US Congress House Concurrent Resolution 20 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-4)
Status: Introduced on February 27 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-09 - 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]

Expressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar producing and consuming countries should be eliminated. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should seek through negotiated agreements under the auspices of the World Trade Organization the elimination of all direct and indirect subsidies benefitting the production or export of sugar by any foreign country that: (1) exported more than 200,000 metric tons of sugar during 2014, or (2) has in effect a free trade agreement with the United States. Urges the President to: (1) report to Congress detailed information about how any of such countries has eliminated such subsidies, and (2) then propose legislation to implement a "zero for zero" sugar subsidy policy.

Expressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar producing and consuming countries should be eliminated.

Rep. Ted Yoho [R-FL]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Kurt Schrader [D-OR]	Rep. Thomas Rooney [R-FL]
Rep. Richard Hudson [R-NC]	Rep. Ted Poe [R-TX]	Rep. Lois Frankel [D-FL]	Rep. Mac Thornberry [R-TX]
Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Rep. Ander Crenshaw [R-FL]	Rep. John Moolenaar [R-MI]
Rep. Alexander Mooney [R-WV]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-09	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
2015-02-27	House	Referred to House Agriculture
2015-02-27	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2015-02-27	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.
2015-02-27	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/20/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hconres20/BILLS-114hconres20ih.pdf