US Congress House Bill 4425 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6)
Status: Introduced on November 16 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-11-16 - Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Pending: House Agriculture Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Food and Farm Act This bill reauthorizes and modifies several Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs that address: commodity support, crop insurance, conservation, food assistance, nutrition, farm credit, beginning farmers and ranchers, food waste, research and educational programs, animal welfare, and regional food systems. The bill modifies agriculture and nutrition policies to: repeal the Agriculture Risk Coverage Program and the Price Loss Coverage Program, impose additional limits on farm subsidies, extend crop insurance premium subsidies to farmers who plant crops to reduce erosion, require recipients of farm subsidies to comply with additional conservation requirements, authorize increased funding for conservation programs, authorize additional assistance under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program for organic farmers, establish a loan program for conservation-based structural improvements, increase Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) benefits, authorize additional assistance for beginning farmers and ranchers, establish the Office of Food Waste within USDA, authorize additional funding for research and education programs, require USDA to comply with certain animal welfare standards at federal agricultural research centers, require USDA to reinstate online posting of Animal Welfare Act and Horse Protection Act enforcement records, and expand grant and loan programs for local and regional food systems.

Food and Farm Act

Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]
Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Pramila Jayapal [D-WA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-11-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2017-11-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2017-11-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2017-11-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2017-11-16	House	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1581)
2017-11-16	House	Introduced in House

HB1276 (Related) 2017-03-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
HB1406 (Related) 2017-03-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
HB3809 (Related) 2017-10-05 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
HB5627 (Related) 2018-04-26 - Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
HB5849 (Related) 2018-06-22 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
HB2436 (Related) 2017-06-08 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4425/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr4425/BILLS-115hr4425ih.pdf