US Congress Senate Bill 3042 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on June 11 2018 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-06-18 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 470.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 This bill (commonly known as the farm bill) reauthorizes through FY2023 and modifies Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs that address: commodity support, conservation, trade and international food aid, nutrition assistance, farm credit, rural development, research and extension activities, forestry, energy, horticulture, and crop insurance. The bill modifies agriculture and nutrition policies to: require farmers to make a new one-time election to obtain either Price Loss Coverage or Agricultural Risk Coverage for the 2019-2023 crop years; replace the Dairy Margin Protection Program with Dairy Risk Coverage and modify coverage levels and premiums; make Indian tribes and tribal organizations eligible for supplemental agricultural disaster assistance programs; reduce the adjusted gross income limitation for receiving benefits under commodity and conservation programs; modify funding levels and requirements for several conservation programs, consolidate several existing trade and export promotion programs into a new Priority Trade Promotion, Development, and Assistance program; legalize industrial hemp and make hemp producers eligible for the federal crop insurance program; establish an interstate data system to prevent the simultaneous issuance of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) benefits to an individual by more than one state; increase the loan limits for farm ownership and operating loans; modify the experience requirement for farm ownership loans; authorize a categorical exclusion from requirements for environmental assessments and environmental impact statements for certain forest management projects with the primary purpose of protecting, restoring, or improving habitat for the greater sage-grouse or mule deer; and modify the organic certification requirements for imported agricultural products.

Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018

Sen. Pat Roberts [R-KS]

Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-06-18	Senate	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 470.
2018-06-18	Senate	Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Reported by Senator Roberts with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
2018-06-13	Senate	Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
2018-06-11	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

HB2 (Related) 2018-12-20 - Became Public Law No: 115-334.
HB51 (Related) 2017-01-13 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.
HB1380 (Related) 2017-04-25 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
HB1402 (Related) 2017-03-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.
HB1434 (Related) 2017-03-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
HB2218 (Related) 2017-05-19 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
HB2436 (Related) 2017-06-08 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.
HB2521 (Related) 2017-11-01 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
HB2941 (Related) 2017-11-01 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
HB3566 (Related) 2017-09-01 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
HB3567 (Related) 2017-11-01 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
HB4420 (Related) 2017-12-05 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
HB4945 (Related) 2018-03-08 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
HB5184 (Related) 2018-03-28 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
HB5316 (Related) 2018-04-30 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
HB5325 (Related) 2018-03-20 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
HB5485 (Related) 2018-04-12 - Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and the Judiciary, 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.
HB6500 (Related) 2018-07-24 - Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
HB6610 (Related) 2018-07-26 - Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
SB3360 (Related) 2018-08-21 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S5761)
HB7004 (Related) 2018-09-28 - Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
SB2654 (Related) 2018-04-12 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
SB3165 (Related) 2018-06-28 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
HR1176 (Similar To) 2018-12-12 - Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/3042/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s3042/BILLS-115s3042is.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s3042/BILLS-115s3042rs.pdf