US Congress House Bill 3705 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Introduced on July 11 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-08-09 - Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
Pending: House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Eliminates certain Department of Agriculture (USDA) sugar subsidy programs. Specifically, the bill eliminates (1) the price support loan program available to processors of domestically grown sugarcane and sugar beets, (2) the sugar marketing allotments and tariff-rate quotas that limit the quantities of domestically produced sugar that processors may sell and the sugar that may be imported under lower tariff rates, and (3) the feedstock flexibility program for bioenergy producers which operates to avoid loan forfeitures to the USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation by requiring USDA to purchase surplus sugar from domestic processors for resale to bioenergy producers.

SWEET Act Saving Workers by Eliminating Economic Tampering Act

Rep. Scott Perry [R-PA]	Rep. Mike Kelly [R-PA]	Rep. John Joyce [R-PA]	Rep. Lloyd Smucker [R-PA]
Rep. Thomas Massie [R-KY]	Rep. Justin Amash [R-MI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-08-09	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
2019-07-11	House	Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
2019-07-11	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/3705/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr3705/BILLS-116hr3705ih.pdf