Subject Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit | Current

State	Bill	Summary/Title	Last Action
US	SB954	Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 [Detail][Text]	2013-05-21 S.AMDT.998 Amendment SA 998 proposed by Senator Stabenow for Senator Leahy. (consideration: CR S3652)To establish a pilot program for gigabit Internet projects in rural areas.
US	HB1947	Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 [Detail][Text]	2013-05-15 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 36 - 10.
US	SB923	Balancing Food, Farm, and the Environment Act of 2013 [Detail][Text]	2013-05-09 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	HB1890	Balancing Food, Farm, and the Environment Act of 2013 [Detail][Text]	2013-05-08 To House Agriculture Committee
US	SB879	Maple Tapping Access Program Act [Detail][Text]	2013-05-07 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	HB1567	New Fair Deal CEO's Act of 2013 [Detail][Text]	2013-05-03 To House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Committee
US	HB1610	Farming Flexibility Act of 2013 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to consider mung beans and pulse crops as covered commodities whose planting on base acres is prohibited unless the commodity, if planted, is destroyed before har... [Detail][Text]	2013-05-03 To House Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture Committee
US	HB1741	Dairy Freedom Act [Detail][Text]	2013-05-03 To House Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit Committee
US	HB1644	Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to prohibit the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) from paying more than 70% of the premium for any coverage, policy, or plan of insurance. Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to end agr... [Detail][Text]	2013-05-03 To House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Committee
US	SB821	Healthy Food Financing Initiative - Amends the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 to establish in the Department of Agriculture (USDA) a Healthy Food Financing Initiative to provide assistance in order to: (1) improve access to heal... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-25 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	SB837	Beginning Farmer and Rancher Opportunity Act of 2013 [Detail][Text]	2013-04-25 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	HB1727	Beginning Farmer and Rancher Opportunity Act of 2013 [Detail][Text]	2013-04-25 To House Budget Committee
US	SB801	Prairie Protection Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to reduce crop insurance assistance and noninsured crop disaster assistance for crops grown on native sod acreage converted to cropland for the first four years. [Detail][Text]	2013-04-24 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	HB1297	Agricultural Credit Expansion Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to expand eligibility for Farm Service Agency operating loans, farm ownership loans, conservation loans, and emergency loans. Deems specified embedded entitie... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-23 To House Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit Committee
US	HB1442	Depleting Risk from Insect Infestation, Soil Erosion, and Catastrophic Fire Act - Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to state findings concerning the threat to forests in the Western region of the United States posed by the mountain p... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-23 To House Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry Committee
US	SB784	Agricultural Opportunities for Military Veterans Act - Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act regarding the value-added agricultural product market development grants program to: (1) include farmers and ranchers who are veterans among priority r... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-23 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	HB1614	Farm Risk Abatement and Mitigation Election Act of 2013 or the FRAME Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish tax-exempt farm risk management accounts (FRAME Accounts) and allow taxpayers actively engaged in the business of fa... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-18 To House Ways And Means Committee
US	SB754	Shellfish Marketing Assistance Fairness Act - Amends the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 to include farmed shellfish as a specialty crop. [Detail][Text]	2013-04-17 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	HB1590	Shellfish Marketing Assistance Fairness Act - Amends the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 to include farmed shellfish as a specialty crop. [Detail][Text]	2013-04-17 To House Agriculture Committee
US	SB746	Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), for each of the 2014-2018 crops of each market commodity, to make recourse loans available to producers on a farm electing to participate in the prog... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-17 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	SB751	Farming Flexibility Act of 2013 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to consider mung beans and pulse crops as covered commodities whose planting on base acres is prohibited unless the commodity, if planted, is destroyed before har... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-17 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	HB1545	Amends the McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Act and the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to include within the definition of "state" the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. [Detail][Text]	2013-04-12 To House Agriculture Committee
US	HB1454	Makes livestock indemnity payments (at 65% of an animal's market value) through FY2013 to eligible producers on farms that have incurred excess livestock death losses due to: (1) attacks by animals reintroduced into the wild by the federal government... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-10 To House Agriculture Committee
US	SB678	Growing Opportunities for Agriculture and Responding to Markets Act of 2013 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a local farm business and market garden loan program to mak... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-09 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	SB670	Dairy Pricing Reform Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to use a pre-hearing public information session to determine whether to conduct a formal hearing to consider alternative formulas for Class III milk product pricing. Dire... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-09 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	HB1414	Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 [Detail][Text]	2013-04-09 To House Education And The Workforce Committee
US	SB679	Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 [Detail][Text]	2013-04-09 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	SB677	Crop Insurance Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to make available to crop producers a supplemental coverage option (based on area yield and loss) to cover part of a crop insurance policy deductible. Triggers such optio... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-09 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	HB1272	Maple Tapping Access Program Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to make grants to states, tribal governments, and research institutions to promote the domestic maple syrup industry through: (1) promotion of research and education, (... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-02 To House Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture Committee
US	HB933	Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 - Division A: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates FY2013 funds for th... [Detail][Text]	2013-03-26 Became Public Law No: 113-6.
US	SCR8	Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2013, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015-FY2023. Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts - (Sec. 101) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts for FY2013-FY... [Detail][Text]	2013-03-23
US	SB605	Dairy Income Fairness Act of 2013 - Establishes a dairy production margin protection program under which participating dairy operations are paid: (1) basic production margin protection program payments when production margins are less than threshold ... [Detail][Text]	2013-03-19 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	HB754	Vests title to real property and equipment acquired using funds provided by a grant under the Alaska Kiln Drying Grant Program in the grant recipient in accordance with the compensation provisions in this Act. [Detail][Text]	2013-03-13 To House Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Nutrition Committee
US	HB943	Crop Insurance Subsidy Reduction Act - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to reduce crop insurance premium subsidy rates. [Detail][Text]	2013-03-13 To House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Committee
US	SB493	Dairy Augmentation for Increased Retail in Yogurt products (DAIRY) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish tax-exempt dairy farm savings accounts to allow taxpayers engaged in the trade or business of dairy farming to use distributio... [Detail][Text]	2013-03-07 To Senate Finance Committee
US	SB494	Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the special depreciation allowance (bonus depreciation) for dairy producing calves and cows purchased for business use, regardless of whether the original use of such livestock commenced with another taxpayer... [Detail][Text]	2013-03-07 To Senate Finance Committee
US	SB446	Crop Insurance Subsidy Reduction Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to reduce crop insurance premium subsidy rates. [Detail][Text]	2013-03-05 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	HB693	Sugar Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to make loans available to processors of domestically grown sugarcane (18 cents per pound) and sugar beet processors through FY2017. Amends the Agricultural ... [Detail][Text]	2013-03-01 To House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Committee
US	HB699	Stop the Sequester Job Loss Now Act - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to repeal the FY2013 sequester and reduce the FY2014 sequester. Eliminates the 2% maximum permissible reduction in ... [Detail][Text]	2013-03-01 To House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Committee
US	HB686	Protect our Prairies Act - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to reduce crop insurance assistance and noninsured crop disaster assistance for crops grown on native sod acreage converted to cropland for the first four years. [Detail][Text]	2013-03-01 To House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Committee
US	SB388	American Family Economic Protection Act of 2013 - Title I: Budget Provisions - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to revise discretionary spending limits (spending caps) for security and n... [Detail][Text]	2013-02-28 Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to the measure (Record Vote No. 27) entered in Senate.
US	SB345	Sugar Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to make loans available to processors of domestically grown sugarcane (18 cents per pound) and sugar beet processors through FY2017. Amends the Agricultural ... [Detail][Text]	2013-02-14 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	SB334	Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to end agricultural direct payments beginning with the 2013 crop year. [Detail][Text]	2013-02-14 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	SB281	Farm Program Integrity Act of 2013 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to establish a per farm cap of $50,000 on commodity program benefits and $75,000 on marketing loan program benefits ($125,000 total). Increases such limit to $250,000 for marri... [Detail][Text]	2013-02-12 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	SB243	Provides assistance, from Treasury funds not otherwise appropriated, for watersheds adversely affected by qualifying natural disasters. [Detail][Text]	2013-02-07 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	SB141	Makes livestock indemnity payments (at 65% of an animal's market value) through FY2013 to eligible producers on farms that have incurred excess livestock death losses due to: (1) attacks by animals reintroduced into the wild by the federal government... [Detail][Text]	2013-01-24 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	SB10	Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 - Repeals, but continues for crop year 2013: (1) direct payments, (2) countercyclical payments, and (3) the average crop revenue election program (ACRE). Establishes the agriculture risk coverage program... [Detail][Text]	2013-01-22 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
US	HB243	Bowles-Simpson Plan of Lowering America's Debt Act - Prohibits the total amount of appropriations to the White House for the Executive Office of the President, to the President, and to Congress for FY2014-FY2018 from exceeding 85% of the total amount... [Detail][Text]	2013-01-14 To House Budget Committee