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| 95-hr-14400 | 95 | hr | 14400 | A bill to create, subject to the provisions of the District of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Act, a corporation body to contribute to solving the world hunger problem by providing food to foreign nations and to allow the designation of contributions for that body on Federal tax forms. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-10-14 | 1978-10-14 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Myers, Gary A. [R-PA-25] | PA | R | M001128 | 0 | Creates, subject to the provisions of the District of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Act, the United States World Hunger Relief Agency. Sets forth the functions of the Agency: (1) to alleviate suffering caused by calamities in foreign nations; (2) to contribute to solving the world hunger problem; and (3) to assist in developing the agricultural sectors of foreign nations. Provides for a Board of Governors to be appointed by the President after consulting with the leaders of the House and Senate. Directs the Board to submit an administrative plan of operation to both houses of Congress, which shall take effect after 60 days unless disapproved by either House. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to provide a place on all Federal tax return forms for individuals to designate contributions for the Agency. Authorizes the Agency to report to Congress on the costs, effects, and value of public and private food aid to foreign nations. Authorizes appropriations for the Agency. | 2024-08-01T20:07:17Z | |
| 95-s-3623 | 95 | s | 3623 | Agricultural Subterminal Storage Facilities Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-10-14 | 1978-10-14 | Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. McGovern, George [D-SD] | SD | D | M000452 | 0 | Agricultural Subterminal Storage Facilities Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make and insure loans and to provide other financial assistance to States which have experienced serious storage and transportation problems in order to construct or improve subterminal facilities. Defines "subterminal facility" as any facility used for the transient storage of bulk agricultural commodities or for transporting, upgrading, receiving, drying, or loading them out. Requires such facilities to be located between an area of agricultural production and any major storage or major export point, at a place that conveniently serves the needs of producers and purchasers of such commodities, including rail sidings, and loading or unloading facilities which can accommodate unit railroad cars and other appropriate transportation modes designed for the transport and storage of bulk agricultural commodities. Prescribes the necessary contents of the grain shipment and storage plans required from applicant States. | 2025-09-02T17:14:35Z | |
| 95-hr-14327 | 95 | hr | 14327 | Cooperative Rangeland Research Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-10-13 | 1978-10-13 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Poage, W. R. [D-TX-11] | TX | D | P000398 | 0 | Cooperative Rangeland Research Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with the several States and provide eligible State-certified institutions of higher learning with matching funds to carry out programs of research in rangeland management, including: (1) forage production; (2) crop and waste product utilization; (3) improvement of watershed conditions; and (4) revegetation and rangeland rehabilitation. | 2025-09-02T17:11:40Z | |
| 95-hr-14307 | 95 | hr | 14307 | A bill to provide for the increase of food stamp allotments for households having members with medical dietary needs. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-10-12 | 1978-10-12 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Wilson, Charles [D-TX-2] | TX | D | W000570 | 0 | Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1964 to entitle to an increase in its coupon allotment any household with a member who, for medical reasons, has special dietary requirements. | 2024-08-01T20:07:04Z | |
| 95-hr-14227 | 95 | hr | 14227 | Career Criminal Prosecution Assistance Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-10-04 | 1978-10-04 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Satterfield, David E., III [D-VA-3] | VA | D | S000070 | 0 | Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from taking any action under the Wholesome Meat Act or any other law to ban the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect they may be represented to have in humans, until three months after the submission of the results of the study required by the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act. | 2025-09-02T17:11:40Z | |
| 95-hr-14213 | 95 | hr | 14213 | A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from prohibiting the use of nitrites as food preservative on the basis of any carcinogenic effect nitrites may be represented to have until a satisfactory substitute preservative is commercially available. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-10-02 | 1978-10-02 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Mathis, Dawson [D-GA-2] | GA | D | M000244 | 18 | Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from taking any action under the Wholesome Meat Act or any other law to prohibit the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect in humans that nitrites may be represented to have, unless validated evidence is made available to the Secretary which proves beyond a reasonable doubt that nitrites as a food preservative have a significant carcinogenic effect on humans. States that such prohibition shall not apply if the Secretary determines, and publishes in the Federal Register, that a food preservative is commercially available: (1) which may be used in the place of nitrites; (2) which is effective in the protection of public health from botulism and other forms of food poisoning; and (3) the use of which is economically feasible for meat processors and the consumer. Requires the Secretary to conduct or support (by grant or contract) research and development activities for a food preservative alternative to nitrites. | 2024-08-01T20:07:05Z | |
| 95-hr-14214 | 95 | hr | 14214 | A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from prohibiting the use of nitrites as a food preservative on the basis of any carcinogenic effect nitrites may be represented to have until the development of a satisfactory alternative food preservative. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-10-02 | 1978-10-02 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Mathis, Dawson [D-GA-2] | GA | D | M000244 | 18 | Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, from taking any action under the Wholesome Meat Act, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or any other law to prohibit the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect in humans that nitrites may be represented to have, unless validated evidence is made available to the Secretaries which proves beyond a reasonable doubt that nitrites as a food preservative have a significant carcinogenic effect on humans. States that such prohibition shall not apply if the Secretaries determine, and publish in the Federal Register, that a food preservative is commercially available: (1) which may be used in the place of nitrites; (2) which is effective in the protection of public health from botulism and other forms of food poisoning; and (3) the use of which is economically feasible for meat processors and the consumer. Requires the Secretaries to conduct or support (by grant or contract) research and development activities for a food preservative alternative to nitrites. | 2024-08-01T20:07:05Z | |
| 95-hr-14155 | 95 | hr | 14155 | Fair Meat Trading Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-09-22 | 1978-09-22 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Smith, Neal Edward [D-IA-4] | IA | D | S000596 | 1 | Fair Meat Trading Act - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to report to Congress recommendations for alternative substitute procedures involving the marketing and pricing of meat commodities, including: (1) the banning of formula base pricing (all buying and selling where price is based or determined by the quote of a market price reporting service, not by agreement between the parties to the trade); and (2) a system for electronic base marketing as part of a centralized national market system. Requires a minimum three-year maintenance of all records necessary to carry out this Act, or a longer period if the Secretary so directs. Directs the Secretary to appoint a Meat Industry Marketing Standards Board: (1) to recommend standards of identity for meat commodities and other appropriate terms and rules necessary for orderly trading on any centralized national market which may be established for the trading of all meat commodities; and (2) to develop and present to the Secretary proposals relating to market price reporting services. Requires the Board to consider: (1) establishing a volume standard as a basis for price reporting; and (2) proscribing formula based trading using only one market news reporting service. Requires licensing by the Secretary of any market price reporting service with meat commodities with renewable terms of three years. Requires every trader in meat commodities to furnish full and accurate information concerning all trades to all licensed market price reporting services in any transaction over carload lots in excess of 35,000 pounds (and any other transaction when such trader is contacted by a licensed market price reporting service), except when traded on a centralized market. Requires, if requested, confirmation of such information in writing to such reporting service within 48 hours. Directs the Packers and Stockyards Administration to audit the records of authorized market price reporting services at least once 30 days after licensing is granted, and at least once a year therea… | 2025-09-02T17:11:35Z | |
| 95-hr-14118 | 95 | hr | 14118 | A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from prohibiting the use of nitrites as a food preservative on the basis of any carcinogenic effect nitrites may be represented to have until a satisfactory substitute preservative is commercially available. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-09-19 | 1978-09-19 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Mathis, Dawson [D-GA-2] | GA | D | M000244 | 6 | Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from taking any action under the Wholesome Meat Act or any other law to prohibit the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect in humans that nitrites may be represented to have, unless validated evidence is made available to the Secretary which proves beyond a reasonable doubt that nitrites as a food preservative have a significant carcinogenic effect on humans. States that such prohibition shall not apply if the Secretary determines, and publishes in the Federal Register, that a food preservative is commercially available: (1) which may be used in the place of nitrites; (2) which is effective in the protection of public health from botulism and other forms of food poisoning; and (3) the use of which is economically feasible for meat processors and the consumer. Requires the Secretary to conduct or support (by grant or contract) research and development activities for a food preservative alternative to nitrites. | 2024-08-01T20:06:59Z | |
| 95-hr-14119 | 95 | hr | 14119 | A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from prohibiting the use of nitrites as a food preservative on the basis of any carcinogenic effect nitrites may be represented to have until a satisfactory substitute preservative is commercially available. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-09-19 | 1978-09-19 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Mathis, Dawson [D-GA-2] | GA | D | M000244 | 24 | Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from taking any action under the Wholesome Meat Act or any other law to prohibit the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect in humans that nitrites may be represented to have, unless validated evidence is made available to the Secretary which proves beyond a reasonable doubt that nitrites as a food preservative have a significant carcinogenic effect on humans. States that such prohibition shall not apply if the Secretary determines, and publishes in the Federal Register, that a food preservative is commercially available: (1) which may be used in the place of nitrites; (2) which is effective in the protection of public health from botulism and other forms of food poisoning; and (3) the use of which is economically feasible for meat processors and the consumer. Requires the Secretary to conduct or support (by grant or contract) research and development activities for a food preservative alternative to nitrites. | 2024-08-01T20:06:59Z | |
| 95-hr-14120 | 95 | hr | 14120 | A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from prohibiting the use of nitrites as a food preservative on the basis of any carcinogenic effect nitrites may be represented to have until the development of a satisfactory alternative food preservative. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-09-19 | 1978-09-19 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Mathis, Dawson [D-GA-2] | GA | D | M000244 | 6 | Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, from taking any action under the Wholesome Meat Act, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or any other law to prohibit the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect in humans that nitrites may be represented to have, unless validated evidence is made available to the Secretaries which proves beyond a reasonable doubt that nitrites as a food preservative have a significant carcinogenic effect on humans. States that such prohibition shall not apply if the Secretaries determine, and publish in the Federal Register, that a food preservative is commercially available: (1) which may be used in the place of nitrites; (2) which is effective in the protection of public health from botulism and other forms of food poisoning; and (3) the use of which is economically feasible for meat processors and the consumer. Requires the Secretaries to conduct or support (by grant or contract) research and development activities for a food preservative alternative to nitrites. | 2024-08-01T20:07:00Z | |
| 95-hr-14121 | 95 | hr | 14121 | A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from prohibiting the use of nitrites as a food preservative on the basis of any carcinogenic effect nitrites may be represented to have until the development of a satisfactory alternative food preservative. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-09-19 | 1978-09-19 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Mathis, Dawson [D-GA-2] | GA | D | M000244 | 24 | Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, from taking any action under the Wholesome Meat Act, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or any other law to prohibit the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect in humans that nitrites may be represented to have, unless validated evidence is made available to the Secretaries which proves beyond a reasonable doubt that nitrites as a food preservative have a significant carcinogenic effect on humans. States that such prohibition shall not apply if the Secretaries determine, and publish in the Federal Register, that a food preservative is commercially available: (1) which may be used in the place of nitrites; (2) which is effective in the protection of public health from botulism and other forms of food poisoning; and (3) the use of which is economically feasible for meat processors and the consumer. Requires the Secretaries to conduct or support (by grant or contract) research and development activities for a food preservative alternative to nitrites. | 2024-08-01T20:07:00Z | |
| 95-hr-14099 | 95 | hr | 14099 | A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from prohibiting the use of nitrites as a food preservative on the basis of any carcinogenic effect nitrites may be represented to have until the development of a satisfactory alternative food preservative. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-09-18 | 1978-09-18 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Hammerschmidt, John P. [R-AR-3] | AR | R | H000124 | 0 | Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, from taking any action under the Wholesome Meat Act, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or any other law to prohibit the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect in humans that nitrites may be represented to have, unless validated evidence is made available to the Secretaries which proves beyond a reasonable doubt that nitrites as a food preservative have a significant carcinogenic effect on humans. States that such prohibition shall not apply if the Secretaries determine, and publish in the Federal Register, that a food preservative is commercially available: (1) which may be used in the place of nitrites; (2) which is effective in the protection of public health from botulism and other forms of food poisoning; and (3) the use of which is economically feasible for meat processors and the consumer. Requires the Secretaries to conduct or support (by grant or contract) research and development activities for a food preservative alternative to nitrites. | 2024-08-01T20:06:59Z | |
| 95-hr-14108 | 95 | hr | 14108 | Nitrite Indemnification Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-09-18 | 1978-09-18 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Leach, James A. [R-IA-1] | IA | R | L000169 | 0 | Nitrite Indemnification Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make indemnity payments to livestock and poultry producers in any case in which: (1) any significant conclusion, announced after August 1, 1978, of federally sponsored research on the safety of using nitrites in cured livestock and poultry products is shown to be inaccurate; and (2) there has been, during the 120 days following the announcement, a fall in the average price per pound received by all producers for livestock and poultry sales from the level of such price during the 120-day period preceding the announcement. Sets forth a formula for the determination of any indemnity payment. Limits the maximum annual payment to any individual to $50,000. | 2025-09-02T17:11:35Z | |
| 95-hr-14109 | 95 | hr | 14109 | Nitrite Substitute Research Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-09-18 | 1978-09-18 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Leach, James A. [R-IA-1] | IA | R | L000169 | 1 | Nitrite Substitute Research Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct or arrange for the conduct of: (1) further research on the effects of nitrites on animals other than the Sprague-Dawley species of rat; and (2) research on possible nitrite substitutes, and preservative methods and processes, or combinations thereof, that may be used in the preservation of meat, poultry, or fish. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress, one year after enactment, about the actions he has taken to develop an acceptable nitrite substitute. Directs the Secretary to petition the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for the issuance of a regulation prescribing conditions for the safe use of any such nitrite substitute. Authorizes the Secretary to reallocate funds appropriated for the Department of Agriculture for other agricultural research programs to conduct the research required by this Act. Requires the Secretary, within 30 days after enactment, to report to Congress on the funds he plans to commit to nitrite substitute research, on the sources of such funds, and any recommendations about the funding necessary to fully effect such research. | 2025-09-02T17:11:35Z | |
| 95-hr-14112 | 95 | hr | 14112 | Cooperative Rangeland Research Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-09-18 | 1978-09-18 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Poage, W. R. [D-TX-11] | TX | D | P000398 | 0 | Cooperative Rangeland Research Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with the several States and provide eligible State-certified institutions of higher learning with matching funds to carry out programs of research in rangeland management, including: (1) forage production; (2) crop and waste product utilization; (3) improvement of watershed conditions; and (4) revegetation and rangeland rehabilitation. | 2025-09-02T17:11:35Z | |
| 95-hr-14074 | 95 | hr | 14074 | International Sugar Stabilization Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-09-13 | 1978-09-13 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Stockman, David A. [R-MI-4] | MI | R | S000935 | 0 | International Sugar Stabilization Act - Title I: International Sugar Agreement, 1977 - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes criminal penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Import Restrictions on Sugar - Establishes 12 cents per pound raw value as the price objective for domestic sugar. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to monitor the average daily price of sugar. Directs the Secretary to recommend to the President the imposition of import fees and quotas, if necessary, in order to attain the price objective for domestic sugar. Authorizes the President to proclaim such import fees and quotas after receiving a recommendation from the Secretary. Authorizes the President to impose a quota or duty on the importation of sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Establishes civil penalties for the violation of such regulations. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Permits the President to suspend the operation of this Title in a national emergency. Title III: Payments to Producers of Sugar Beets and Sugarcane - Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to establish for crop years 1979-1982 a program of payments to eligible producers of sugar beets and sugarcane. Sets forth the formula for determining the amount of such payments. Title IV: Labor Provisions - Requires every producer of sugar beets and sugarcane to pay each employee a fair and reasonable wage. Limits the employment of children up to the age of 16 in the production of sugar beets and sugarcane. Prohibits any employer from discriminating against any empl… | 2025-09-02T17:11:33Z | |
| 95-hr-14047 | 95 | hr | 14047 | International Sugar Stabilization Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-09-11 | 1978-09-11 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Stockman, David A. [R-MI-4] | MI | R | S000935 | 0 | International Sugar Stabilization Act - Title I: International Sugar Agreement, 1977 - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes criminal penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Import Restrictions on Sugar - Establishes 12 cents per pound raw value as the price objective for domestic sugar. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to monitor the average daily price of sugar. Directs the Secretary to recommend to the President the imposition of import fees and quotas, if necessary, in order to attain the price objective for domestic sugar. Authorizes the President to proclaim such import fees and quotas after receiving a recommendation from the Secretary. Authorizes the President to impose a quota or duty on the importation of sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Establishes civil penalties for the violation of such regulations. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Permits the President to suspend the operation of this Title in a national emergency. Title III: Payments to Producers of Sugar Beets and Sugarcane - Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to establish for crop years 1979-1982 a program of payments to eligible producers of sugar beets and sugarcane. Sets forth the formula for determining the amount of such payments. Title IV: Labor Provisions - Requires every producer of sugar beets and sugarcane to pay each employee a fair and reasonable wage. Limits the employment of children up to the age of 16 in the production of sugar beets and sugarcane. Prohibits any employer from discriminating against any emplo… | 2025-09-02T17:11:32Z | |
| 95-hr-14027 | 95 | hr | 14027 | Nitrite Substitute Research Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-09-08 | 1978-09-08 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Leach, James A. [R-IA-1] | IA | R | L000169 | 1 | Nitrite Substitute Research Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct or arrange for the conduct of: (1) further research on the effects of nitrites on animals other than the Sprague-Dawley species of rat; and (2) research on possible nitrite substitutes, and preservative methods and processes, or combinations thereof, that may be used in the preservation of meat, poultry, or fish. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress, one year after enactment, about the actions he has taken to develop an acceptable nitrite substitute. Directs the Secretary to petition the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for the issuance of a regulation prescribing conditions for the safe use of any such nitrite substitute. Authorizes the Secretary to reallocate funds appropriated for the Department of Agriculture for other agricultural research programs to conduct the research required by this Act. Requires the Secretary, within 30 days after enactment, to report to Congress on the funds he plans to commit to nitrite substitute research, on the sources of such funds, and any recommendations about the funding necessary to fully effect such research. | 2025-09-02T17:11:29Z | |
| 95-hr-14006 | 95 | hr | 14006 | A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from prohibiting the use of nitrites as food preservatives as the basis of any carcinogenic effect nitrates may be represented to have until a satisfactory substitute is commercially available. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-09-07 | 1978-09-07 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Evans, David W. [D-IN-6] | IN | D | E000239 | 0 | Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from taking any action under the Wholesome Meat Act or any other law to prohibit the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect in humans that nitrites may be represented to have, unless validated evidence is made available to the Secretary which proves beyond a reasonable doubt that nitrites as a food preservative have a significant carcinogenic effect on humans. States that such prohibition shall not apply if the Secretary determines, and publishes in the Federal Register, that a food preservative is commercially available: (1) which may be used in the place of nitrites; (2) which is effective in the protection of public health from botulism and other forms of food poisoning; and (3) the use of which is economically feasible for meat processors and the consumer. Requires the Secretary to conduct or support (by grant or contract) research and development activities for a food preservative alternative to nitrites. | 2024-08-01T20:06:52Z | |
| 95-hr-14007 | 95 | hr | 14007 | A bill to prohibit the Secretary of HEW from prohibiting the use of nitrites as food preservatives as the basis of any carcinogenic effect nitrates may be represented to have until a satisfactory substitute is commercially available. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-09-07 | 1978-09-07 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Evans, David W. [D-IN-6] | IN | D | E000239 | 0 | Prohibits the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from taking any action under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act or any other law to prohibit the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis on any carcinogenic effect in humans that nitrites may be represented to have, unless validated evidence is made available to the Secretary which proves beyond a reasonable doubt that nitrites as a food preservative have a significant carcinogenic effect on humans. States that such prohibition shall not apply if the Secretary determines, and publishes in the Federal Register, that a food preservative is commercially available: (1) which may be used in the place of nitrites; (2) which is effective in the protection of public health from botulism and other forms of food poisoning; and (3) the use of which is economically feasible for meat processors and the consumer. Requires the Secretary to conduct or support (by grant or contract) research and development activities for a food preservative alternative to nitrites. | 2024-08-01T20:06:52Z | |
| 95-hr-14008 | 95 | hr | 14008 | A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, for purposes of requiring persons who purchase meat or meat food products from packers to pay for such purchases within eight days. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-09-07 | 1978-09-07 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Harsha, William H. [R-OH-6] | OH | R | H000281 | 0 | Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to require any person who purchases any meat or meat food product from any packer to pay for such meat or meat food product within eight days of acceptance of delivery, unless purchaser and packer have agreed to another payment date. Establishes a civil penalty for violation of this Act in an amount not to exceed the sum of the purchase price of the meat or meat food product involved, plus ten percent of such price. | 2024-08-01T20:06:52Z | |
| 95-hr-13984 | 95 | hr | 13984 | A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from prohibiting the use of nitrites as a food preservative on the basis of any carcinogenic effect nitrites may be represented to have until a satisfactory substitute preservative is commercially available. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-09-06 | 1978-09-06 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Mathis, Dawson [D-GA-2] | GA | D | M000244 | 1 | Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from taking any action under the Wholesome Meat Act or any other law to prohibit the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect in humans that nitrites may be represented to have, unless validated evidence is made available to the Secretary which proves beyond a reasonable doubt that nitrites as a food preservative have a significant carcinogenic effect on humans. States that such prohibition shall not apply if the Secretary determines, and publishes in the Federal Register, that a food preservative is commercially available: (1) which may be used in the place of nitrites; (2) which is effective in the protection of public health from botulism and other forms of food poisoning; and (3) the use of which is economically feasible for meat processors and the consumer. Requires the Secretary to conduct or support (by grant or contract) research and development activities for a food preservative alternative to nitrites. | 2024-08-01T20:06:52Z | |
| 95-hr-13985 | 95 | hr | 13985 | A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from prohibiting the use of nitrites as a food preservative on the basis of any carcinogenic effect nitrites may be represented to have until the development of a satisfactory alternative food preservative. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-09-06 | 1978-09-06 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Mathis, Dawson [D-GA-2] | GA | D | M000244 | 1 | Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, from taking any action under the Wholesome Meat Act, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or any other law to prohibit the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect in humans that nitrites may be represented to have, unless validated evidence is made available to the Secretaries which proves beyond a reasonable doubt that nitrites as a food preservative have a significant carcinogenic effect on humans. States that such prohibition shall not apply if the Secretaries determine, and publish in the Federal Register, that a food preservative is commercially available: (1) which may be used in the place of nitrites; (2) which is effective in the protection of public health from botulism and other forms of food poisoning; and (3) the use of which is economically feasible for meat processors and the consumer. Requires the Secretaries to conduct or support (by grant or contract) research and development activities for a food preservative alternative to nitrites. | 2024-08-01T20:06:52Z | |
| 95-s-3456 | 95 | s | 3456 | A bill to amend the Federal Seed Act. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-08-24 | 1978-08-24 | Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Talmadge, Herman E. [D-GA] | GA | D | T000035 | 0 | Amends the Federal Seed Act to delete the list of noxious-weed seeds and to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to establish by regulation the kinds of weed seeds that would be considered noxious when occurring in imported seed. Deletes the definition of seed "type". Revises the definition of "pure-live seed." Prohibits the shipment of agricultural and of lawn and turf seed into a State if the seed contains weed seeds in excess of the percentage permitted by State law. Requires labeling the rate of occurrence of noxious-weed seeds in vegetable seeds, and prohibits certain noxious-weed seeds in packages of one pound or more. Removes, with respect to interstate commerce and to importation in foreign commerce, the requirement for labeling treated seed when the seed bears only nontoxic amounts of substances (or no substance at all) and is within the tolerances recognized by regulations of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for food or feed. Requires the distinctive coloring of any seed which does bear a harmful substance. Exempts from existing detailed labeling requirements seed shipped between branches of the same wholesale seed company, if the invoice or records accompanying such seed bear statements containing the information that would otherwise be required on the labeling. Deletes the list of kinds of screenings of seeds exempt from importation prohibition, and authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish by regulation the kinds of screenings to be exempted. Requires that, before a rule or regulation is promulgated under such Act, interested persons shall be given an opportunity to present views in writing or orally, or to request a public hearing. Increases the maximum forfeiture for violation of such Act from $500 to $1,000. Extends the prohibition now applicable only to the sale of uncertified seed, to the offer for sale or advertisement of such seed as well. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 95-s-3460 | 95 | s | 3460 | International Emergency Food Fund Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-08-24 | 1978-08-24 | Placed on calendar in Senate. | Senate | Sen. Dole, Robert J. [R-KS] | KS | R | D000401 | 0 | International Emergency Food Fund Act - Title I: International Emergency Food Fund - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire food for donation or sale through purchases from producers or in the open market (in such manner which will not unduly disrupt the market), in order to: (1) provide urgent humanitarian relief in any nation suffering a major natural disaster whose needs for food relief cannot be timely satisfied under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954; (2) assist, on an emergency basis, any developing nation to meet its food requirements, when the domestic supply of an agricultural commodity in the United States is so limited that quantities of it cannot be made available under such Act; and (3) fulfill any international obligation of the United States. Requires the Secretary to use the authorities, facilities, and up to $500,000,000 of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out this title. Exempts food acquired under this title from any quantitative export limitations imposed under the Export Administration Act of 1969. Title II: Price Support Loans on 1977 Crop Sugar - Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to require, at the option of a sugar owner, acceleration of the maturity date of loans on 1977 crop sugar to the date of enactment. Requires the Secretary, within 30 days after such owner elects to advance the maturity date, to move such sugar out of its present Commodity Credit Corporation storage warehouses in the sugar-producing area, and transport it to another area, to make way for the processing and storage of the 1978 crop under the price support loan program. | 2025-09-02T17:14:30Z | |
| 95-hr-13919 | 95 | hr | 13919 | A bill to make storage space available for 1978 crop sugar. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-08-17 | 1978-08-17 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15] | TX | D | D000203 | 4 | Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to require, at the option of a sugar owner, acceleration of the maturity date of loans on 1977 crop sugar to August 31, 1978, or the date of enactment, whichever is earlier. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, within 30 days after such maturity date, to move such sugar out of its present Commodity Credit Corporation storage warehouses in sugar-producing areas, and transport it to other areas, in oder to make way for storage of the 1978 crop under the price support loan program. | 2024-08-01T20:06:52Z | |
| 95-hr-13942 | 95 | hr | 13942 | A bill to delay any action which may be taken by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare respecting nitrites used as a food preservative on the basis of any carcinogenic effect nitrites may be represented to have. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-08-17 | 1978-08-17 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Wampler, William C. [R-VA-9] | VA | R | W000121 | 1 | Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture under the Wholesome Meat Act, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or any other law, to ban the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect they may be represented to have in humans, until three months after the submission of the results of the study required by the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act. | 2024-08-01T20:06:52Z | |
| 95-hr-13967 | 95 | hr | 13967 | Food Safety and Nutrition Amendments | Agriculture and Food | 1978-08-17 | 1978-08-17 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 8 | Food Safety and Nutrition Amendments - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require food processors to: (1) notify the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare of any possibly adulterated food; (2) establish a food coding system; (3) maintain food distribution records; and (4) register with the Secretary. Provides for administrative detention of food believed to be adulterated. Requires: (1) State and local food labeling requirements to comply with Federal standards under such Act; (2) packaged perishable food to show the sell date; (3) certain labeling information regarding ingredients; and (4) importers to notify the Secretary of the identity of the imported food and the registration of the food processor. | 2025-09-02T17:11:28Z | |
| 95-hr-13899 | 95 | hr | 13899 | A bill to delay any action which may be taken by the Secretary of Agriculture respecting nitrites used as a food preservative on the basis of any carcinogenic effect nitrites may be represented to have. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-08-16 | 1978-08-16 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Wampler, William C. [R-VA-9] | VA | R | W000121 | 1 | Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from taking any action under the Wholesome Meat Act or any other law to ban the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect they may be represented to have in humans, until three months after the submission of the results of the study required by the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act. | 2024-08-01T20:06:42Z | |
| 95-hres-1320 | 95 | hres | 1320 | A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that any action respecting nitrites by the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare because of any carcinogenic effect that nitrites may be represented to have should be delayed until after the completion of the study required by the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-08-16 | 1978-08-16 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Martin, James G. [R-NC-9] | NC | R | M000183 | 1 | Declares that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare should take no action to prohibit the sale, distribution, or use of nitrites as a food preservative solely on the basis of any carcinogenic effect they may be represented to have in humans, until three months after the submission of the results of the study required by the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act. | 2024-08-01T19:56:49Z | |
| 95-s-3417 | 95 | s | 3417 | A bill to increase the amount for which loans may be made by the Commodity Credit Corporation to farmers for the construction or remodeling of grain storage facilities on the farm. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-08-16 | 1978-08-16 | Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Anderson, Wendell R. [D-MN] | MN | D | A000202 | 9 | Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to increase from $50,000 to $100,000 the amount for which loans may be made to farmers for the construction or remodeling of feed grain, rice, or soybean storage facilities on the farm. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 95-s-3424 | 95 | s | 3424 | A bill to amend section 8 of Public Law 93-233 to permit California to continue cash payments to SSI recipients in lieu of food stamps. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-08-16 | 1978-08-16 | Referred to Senate Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Cranston, Alan [D-CA] | CA | D | C000877 | 0 | Specifies conditions under which a State is authorized to continue cash payments in lieu of food stamps to SSI (Supplemental Security Income) recipients. | 2024-08-01T20:10:55Z | |
| 95-hr-13848 | 95 | hr | 13848 | International Sugar Agreement Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-08-11 | 1978-08-11 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Vanik, Charles A. [D-OH-22] | OH | D | V000047 | 1 | International Sugar Agreement Act - Title I: International Sugar Agreement, 1977 - Authorizes the President to limit the entry into the United States of sugar from foreign countries, territories, and areas not members of the International Sugar Organization, and to prohibit the entry of any quantity of sugar without a valid certificate of contribution, in order to enforce the provisions of the International Sugar Agreement, 1977. Requires the President to report annually to Congress: (1) information about the general level of world and domestic prices of sugar and their relationship to any domestic United States sugar support program; and (2) a summary of domestic and international actions taken under the Agreement to protect the interests of United States consumers and producers. Title II: Sugar Import Adjustments - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to determine the price per pound, raw value, (but not less than 14.5 cents per pound, raw value) below which he has reason to believe that sugar should not be sold in the domestic market during each sugar supply year (October 1-September 30). Authorizes the Secretary to impose import fees on the entry of sugar in any recognized commercial form in that amount (not exceeding 20 cents per pound, raw value) determined necessary to achieve the price objective. Requires the Secretary to review the effect on such fees on a supply year quarter basis, and to adjust them, if appropriate, in order to achieve the price objective. Directs the President to establish any global quotas recommended by the Secretary, with which he concurs. Authorizes the President to suspend any fees or quotas, or any other operation of this Title, in the event of a national economic or other emergency with respect to sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Title from investing in sugar. Establishes criminal and civil penalties for violations of this Act. | 2025-09-02T17:11:23Z | |
| 95-s-3400 | 95 | s | 3400 | A bill to make storage space available for 1978 crop sugar. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-08-11 | 1978-08-11 | Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Stone, Richard (Dick) [D-FL] | FL | D | S000962 | 0 | Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to require, at the option of a sugar owner, acceleration of the maturity date of loans on 1977 crop sugar to August 31, 1978, or the date of enactment, whichever is earlier. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, within 30 days after such maturity date, to move such sugar out of its present Commodity Credit Corporation storage warehouses in sugar-producing areas, and transport it to other areas, in order to make way for storage of the 1978 crop under the price support loan program. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 95-s-3397 | 95 | s | 3397 | Farm Crop Insurance Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-08-10 | 1978-08-10 | Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Helms, Jesse [R-NC] | NC | R | H000463 | 0 | Farm Crop Insurance Act - Raises the amount of capital stock of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation authorized by the Federal Crop Insurance Act from $100,000,000 to $400,000,000. Increases the maximum compensation of members of the FCIC Advisory Committee and of members of the Board of Directors who are not otherwise employed by the Government to no greater than the daily rate for GS-18. Eliminates county crop insurance committees and associations of producers from the administration of the insurance program. Makes insurance available to producers of rice, peanuts, and tobacco as well as of wheat, cotton, grain sorghum, corn, and barley wherever they are grown commercially. Increases the insurance coverage of an average crop yield from 75 percent to 90 percent. Authorizes insurance against prevented planting losses caused by floods. Provides for a 25 percent Federal subsidy of each participant's premium. Removes the $12,000,000 limitation on funds that may be made available by direct appropriation and creates within the United States Treasury a separate revolving fund available, without fiscal year limitation, for administrative and operating expenses of the Corporation and for other purposes. Grants the Corporation discretionary borrowing authority. Authorizes the Government to reimburse the Corporation for the depletion of premium reserves paid in by farmers caused by administrative and operating expenses. | 2025-09-02T17:14:30Z | |
| 95-hr-13814 | 95 | hr | 13814 | A bill to amend section 8 of Public Law 93-233 to permit California to continue cash payments to SSI recipients in lieu of food stamps. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-08-09 | 1978-08-17 | Referred to House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Corman, James C. [D-CA-21] | CA | D | C000780 | 0 | (Reported to House from the Committee on Ways and Means with amendment, H. Rept. 95-1516 (Part I)) Specifies conditions under which a State is authorized to continue cash payments in lieu of food stamps to SSI (Supplemental Security Income) recipients, but prohibits additional cash payments for any month beginning before October 1, 1978, or ending after September 30, 1979. | 2024-08-01T20:06:48Z | |
| 95-hr-13818 | 95 | hr | 13818 | Marketing Assistance Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-08-09 | 1978-08-09 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Smith, Neal Edward [D-IA-4] | IA | D | S000596 | 0 | Marketing Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Commodity Credit Corporation, to buy and sell substantially equivalent quantities of any commodity for which a reserve program has been established, to the extent needed to properly handle, rotate, distribute, and relocate such reserve or facilitate the operation of the price support program. Requires such sales to be at an equivalent or higher price than the purchases, allowing for customary location and grade differentials. Requires purchases to offset sales within two market days. Directs the Secretary to make available a daily list showing the price, location, and quantity of the transactions entered into pursuant to this Act. | 2025-09-02T17:11:20Z | |
| 95-hr-13750 | 95 | hr | 13750 | International Sugar Stabilization Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-08-04 | 1978-10-15 | Senate agreed to conference report. | House | Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15] | TX | D | D000203 | 24 | (Conference report filed in House, H. Rept. 95-1807) International Sugar Stabilization Act - =Title I: Sugar Program - Chapter 1: Short Title and Definitions= - Defines the terms used in this Act. =Chapter 2: International Sugar Agreement, 1977= - Authorizes the President, after the International Sugar Agreement, 1977, enters into force for the United States and until January 1, 1983, to: (1) regulate the entry, or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption in the customs territory of the United States, of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and prohibit the entry of any shipment of sugar without a valid certificate of contribution; (2) require appropriate record-keeping as to the entry, distribution, prices, and consumption of sugar and alternative sweetners; and (3) take such other necessary or appropriate action to implement the rights and obligations of the United States under such Agreement. Establishes criminal penalties for violation of the reporting requirements of, and any regulations issued to carry out, this title. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the operation and effect of such Agreement. =Chapter 3: Import Restrictions on Sugar= - Sets the market price objective for the sugar supply year beginning after September 30, 1978, at 15 cents per pound of sugar, raw value. Sets the price objective for the 1979 sugar supply year at 15.8 cents per pound, raw value, adjusted according to a specified formula. Establishes a formula by which the price objective for each succeeding year will be increased by one percent above the price objective of the preceding sugar supply year. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to determine on a continuing basis the average daily price for United States raw sugar imports and to monitor the prices of sugar and sugar-containing products in the import trade of the United States. Authorizes price support payments to producers and processors of up to 0.75 cents per pound, raw value, for the 1978 sug… | 2024-08-01T20:06:49Z | |
| 95-hr-13751 | 95 | hr | 13751 | Sugar Stabilization Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-08-04 | 1978-08-04 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15] | TX | D | D000203 | 18 | Sugar Stabilization Act - Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to limit the entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption in the United States, of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and otherwise to regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to determine, during the July preceding the commencement of each (October 1 to September 30) sugar supply year, the amount of sugar needed to meet the requirements of consumers in the United States. Sets the price of 16 cents per pound of sugar, raw value, delivered to New York (including freight and the applicable tariff and fees) as the price objective for the sugar supply year 1978. Establishes formulae for determining the price objectives for succeeding sugar supply years. Authorizes the Secretary: (1) to establish, and to adjust, a quota for the entry of sugar from foreign countries; and (2) to impose an import fee in order to attain the established price objective. Prohibits filling of the established quota by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the entry of sugar-containing products. Prohibits: (1) the entry of sugar, liquid sugar, or sugar-containing products after the import quotas have been filled; (2) the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually; and (3) the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Requires every producer of sugar beets and sugarcane for sugar to pay a specifi… | 2025-09-02T17:11:25Z | |
| 95-hr-13541 | 95 | hr | 13541 | Perishable Food Protection Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-07-19 | 1978-07-19 | Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor. | House | Rep. Sisk, B. F. [D-CA-15] | CA | D | S000454 | 0 | Perishable Food Protection Act - Prohibits a strike or a lockout affecting a perishable food processing operation unless the union or employer gives written notice to the Secretaries of Agriculture and Labor at least 30 days prior to beginning such strike or lockout. Allows either the union, the employer, or any State Secretary of Agriculture to petition the Secretaries of Agriculture and Labor jointly to appoint an arbitrator. Makes the arbitrator's decision on all issues which are mandatory subjects of bargaining under the National Labor Relations Act final and binding upon all parties, except that the aggrieved party may appeal to a United States court of appeals. Allows a United States district court to enjoin any work stoppage occuring without the required 30 days notice. | 2025-09-02T17:11:18Z | |
| 95-s-3271 | 95 | s | 3271 | An Act to amend the pilot project workfare provisions of the Food Stamp Act of 1977. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-07-10 | 1978-09-30 | Public Law 95-400. | Senate | Sen. Talmadge, Herman E. [D-GA] | GA | D | T000035 | 0 | Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 with respect to the two workfare pilot projects involving the performance of work in return for food stamp benefits in each of the seven administrative regions of the Food and Nutrition Service of the Department of Agriculture. Sets the deadline for an interim report on such projects at no later than October 1, 1979, and for a final report at no later than October 1, 1980. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 95-s-3272 | 95 | s | 3272 | An Act to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-07-10 | 1978-10-02 | Public Law 95-409. | Senate | Sen. Talmadge, Herman E. [D-GA] | GA | D | T000035 | 2 | (Reported to Senate from the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry with amendment, S. Rept. 95-1053) Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 to authorize the use of value based on percentage tariffs by firms selling livestock on a commission basis. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to appoint an interagency task force within the Department of Agriculture to analyze and recommend methods by which sellers of livestock or their agents may disclose to livestock marketing agencies, dealers, or packers the existence of liens or security interests in or against their livestock. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 95-hr-13281 | 95 | hr | 13281 | Sugar Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-06-23 | 1978-06-23 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Vanik, Charles A. [D-OH-22] | OH | D | V000047 | 0 | Sugar Act - Sets forth the policy of Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement 1977 - Authorizes the President to limit or prohibit the importation of sugar and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Import Adjustments - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to determine each July, the minimum domestic market price per pound for the coming sugar supply year (October 1 through September 30 of the two succeeding calender years). Establishes a minimum price of $13.50 cents per pound, raw sugar equivalent. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee to achieve the domestic market price objective. Requires the Secretary to recommend to the President quotas for the importation of sugar if necessary to achieve the domestic price objective. Exempts certain items from the fee and quota provisions. Title III: Sugar Payment Program - Directs the Commodity Credit Corporation to make deficiency payments available to processors or producers of domestic sugarbeets and sugarcane each year through the 1982 sugar supply year. Specifies the formula that should be used. Conditions such payments on: (1) fair and reasonable wages for employees as determined by the Secretary of Labor; and (2) observance of specified restrictions concerning the employment of children under age 16. Title IV: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Grants jurisdiction to the U.S. district courts to enforce this Act. Specifies penalties for violations of this Act. Requires all persons engaged in the manufacturing, marketing, or transportation or industrial use of sugar to furnish the Secretary information on request. Prohibits investments or speculation in sugar by officials engaged in the administration of this Act. Directs the President to suspend the operation of Title II of this Act in a national emergenc… | 2025-09-02T17:11:03Z | |
| 95-hr-13216 | 95 | hr | 13216 | Consumer Beef-Grading Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-06-21 | 1978-06-21 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Richmond, Frederick W. [D-NY-14] | NY | D | R000232 | 6 | Consumer Beef-Grading Act - Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a Task Force on Beef-Grading Standards, which shall make determinations and recommendations with respect to establishing new beef-grading standards to replace existing standards. Specifies nutritional, cost, consumer preference, health need, and other factors to be considered by the Task Force. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish new beef-grading standards within three months after receiving the Task Force's recommendations. Requires the Secretary to establish a consumer education program regarding the new standards, including the preparation of notices for display at retail stores. | 2025-09-02T17:11:00Z | |
| 95-hr-13200 | 95 | hr | 13200 | Meat and Poultry Inspection Consumer Protection Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-06-19 | 1978-06-19 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Richmond, Frederick W. [D-NY-14] | NY | D | R000232 | 7 | Meat and Poultry Inspection Consumer Protection Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to increase the fines and maximum prison terms for bribery of and assaults on Federal meat and poultry inspectors, and for other violations of the respective Acts. Subjects any person, firm, or corporation guilty of such violations to liability for a civil penalty of not more than $5,000 for each violation. | 2025-09-02T17:10:59Z | |
| 95-hr-13163 | 95 | hr | 13163 | A bill to require the General Accounting Office to conduct an annual audit of certain records to assist the Secretary of Agriculture in determining the amount of grain stored by any person under any program carried out by the Commodity Credit Corporation. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-06-16 | 1978-06-16 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Bauman, Robert E. [R-MD-1] | MD | R | B000244 | 0 | Requires the General Accounting Office to conduct an annual audit of all records by any person pertaining to the amount of grain being stored by such person under any program carried out by the Commodity Credit Corporation. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to review and consider such audit results in preparing any statistics regarding the actual or estimated quantity of grains in storage. | 2024-08-01T20:06:07Z | |
| 95-hr-13179 | 95 | hr | 13179 | Sugar stabilization Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-06-16 | 1978-06-16 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Treen, David C. [R-LA-3] | LA | R | T000362 | 2 | Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violations of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transports, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest i… | 2025-09-02T17:11:01Z | |
| 95-hr-13149 | 95 | hr | 13149 | A bill to amend the pilot project workfare provisions of the Food Stamp Act of 1977. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-06-15 | 1978-09-19 | Measure laid on table in House, S. 3271 passed in lieu. | House | Rep. Richmond, Frederick W. [D-NY-14] | NY | D | R000232 | 0 | Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 with respect to two pilot projects involving the performance of work in return for food stamp benefits. Sets the deadline for an interim report on such projects at no later than October 1, 1979, and for a final report at no later than October 1, 1980. | 2024-08-01T20:06:19Z | |
| 95-sres-477 | 95 | sres | 477 | A resolution expressing the disapproval of the Senate of the President's announcement of his intention to suspend the quota on meat imports and to permit additional meat imports. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-06-09 | 1978-06-09 | Referred to Senate Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Culver, John C. [D-IA] | IA | D | C000979 | 18 | Disapproves the suspension of the quota on imported meat and the President's announced intention of permitting the import this year of 200,000,000 pounds of meat in excess of the established limit before imposing new quotas. | 2024-08-01T20:07:40Z | |
| 95-hr-12926 | 95 | hr | 12926 | A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to provide that individuals who participate in psychiatric residential treatment programs shall be eligible to receive food stamps. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-06-01 | 1978-06-01 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-6] | FL | R | Y000031 | 0 | Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to grant eligibility to receive food stamps to individuals who participate in psychiatric residential treatment programs conducted by a private nonprofit organization or institution approved licensed, or certified by the State, for meals prepared and served under such programs. | 2024-08-01T20:05:59Z | |
| 95-hr-12811 | 95 | hr | 12811 | Humane Methods of Slaughter Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-05-22 | 1978-05-22 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Kemp, Jack [R-NY-38] | NY | R | K000086 | 0 | Humane Methods of Slaughter Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to appoint inspectors to examine the method by which cattle sheep and other equines are slaughtered and handled in the Federal Meat Inspection Act. Provides that such inspectors shall prevent the inhumane slaughtering of livestock. Directs such inspectors to label, mark, stamp or tag as "inspected and condemned" all carcasses of animals which were not slaughtered by a humane method. Forbids the importation of meat into the United States unless the livestock from which it was produced was slaughtered by a humane method. | 2025-09-02T17:10:45Z | |
| 95-hr-12813 | 95 | hr | 12813 | A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, for the purpose of repealing the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to determine rates and charges for stockyard services. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-05-22 | 1978-05-22 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Mathis, Dawson [D-GA-2] | GA | D | M000244 | 0 | Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to repeal the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to determine rates and charges for stockyard services. Requires the authorized State department, agency, or association which is registered as a market agency to determine brand inspection fees. | 2024-08-01T20:05:59Z | |
| 95-hr-12815 | 95 | hr | 12815 | Sugar Stabilization Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-05-22 | 1978-05-22 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Mathis, Dawson [D-GA-2] | GA | D | M000244 | 3 | Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violations of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transports, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest i… | 2025-09-02T17:10:48Z | |
| 95-hr-12784 | 95 | hr | 12784 | Sugar Stabilization Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-05-18 | 1978-05-18 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 0 | Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violations of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transports, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest i… | 2025-09-02T17:10:48Z | |
| 95-s-3092 | 95 | s | 3092 | Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1978 | Agriculture and Food | 1978-05-17 | 1978-10-10 | Public Law 95-445. | Senate | Sen. Dole, Robert J. [R-KS] | KS | R | D000401 | 1 | (Reported to Senate from the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry with amendment, S. Rept. 95-1059) Humane methods of Slaughter Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to appoint inspectors to examine the methods by which cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines are handled and slaughtered in those establishments which slaughter such animals for commercial use. Authorizes the Secretary to temporarily suspend inspection upon a finding that any livestock has been handled or slaughtered in a method contrary to those specified in the Humane Slaughter Act of 1958. Forbids the importation of meat into the United States unless the livestock from which it was produced was slaughtered by a humane method. Amends the Humane Slaughter Act of 1958 to repeal provisions which confined the required application of humane methods to establishments which sold to the Federal Government. Eliminates the identification procedures and purchasing policies promulgated with such provisions. Stipulates that specified types of religious ritual slaughter are exempt from all provisions of this Act. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 95-hr-12742 | 95 | hr | 12742 | Sugar Stabilization Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-05-16 | 1978-05-16 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Stangeland, Arlan [R-MN-7] | MN | R | S000795 | 4 | Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violations of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transports, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest i… | 2025-09-02T17:10:43Z | |
| 95-hr-12702 | 95 | hr | 12702 | A bill to amend section 6 (d)(1) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-05-12 | 1978-05-12 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Kindness, Thomas N. [R-OH-8] | OH | R | K000190 | 1 | Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to deny eligibility for food stamps to any household including a person participating in a strike or labor dispute which the President determines is causing or substantially contributing to: (1) a critical shortage of any essential resource or strategic material; or (2) unemployment in an industry not directly involved in such strike or labor dispute. | 2024-08-01T20:05:52Z | |
| 95-hr-12709 | 95 | hr | 12709 | National Sweetener Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-05-12 | 1978-05-12 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Symms, Steven D. [R-ID-1] | ID | R | S001138 | 0 | National Sweetener Act - Title I: The National Sweetener Advisory Board - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish the National Sweetener Advisory Board which shall, each marketing year, make non-binding recommendations to the Secretary regarding sweetener marketing quotas. Title II: Marketing Quotas - Directs the Secretary to establish an overall quota for the marketing of sweetener products within the United States, subdivided into marketing quotas for domestic-source and for foreign-source sweetener products, and subdivided further, in the domestic-source category, into three individual quotas for products made from domestically grown sugar beets, sugarcane, and corn, respectively. Specifies the consumers needs, market expansion, and price objective factors to be taken into consideration in the determination of each quota. Directs the Secretary to assign individual marketing quotas to individual processors and refiners of domestic-source sweetener crops, based on specified factors. Requires the provision of administrative and judicial review procedures for such individuals aggrieved by the assignment or non-assignment of quotas. Prescribes administrative penalties for exceeding quotas. Directs the Secretary to allocate the overall marketing quota for foreign- source sweeteners to specifically licensed individual refiners of raw sugar products, with the same review rights and penalty liabilities as the processors and refiners of domestic-source sweetener products. States that import licenses under the quota program shall be nonnegotiable. Exempts from such quota and license requirements imported sugar, liquid sugar, and other sweetener products which are re-exported in the form of refined sugar and/or other sweetener-containing products. Authorizes the Secretary to extend such exemption to sweetener products imported for use as livestock feed, distillation of alcohol (not for human consumption), or any other sweetener deemed appropriate. Authorizes the Secretary to extend the quota and license syste… | 2025-09-02T17:10:43Z | |
| 95-hr-12667 | 95 | hr | 12667 | Sugar Stabilization Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-05-10 | 1978-05-10 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Mathis, Dawson [D-GA-2] | GA | D | M000244 | 5 | Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violations of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transports, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest i… | 2025-09-02T17:10:42Z | |
| 95-s-3055 | 95 | s | 3055 | National Sweetener Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-05-10 | 1978-05-10 | Referred to Senate Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Haskell, Floyd K. [D-CO] | CO | D | H000317 | 0 | National Sweetener Act - Title I: The National Sweetener Advisory Board - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish the National Sweetener Advisory Board which shall, each marketing year, make non-binding recommendations to the Secretary regarding sweetener marketing quotas. Title II: Marketing Quotas - Directs the Secretary to establish an overall quota for the marketing of sweetener products within the United States, subdivided into marketing quotas for domestic-source and for foreign-source sweetener products, and subdivided further, in the domestic-source category, into three individual quotas for products made from domestically grown sugar beets, sugarcane, and corn, respectively. Specifies the consumers needs, market expansion, and price objective factors to be taken into consideration in the determination of each quota. Directs the Secretary to assign individual marketing quotas to individual processors and refiners of domestic-source sweetener crops, based on specified factors. Requires the provision of administrative and judicial review procedures for such individuals aggrieved by the assignment or non-assignment of quotas. Prescribes administrative penalties for exceeding quotas. Directs the Secretary to allocate the overall marketing quota for foreign-source sweeteners to specifically licensed individual refiners of raw sugar products, with the same review rights and penalty liabilities as the processors and refiners of domestic-source sweetener products. States the import licenses under the quota program shall be nonnegotiable. Exempts from such quota and license requirements imported sugar, liquid sugar, and other sweetener products which are re-exported in the form of refined sugar and/or other sweetener-containing products. Authorizes the Secretary to extend such exemption to sweetener products imported for use as livestock feed, distillation of alcohol (not for human consumption), or any other sweetener deemed appropriate. Authorizes the Secretary to extend the quota and license system… | 2025-09-02T17:14:14Z | |
| 95-hr-12604 | 95 | hr | 12604 | Sugar Stabilization Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-05-08 | 1978-05-08 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Treen, David C. [R-LA-3] | LA | R | T000362 | 9 | Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violations of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transports, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest i… | 2025-09-02T17:10:41Z | |
| 95-hr-12544 | 95 | hr | 12544 | A bill to amend the tariff schedules to provide for mixed animal feeds containing soybeans. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-05-03 | 1978-05-03 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Frenzel, Bill [R-MN-3] | MN | R | F000380 | 0 | Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to include animal feeds which are admixtures of soybeans (rather than grains) and other specified products in the definitions of "mixed feeds" and "mixed-feed ingredients." | 2024-08-01T20:05:48Z | |
| 95-hr-12486 | 95 | hr | 12486 | Sugar Stabilization Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-05-02 | 1978-05-02 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15] | TX | D | D000203 | 24 | Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violations of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transports, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest i… | 2025-09-02T17:10:35Z | |
| 95-hr-12492 | 95 | hr | 12492 | International Sugar Agreement Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-05-02 | 1978-05-02 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Lederer, Raymond F. [D-PA-3] | PA | D | L000187 | 0 | International Sugar Agreement Act - Title I: Short Title, Declaration of Policy, Definitions - Sets forth the policy of the United States with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title II: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to limit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Title III: Domestic Sugar Price Support Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Directs the President to impose a fee on the importation of sugar in order to attain specified price objectives for domestic sugar. Authorizes the President to impose a quota on sugar imports, in accordance with certain restrictions. Makes such quota inapplicable to sugar imported for specified uses. Declares the domestic sugar price support program, but not the import fee and quota authority, to be a program within the Agricultural Act of 1949. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a system of domestic sugar price support payments, in accordance with specified formulae. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transport, or industrial use of sugar. Suspends other price support programs for sugar. Title IV: General Provisions - Prohibits officials engaged in the Administration of this Act to invest in sugar. Sets forth penalties for violation of this Act, or rules and regulations issued under this Act. | 2025-09-02T17:10:35Z | |
| 95-hr-12513 | 95 | hr | 12513 | A bill to amend the Commodity Exchange Act for the purposes of revising certain violations of such Act, establishing restitution procedures with respect to such violations, and authorizing civil forfeiture proceedings with respect to such violations, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-05-02 | 1978-05-02 | Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary. | House | Rep. Mathis, Dawson [D-GA-2] | GA | D | M000244 | 0 | Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to increase from $100,000 to $500,000 the fine and from five to ten years the imprisonment term for specified prohibited acts by any person in connection with any account, agreement, or transportation involving a regulated options contract for the sale of an agricultural commodity for future delivery. Authorizes a civil cause of action for triple damages and reasonable attorney's fees by any person injured by a prohibited act. Authorizes the district court with jurisdiction over either a criminal trial or civil action brought by a State to order all or any part of a fine or judgment to be paid to the victim of the offense or to the injured person. Directs the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as plaintiff in an in rem civil proceeding, to seize money, securities, or property that a defendant has been ordered to forfeit to the United States, and to make due provision for the rights of any innocent person from the proceeds of any disposition of such property. Authorizes the Commission to perform the duties of customs officers in the enforcement of this Act. | 2024-08-01T20:05:43Z | |
| 95-hr-12428 | 95 | hr | 12428 | National Consumer Nutrition Information Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-04-27 | 1978-04-27 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Richmond, Frederick W. [D-NY-14] | NY | D | R000232 | 10 | National Consumer Nutrition Information Act - States the findings of Congress. Title I: Interdepartmental Planning and Coordination and Intradepartmental Coordination - Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a National Nutrition Education Council to plan and coordinate the activities of Federal agencies concerning nutrition education and nutrition education research. Title II: Research and Demonstration Projects on Dissemination of Nutrition Information to Consumers at the Community Level - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct, between April 1, 1979 and September 30, 1981, in standard metropolitan and rural areas, demonstration projects pertaining to dissemination of nutrition information. Requires: (1) consumer participation in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of such projects; (2) the utilization of local resources and services; and (3) at least two projects each through the Department, local government units, and nonprofit organizations. Title III: Demonstration Program on Graphic Labeling - Directs the Secretary to conduct studies and demonstrations of methods of graphically indicating nutritional values of fresh fruit and vegetables in supermarkets and other places where consumers purchase groceries. Title IV: Television Demonstration Projects - Directs the Secretary to solicit and receive proposals for the purpose of producing not more than 15 public service announcements concerning the relationship between diet and health and concerning methods of achieving a healthy diet. Title V: General Provisions - Defines terms used in this Act. | 2025-09-02T17:10:32Z | |
| 95-hr-12388 | 95 | hr | 12388 | Dairy Herd Reduction Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-04-26 | 1978-04-26 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Jeffords, James M. [R-VT-At Large] | VT | R | J000072 | 13 | Dairy Head Reduction Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Agricultural Stablilization and Conservation Service and the Commodity Credit Corporation, to make incentive payments to any qualified dairyman of 15 cents per pound with respect to: (1) any dairy cow which such person markets and delivers for slaughter; and (2) any bred dairy heifer or dairy cow exported. Limits the number of animals for which such payments may be made to those in excess of 12 percent but not more than 25 percent of the average number of dairy cows which the dairyman owns during the 90 day period preceding the enactment of this Act. | 2025-09-02T17:10:32Z | |
| 95-hr-12373 | 95 | hr | 12373 | Consumer Beef-Grading Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-04-25 | 1978-04-25 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Richmond, Frederick W. [D-NY-14] | NY | D | R000232 | 0 | Consumer Beef-Grading Act - Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a Task Force on Beef-Grading Standards, which shall make determinations and recommendations with respect to establishing new beef-grading standards to replace existing standards. Specifies nutritional, cost, consumer preference, health need, and other factors to be considered by the Task Force. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish new beef-grading standards within three months after receiving the Task Force's recommendations. Requires the Secretary to establish a consumer education program regarding the new standards, including the preparation of notices for display at retail stores. | 2025-09-02T17:10:32Z | |
| 95-s-2990 | 95 | s | 2990 | Sugar Stabilization Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-04-25 | 1978-04-25 | Referred to Senate Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Church, Frank [D-ID] | ID | D | C000388 | 33 | Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transport, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest in … | 2025-09-02T17:14:06Z | |
| 95-hr-12309 | 95 | hr | 12309 | A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-04-24 | 1978-04-24 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Bowen, David R. [D-MS-2] | MS | D | B000682 | 0 | Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 to restrict the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to determine the justness or reasonableness of any stockyard service rate or charge to only those rates or charges for services at stockyards which have a certain minimum annual sales volume. | 2024-08-01T20:05:35Z | |
| 95-hr-12271 | 95 | hr | 12271 | Dairy Herd Reduction Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-04-20 | 1978-04-20 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. McDade, Joseph M. [R-PA-10] | PA | R | M000399 | 0 | Dairy Herd Reduction Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service and the Commodity Credit Corporation, to make incentive payments to any qualified dairyman of 15 cents per pound with respect to: (1) any dairy cow which such person markets and delivers for slaughter; and (2) any bred dairy heifer or dairy cow exported. Limits the number of animals for which such payments may be made to those in excess of 12 percent but not more than 25 percent of the average number of dairy cows which the dairyman owns on April 1, 1978. | 2025-09-02T17:10:24Z | |
| 95-hr-12223 | 95 | hr | 12223 | Botulism Prevention Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-04-19 | 1978-04-19 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Hagedorn, Thomas M. [R-MN-2] | MN | R | H000012 | 1 | Botulism Prevention Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture, for a two-year period, from issuing any order or regulation: (1) restricting the use of nitrites or nitrates as preservatives in meat products beyond the degree recommended in the final report of the Department of Agriculture's Expert Panel on Nitrates, Nitrites, and Nitrosamines; or (2) requiring labeling on meat products concerning nitrites or nitrates in addition to the requirements in effect on January 1, 1978. | 2025-09-02T17:10:24Z | |
| 95-hr-12239 | 95 | hr | 12239 | Beef Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-04-19 | 1978-04-19 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Abdnor, James [R-SD-2] | SD | R | A000009 | 0 | Beef Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require imported equine meat products capable of use as human food (1) to be labeled as imported, and (2) to be tested for chemical substances. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to assess fees for the testing and labeling of such products. Authorizes the Secretary to suspend imports for failure to pay such assessments. Amends the policy of Congress to restrict the importation of beef, veal, goat, and sheep meat, and live cattle to specified amounts after December 31, 1978. Prescribes a formula for adjustment of such quota. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to allocate such quota among supplying countries according to certain criteria. Decreases the percentage by which estimates of such annual imports must exceed the imports of the preceding calendar year before triggering the imposition of import quotas. Permits the President to suspend an import quota proclamation if it determined that domestic cattle producers are operating at a reasonable profit. Permits the President to prohibit or curtail the importation of any products covered by this Act if it is determined that such action is required by the economic or national security interests of the United States. | 2025-09-02T17:10:28Z | |
| 95-hr-12129 | 95 | hr | 12129 | Beef Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-04-13 | 1978-04-13 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Pressler, Larry [R-SD-1] | SD | R | P000513 | 0 | Beef Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require imported equine meat products capable of use as human food (1) to be labeled as imported, and (2) to be tested for chemical substances. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to assess fees for the testing and labeling of such products. Authorizes the Secretary to suspend imports for failure to pay such assessments. Amends the policy of Congress to restrict the importation of beef, veal, goat, and sheep meat, and live cattle to specified amounts after December 31, 1978. Prescribes a formula for adjustment of such quota. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to allocate such quota among supplying countries according to certain criteria. Decreases the percentage by which estimates of such annual imports must exceed the imports of the preceding calendar year before triggering the imposition of import quotas. Permits the President to suspend an import quota proclamation if it determined that domestic cattle producers are operating at a reasonable profit. Permits the President to prohibit or curtail the importation of any products covered by this Act if it is determined that such action is required by the economic or national security interests of the United States. | 2025-09-02T17:10:22Z | |
| 95-s-2918 | 95 | s | 2918 | A bill to permit marketing orders to include provisions concerning marketing promotion, including paid advertisement, of raisins and distribution among handlers of the pro rata costs of such promotion. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-04-13 | 1978-04-13 | Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Dole, Robert J. [R-KS] | KS | R | D000401 | 0 | Permits marketing orders under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to include provisions concerning marketing promotion, including paid advertisement, of raisins. Authorizes distribution among producers of the pro rata costs of such promotion. Requires the Secretary to submit a report to the appropriate Congressional committees describing in detail how this Act has been implemented, particularly with regard to assessments collected. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 95-hr-12074 | 95 | hr | 12074 | Natural Resources Conservation Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-04-12 | 1978-04-12 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Thone, Charles [R-NE-1] | NE | R | T000234 | 0 | Natural Resources Conservation Act - Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to extend the Great Plains conservation program to all contiguous States of the continental United States designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as susceptible to serious water and wind erosion. Provides for contracts of three to ten years duration, renewable for additional periods not to exceed 20 years. Requires an annual contract payment of up to $50 per acre for agreements to preserve or establish shelterbelts. Removes existing cost ceilings and authorizes the appropriation of $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1979, $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1980, and $200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983. | 2025-09-02T17:10:17Z | |
| 95-hr-12087 | 95 | hr | 12087 | International Emergency Wheat Reserve Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-04-12 | 1978-04-12 | Referred to House Committee on International Relations. | House | Rep. Zablocki, Clement J. [D-WI-4] | WI | D | Z000001 | 1 | International Emergency Wheat Reserve Act - Declares it to be United States policy to develop a wheat reserve in compliance with the Wheat Trade Convention. Directs the President to establish a wheat reserve. Sets forth acquisition, storage, and release procedures with respect to such reserves. Exempts such reserves from the "total domestic supply" of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and the quantitative export limitations of the Export Administration Act of 1969. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to utilize the funds and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out this Act. | 2025-09-02T17:10:19Z | |
| 95-hr-12101 | 95 | hr | 12101 | Farmer-to-Consumer Direct Marketing Act Amendments | Agriculture and Food | 1978-04-12 | 1978-09-19 | Measure failed of passage in House under suspension of rules, roll call #797 (237-163). | House | Rep. Richmond, Frederick W. [D-NY-14] | NY | D | R000232 | 1 | (Reported to House from the Committee on Agriculture with amendment, H. Rept. 95-1483) Amends the Farmer-to-Consumer Direct Marketing Act of 1976 to extend for one year until September 30, 1979, at the current level of $1,500,000 the authorization of appropriations for direct marketing assistance within the States. | 2025-09-02T17:10:18Z | |
| 95-hr-11882 | 95 | hr | 11882 | Botulism Prevention Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-04-05 | 1978-04-05 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Hagedorn, Thomas M. [R-MN-2] | MN | R | H000012 | 1 | Botulism Prevention Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture, for a two-year period, from issuing any order or regulation: (1) restricting the use of nitrites or nitrates as preservatives in meat products beyond the degree recommended in the final report of the Department of Agriculture's Expert Panel on Nitrates, Nitrites, and Nitrosamines; or (2) requiring labeling on meat products concerning nitrites or nitrates in addition to the requirements in effect on January 1, 1978. | 2025-09-02T17:10:13Z | |
| 95-s-2833 | 95 | s | 2833 | A bill to amend, improve, and clarify the Farmer-to-Consumer Direct Marketing Act of 1976. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-04-05 | 1978-05-25 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | Senate | Sen. Abourezk, James [D-SD] | SD | D | A000017 | 0 | (Reported to Senate from the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry with amendment, S. Rept. 95-854) Amends the Farmer-to-Consumer Direct Marketing Act of 1976: (1) to extend such Act through fiscal year 1981, and (2) to authorize the appropriation of $3,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1979-1981 to provide direct marketing assistance within the States. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 95-s-2795 | 95 | s | 2795 | Potato Production Reform Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-03-23 | 1978-03-23 | Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Hathaway, William D. [D-ME] | ME | D | H000346 | 0 | Potato Production Reform Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to formulate and carry out a program under which producers of potatoes shall be paid to set aside and devote to approved conservation uses an acreage of potato cropland. Requires such payment rate or rates as the Secretary determines to be fair and reasonable, and requires 50 percent of any payment in advance of determination of performance. | 2025-09-02T17:14:00Z | |
| 95-hr-11761 | 95 | hr | 11761 | National Consumer Nutrition Information Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-03-22 | 1978-03-22 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Richmond, Frederick W. [D-NY-14] | NY | D | R000232 | 9 | National Consumer Nutrition Information Act - States the findings of Congress. Title I: Interdepartmental Planning and Coordination and Interdepartmental Coordination - Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a National Nutrition Education Council to plan and coordinate the activities of Federal agencies concerning nutrition education and nutrition education research. Title II: Research and Demonstration Projects on Dissemination of Nutrition Information to Consumers at the Community Level - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct, between April 1, 1979 and September 30, 1981, in standard metropolitan and rural areas, demonstration projects pertaining to dissemination of nutrition information. Requires: (1) consumer participation in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of such projects; (2) the utilization of local resources and services; and (3) at least two projects each through the Department, local government units, and nonprofit organizations. Title III: Demonstration Program on Graphic Labeling - Directs the Secretary to conduct studies and demonstrations of methods of graphically indicating nutritional values of fresh fruit and vegetables in supermarkets and other places where consumers purchase groceries. Title IV: Television Demonstration Projects - Directs the Secretary to solicit and receive proposals for the purpose of producing not more than 15 public service announcements concerning the relationship between diet and health and concerning methods of achieving a healthy diet. Title V: General Provisions - Defines terms used in this Act. | 2025-09-02T17:10:06Z | |
| 95-hr-11787 | 95 | hr | 11787 | A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt from the overtime compensation requirements of that Act Federal employees engaged in the grading of fruits and vegetables. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-03-22 | 1978-03-22 | Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor. | House | Rep. Krebs, John H. [D-CA-17] | CA | D | K000325 | 0 | Exempts Federal fruit or vegetable graders from minimum wage and maximum hour provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 95-hr-11602 | 95 | hr | 11602 | A bill to amend section 6 (d) (1) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-03-16 | 1978-03-16 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Kindness, Thomas N. [R-OH-8] | OH | R | K000190 | 18 | Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to deny eligibility for food stamps to any household including a person participating in a strike or labor dispute which the President determines is causing or substantially contributing to: (1) a critical shortage of any essential resource or strategic material; or (2) unemployment in an industry not directly involved in such strike or labor dispute. | 2024-08-01T20:05:03Z | |
| 95-hr-11626 | 95 | hr | 11626 | Botulism Prevention Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-03-16 | 1978-03-16 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Hagedorn, Thomas M. [R-MN-2] | MN | R | H000012 | 21 | Botulism Prevention Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture, for a two-year period, from issuing any order or regulation: (1) restricting the use of nitrites or nitrates as preservatives in meat products beyond the degree recommended in the final report of the Department of Agriculture's Expert Panel on Nitrates, Nitrites, and Nitrosamines; or (2) requiring labeling on meat products concerning nitrites or nitrates in addition to the requirements in effect on January 1, 1978. | 2025-09-02T17:10:01Z | |
| 95-hr-11468 | 95 | hr | 11468 | A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, for the purpose of repealing the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to determine rates and charges for stockyard services. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-03-13 | 1978-03-13 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Evans, Billy Lee [D-GA-8] | GA | D | E000233 | 0 | Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to repeal the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to determine rates and charges for stockyard services. Requires the authorized State department, agency, or association which is registered as a market agency to determine brand inspection fees. | 2024-08-01T20:04:56Z | |
| 95-hr-11496 | 95 | hr | 11496 | A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-03-13 | 1978-03-13 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Thornton, Ray [D-AR-4] | AR | D | T000243 | 2 | Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 to restrict the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to determine the justness or reasonableness of any stockyard service rate or charge to only those rates or charges for services at stockyards which have a certain minimum annual sales volume. | 2024-08-01T20:04:56Z | |
| 95-s-2737 | 95 | s | 2737 | Beef Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-03-13 | 1978-03-13 | Referred to Senate Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. McGovern, George [D-SD] | SD | D | M000452 | 3 | Beef Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require imported equine meat products capable of use as human food (1) to be labeled as imported, and (2) to be tested for chemical substances. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to assess fees for the testing and labeling of such products. Authorizes the Secretary to suspend imports for failure to pay such assessments. Amends the policy of Congress to restrict the importation of beef, veal, goat, and sheep meat, and live cattle to specified amounts after December 31, 1978. Prescribes a formula for adjustment of such quota. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to allocate such quota among supplying countries according to certain criteria. Decreases the percentage by which estimates of such annual imports must exceed the imports of the preceding calendar year before triggering the imposition of import quotas. Permits the President to suspend an import quota proclamation if it determined that domestic cattle producers are operating at a reasonable profit. Permits the President to prohibit or curtail the importation of any products covered by this Act if it is determined that such action is required by the economic or national security interests of the United States. | 2025-09-02T17:14:00Z | |
| 95-hr-11327 | 95 | hr | 11327 | Botulism Prevention Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-03-07 | 1978-03-07 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Hagedorn, Thomas M. [R-MN-2] | MN | R | H000012 | 24 | Botulism Prevention Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture, for a two-year period, from issuing any order or regulation: (1) restricting the use of nitrites or nitrates as preservatives in meat products beyond the degree recommended in the final report of the Department of Agriculture's Expert Panel on Nitrates, Nitrites, and Nitrosamines; or (2) requiring labeling on meat products concerning nitrites or nitrates in addition to the requirements in effect on January 1, 1978. | 2025-09-02T17:09:49Z | |
| 95-hr-11337 | 95 | hr | 11337 | Beef Import Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-03-07 | 1978-03-07 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Pickle, J. J. [D-TX-10] | TX | D | P000328 | 8 | Beef Import Act - Title I: Import Quotas - Revises the quotas on the importation of beef. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to determine the domestic production quantity of beef each quarter in order that the import quota may be determined. Directs the Secretary to establish a system for the equitable distribution of such quota among importers. Title II: Customs Duties - Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase the customs duties on beef whenever domestic production is too low to trigger the imposition of import quotas. | 2025-09-02T17:09:57Z | |
| 95-hr-11248 | 95 | hr | 11248 | Beef Import Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-03-02 | 1978-03-02 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15] | TX | D | D000203 | 0 | Beef Import Act - Title I: Import Quotas - Revises the quotas on the importation of beef. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to determine the domestic production quantity of beef each quarter in order that the import quota may be determined. Directs the Secretary to establish a system for the equitable distribution of such quota among importers. Title II: Customs Duties - Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase the customs duties on beef whenever domestic production is too low to trigger the imposition of import quotas. | 2025-09-02T17:09:53Z | |
| 95-hr-11252 | 95 | hr | 11252 | A bill to amend section 6(d)(1) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-03-02 | 1978-03-02 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Kindness, Thomas N. [R-OH-8] | OH | R | K000190 | 24 | Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to deny eligibility for food stamps to any household including a person participating in a strike or labor dispute which the President determines is causing or substantially contributing to: (1) a critical shortage of any essential resource or strategic material; or (2) unemployment in an industry not directly involved in such strike or labor dispute. | 2024-08-01T20:04:49Z | |
| 95-hr-11259 | 95 | hr | 11259 | WIC Amendments | Agriculture and Food | 1978-03-02 | 1978-03-02 | Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor. | House | Rep. Simon, Paul [D-IL-24] | IL | D | S000423 | 1 | WIC Amendments - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide the funds necessary to enable all States to operate or expand programs that provide supplemental nutrition and nutrition education to pregnant and breastfeeding women, infants, and children (WIC programs). Requires each State to publicize the availability of WIC program benefits, using bilingual material in areas where a substantial number of low-income households speak a language other than English. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for WIC programs through fiscal year 1982. States that 20 percent of the funds appropriated for WIC programs shall be made available for State and local agency operational costs. Requires each State to submit annual plans describing how WIC program funds will be used. Requires States to hold public hearings on such plans. Increases the membership of the National Advisory Council on Maternal, Infant, and Fetal Nutrition from 15 to 20 members. Adds representatives from specified groups, among them, Indian WIC programs and migrant WIC programs. Directs the Secretary to require all States receiving funds under this Act to insure continuous availability of program benefits to eligible migrant agricultural workers as they move from State to State. Requires the Secretary to issue regulations to prevent the dual receipt of benefits under the WIC program and the commodity supplemental food program. | 2025-09-02T17:09:54Z | |
| 95-s-2630 | 95 | s | 2630 | WIC Amendments | Agriculture and Food | 1978-03-02 | 1978-03-02 | Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. | Senate | Sen. Humphrey, Muriel [D-MN] | MN | D | H000956 | 12 | WIC Amendments - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide the funds necessary to enable all States to operate or expand programs that provide supplemental nutrition and nutrition education to pregnant and breastfeeding women, infants, and children (WIC programs). Requires each State to publicize the availability of WIC program benefits, using bilingual material in areas where a substantial number of low-income households speak a language other than English. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for WIC programs through fiscal year 1982. States that 20 percent of the funds appropriated for WIC programs shall be made available for State and local agency operational costs. Requires each State to submit annual plans describing how WIC program funds will be used. Requires States to hold public hearings on such plans. Increases the membership of the National Advisory Council on Maternal, Infant, and Fetal Nutrition from 15 to 20 members. Adds representatives from specified groups, among them, Indian WIC programs and migrant WIC programs. Directs the Secretary to require all States receiving funds under this Act to insure continuous availability of program benefits to eligible migrant agricultural workers as they move from State to State. Requires the Secretary to issue regulations to prevent the dual receipt of benefits under the WIC program and the commodity supplemental food program. | 2025-09-02T17:13:54Z | |
| 95-s-2624 | 95 | s | 2624 | Beef Import and Labeling Act | Agriculture and Food | 1978-03-01 | 1978-03-01 | Referred to Senate Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Bentsen, Lloyd M. [D-TX] | TX | D | B000401 | 4 | Beef Import and Labeling Act - Title I: Import Quotas and Customs Duties - Revises the quotas on the importation of beef. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to determine the domestic production quantity of beef each quarter in order that the import quota may be determined. Directs the Secretary to establish a system for the equitable distribution of such quota among importers. Repeals current beef import quotas, and the authority of the President to suspend or increase such quota. Title II: Meat Import Labeling - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require that any imported meat or meat food product made in whole or in part of imported meat be labeled "imported", "imported in part", or with the name of the country of origin. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to assess exporters of meat to the United States for the cost of such labeling. | 2025-09-02T17:13:53Z | |
| 95-hr-11134 | 95 | hr | 11134 | A bill to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to permit States to impose inspection, marking, labeling, packaging, and ingredient requirements that are more stringent than Federal standards. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-02-23 | 1978-02-23 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Ruppe, Philip E. [R-MI-11] | MI | R | R000512 | 4 | Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to permit States to impose inspection, marking, labeling, packaging, and ingredient requirements that are more stringent than Federal standards. | 2024-08-01T20:04:41Z | |
| 95-hres-1043 | 95 | hres | 1043 | A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that emergency action should be taken by the President and the Secretary of Agriculture to bolster the farm economy. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-02-23 | 1978-02-23 | Referred to House Committee on International Relations. | House | Rep. Jones, Ed [D-TN-7] | TN | D | J000216 | 0 | Declares the sense of the House of Representatives that the President and the Secretary of Agriculture should exercise the broad authority vested in them under the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 and other statutes to increase farm income. Urges action: (1) to institute voluntary land diversion programs for 1978 for wheat, feed grains, and upland cotton; (2) to impose a uniform limitation on the acreage planted to upland cotton in 1978, amounting to a 20 percent reduction from the cotton acreage in 1977; (3) to establish price support loan rates for the 1978 crops of wheat, feed grains, and soybeans at levels sufficient to cover the average cost of production; and (4) to formulate and implement a program for the expansion of export sales of American agricultural commodities, including increased sales under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480). | 2024-08-01T19:56:38Z | |
| 95-hr-11066 | 95 | hr | 11066 | A bill to require that imported meat and meat food products made in whole or in part of imported meat be subjected to certain tests and that such meat or products be identified as having been imported; to require the inspection of imported dairy products and that such products comply with certain minimum standards of sanitation; to require that the cost of conducting such tests, inspections, and identification procedures on imported meat and meat food products and on dairy products, as the case may be, be borne by the exporters of such articles, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-02-22 | 1978-02-22 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Kazen, Abraham, Jr. [D-TX-23] | TX | D | K000025 | 0 | Title I: Meat and Meat Products - Requires, under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the package or container of any imported meat or meat products capable of use as human food to be labeled in such a way as to inform consumers that such product was imported. Requires that such products meet the same health standards as domestically produced meats. Requires testing of imported meat in the countries from which such meat is being imported. Directs that periodic tests be conducted in the United States by the Department of Agriculture also. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe such assessments and fees as he determines necessary to cover the Departments costs under this Title. Title II: Dairy Products - Prohibits the importation of dairy products into the United States unless the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare certifies the products as wholesome and pure. Requires the Secretary to establish standards for imported products comparable to standards imposed upon domestic dairy products. Directs the Secretary, where and to the extent necessary, to inspect imported dairy products and require such products to be accompanied by a certificate of compliance issued by the Secretary. Requires imported dairy products to comply with United States labeling and packaging requirements. Requires that imported dairy products be labeled in such a way as to inform consumers that such product was imported. | 2024-08-01T20:04:41Z | |
| 95-hr-11091 | 95 | hr | 11091 | A bill to require that imported meat and meat food products made in whole or in part of imported meat be subjected to certain tests and that such meat or products be identified as having been imported; to require the inspection of imported dairy products and that such products comply with certain minimum standards of sanitation; to require that the cost of conducting such tests, inspections, and identification procedures on imported meat and meat food products and on dairy products, as the case may be, be borne by the exporters of such articles, and for other purposes. | Agriculture and Food | 1978-02-22 | 1978-02-22 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Tucker, James G., Jr. (Jim Guy) [D-AR-2] | AR | D | T000400 | 1 | Title I: Meat and Meat Products - Requires, under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the package or container of any imported meat or meat products capable of use as human food to be labeled in such a way as to inform consumers that such product was imported. Requires that such products meet the same health standards as domestically produced meats. Requires testing of imported meat in the countries from which such meat is being imported. Directs that periodic tests be conducted in the United States by the Department of Agriculture also. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe such assessments and fees as he determines necessary to cover the Department's costs under this title. Title II: Dairy Products - Prohibits the importation of dairy products into the United States unless the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare certifies the products as wholesome and pure. Requires the Secretary to establish standards for imported products comparable to standards imposed upon domestic dairy products. Directs the Secretary, where and to the extent necessary, to inspect imported dairy products and require such products to be accompanied by a certificate or compliance issued by the Secretary. Requires that imported dairy products be labeled in such a way as to inform consumers that such product was imported. | 2024-08-01T20:04:41Z |
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