 2003-11-06 | 2003-11-21 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7] | MI | R | S000597 | 18 | Establishes the Federal Interagency Task Force to Promote the Benefits, Safety, and Potential Uses of Agricultural Biotechnology to improve interagency cooperation and to develop and disseminate accurate written scientific information on the benefits, safety, and potential uses of agricultural biotechnology. Terminates the Task Force ten years after enactment of this Act. | 2023-01-15T08:33:27Z | |
| 108-hres-435 | 108 | hres | 435 | Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Health and Human Services should take immediate action to remove dietary supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids from the market. | Agriculture and Food | 2003-11-06 | 2003-11-14 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. | House | Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53] | CA | D | D000598 | 4 | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Health and Human Services has the authority to determine that dietary supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids are dangerous and should be taken off the market. | 2023-01-15T08:48:08Z | |
| 108-s-1829 | 108 | s | 1829 | Better Eating for Better Living Act of 2003 | Agriculture and Food | 2003-11-06 | 2003-11-06 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] | NM | D | B000468 | 0 | Better Eating for Better Living Act of 2003 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NSLA) to revise school lunch programs with respect to reimbursement rates, nutrition guidelines, milk guidelines, and funds for nutrition education and training. Amends NLSA to increase the reimbursement rate for school lunches by 20.5 cents per meal (from 10.5 to 31). Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to evaluate nutrition guidelines for school meals, and issue any necessary revised guidelines, every five years. Revises milk guidelines. Requires schools, at a minimum, to offer students a choice of low fat or nonfat fluid milk. Allows schools, in addition, to offer any other varieties of fluid milk that are: (1) consistent with expressed preferences of the student population; and (2) reasonably equivalent in calcium, protein, vitamin A, and vitamin K content and cost. Amends CNA to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer to the Secretary specified amounts of funds for implementing and administering nutrition education and training programs. Requires grants to each State from such amounts to be: (1) based on a rate of 1/2 cent per average daily number of meals served; and (2) allocated among State, district, and school food service and health education authorities, as determined by the Secretary. Sets a minimum grant amount. | 2023-01-15T08:48:05Z | |
| 108-sres-260 | 108 | sres | 260 | A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Health and Human Services should take action to remove dietary supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids from the market. | Agriculture and Food | 2003-11-06 | 2003-11-06 | Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S14180-14181) | Senate | Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] | IL | D | D000563 | 3 | Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Health and Human Services has the authority to determine that dietary supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids are dangerous and should be taken off the market. | 2023-01-15T09:17:40Z | |
| 108-hr-3441 | 108 | hr | 3441 | School Nutrition Enhancement Act | Agriculture and Food | 2003-11-05 | 2003-12-01 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform. | House | Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4] | CT | R | S001144 | 112 | School Nutrition Enhancement Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to phase out reduced price lunches and breakfasts by phasing in increases in income eligibility for free lunches and breakfasts by specified increments from 130 percent of the Office of Management and Budget nonfarm income poverty guidelines for July 1, 2003, to 185 percent of such guidelines for July 1, 2008, and every subsequent school year. | 2023-01-15T08:33:28Z | |
| 108-s-1827 | 108 | s | 1827 | A bill to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to remove the requirement that processors be members of an agency administering a marketing order applicable to pears. | Agriculture and Food | 2003-11-05 | 2003-11-05 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR] | OR | R | S001142 | 3 | Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to eliminate pear marketing order requirements that: (1) processors be members of an agency administering a marketing order; and (2) processor and producer agency representation be equal respecting a marketing order for canned or frozen pears. | 2023-01-15T08:48:05Z | |
| 108-hr-3416 | 108 | hr | 3416 | Healthy Children Through Better Nutrition Act of 2003 | Agriculture and Food | 2003-10-30 | 2003-12-01 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform. | House | Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7] | CA | D | M000725 | 63 | Healthy Children Through Better Nutrition Act of 2003 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NSLA) and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) to reauthorize various programs, including the national school lunch and breakfast, child and adult care food, after-school snack, summer food service, and special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC). Revises requirements relating to eligibility for and access to such programs. Establishes programs for: (1) year-round community child nutrition; (2) school meals improvements grants; and (3) free fruit and vegetables at schools. Expands eligibility for free meals. Makes homeless children and youth automatically eligible for free lunches and breakfasts. Lowers area eligibility thresholds under the child and adult care food programs and the summer food service program. Provides for direct certification of children as eligible for free meals, without further application, based on their being in households receiving assistance under the food stamp program or the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program under title IV part A of the Social Security Act, and through other means-tested programs. Provides for categorical eligibility for recipients of other means-tested benefits. Revises the summer food service program to make it a permanent rather than a pilot program, and to provide startup and expansion grants. Revises school breakfast programs to provide: (1) startup and expansion grants; and (2) universal secondary school breakfast pilot projects. Provides commodity assistance for school breakfast, as well as school lunch, programs. Revises the child and adult care food program to provide for nutrition education pilot programs. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to establish a year-round community child nutrition program. Requires local educational agencies (LEAs) participating in school meals programs to establish school nutrition policies that at a minimum ensure that operational responsibility fo… | 2023-01-15T07:47:44Z | |
| 108-hr-3402 | 108 | hr | 3402 | Permanent Emergency Agricultural Assistance Act | Agriculture and Food | 2003-10-29 | 2003-11-03 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA. | House | Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7] | MN | D | P000258 | 6 | Permanent Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use Commodity Credit Corporation funds for emergency financial assistance to: (1) crop producers who have suffered qualifying weather-caused crop losses in 2001, 2002, or 2003; and (2) livestock producers for losses in 2001, 2002, or 2003, including livestock under the American Indian livestock program, in a disaster-designated county. Reduces (other than crop insurance) other agricultural assistance by amounts received under this Act. Directs the Secretary to make emergency financial assistance available after 2003 to producers with specified crop insurance coverage who have suffered qualifying weather-caused crop damage in a disaster-designated area. | 2023-01-15T07:47:44Z | |
| 108-hr-3377 | 108 | hr | 3377 | Dietary Supplement Access and Awareness Act | Agriculture and Food | 2003-10-28 | 2004-06-02 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3663) | House | Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53] | CA | D | D000598 | 10 | Dietary Supplement Access and Awareness Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require reports to the Secretary of Health and Human Services by: (1) manufacturers and processors of dietary supplements respecting dietary supplement product listing (including labeling, ingredient, and discontinuance information); and (2) manufacturers and distributors of dietary supplements respecting serious adverse experiences resulting from a supplement's use (requires manufacturer or distributor investigation of such occurrence). Authorizes the Secretary to require a manufacturer to: (1) provide postmarket surveillance if there is a reasonable possibility of a supplement causing adverse health consequences; and (2) demonstrate that a supplement is not adulterated if the Secretary has reasonable grounds for believing that a supplement may be adulterated (permits distribution during such demonstration period unless determined to be an imminent public health hazard, and requires a final determination of adulteration by the Secretary). Deems a supplement as adulterated for noncompliance with such safety demonstration provisions. Authorizes the Secretary to make a determination that a dietary supplement may pose a significant risk to individuals under the age of 18, and prohibit (as misbranded while held for sale) the supplement's sale to such individuals. Includes among prohibited acts failure to comply with the requirements added by this Act (other than safety demonstration requirements). Extends inspection authority to records, controls, and facilities related to a determination of supplement adulteration. Directs the Secretary to carry out dietary supplement education programs for health care professionals and consumers. | 2023-01-15T07:47:45Z | |
| 108-s-1766 | 108 | s | 1766 | A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to prohibit the use of certain conservation funding to provide technical assistance under the conservation reserve program. | Agriculture and Food | 2003-10-21 | 2003-10-21 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12975) | Senate | Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] | VT | D | L000174 | 8 | Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to prohibit the use of certain conservation funding to provide technical assistance under the conservation reserve program. | 2023-01-15T08:03:18Z |
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