US Congress Senate Bill 2086 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on November 7 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-11-07 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Pending: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Sugar Policy Modernization Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 and other agricultural laws to modify the Department of Agriculture (USDA) sugar program. The bill modifies the sugar program to: reduce the rates for price support loans to processors of domestically grown sugarcane and sugar beets; require USDA to recover the net cost of the program from domestic sugar processors; extend through 2019 and then terminate the Feedstock Flexibility Program under which USDA purchases surplus sugar from domestic processors for resale to ethanol producers; extend through 2020 and then repeal the flexible marketing allotments which limit the amount of sugar that domestic processing companies may sell for domestic human use; require USDA to administer the program to provide adequate supplies of sugar at reasonable prices; require USDA to adjust sugar tariff-rate quota imports to achieve specified ratios of sugar stocks to total sugar use; and allow the transfer of quotas between countries.

Sugar Policy Modernization Act of 2017

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Pat Toomey [R-PA]	Sen. Lamar Alexander [R-TN]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]
Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Bob Corker [R-TN]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]	Sen. Dean Heller [R-NV]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]
Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. John McCain [R-AZ]	Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO]	Sen. Rob Portman [R-OH]
Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Ron Johnson [R-WI]	Sen. Jeff Flake [R-AZ]
Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-11-07	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

HB4265 (Related) 2017-11-07 - Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/2086/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s2086/BILLS-115s2086is.pdf