US Congress Senate Bill 678 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: Introduced on April 9 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-04-09 - 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]

Growing Opportunities for Agriculture and Responding to Markets Act of 2013 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a local farm business and market garden loan program to make available to eligible lending entities loans to develop revolving loan funds to assist: (1) producers in establishing local farm business projects or market garden projects that will produce fresh foods locally, and (2) local farm business projects and market garden projects to create local employment opportunities. Sets forth program provisions.

Growing Opportunities for Agriculture and Responding to Markets Act of 2013

Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]

Sen. Tom Harkin [D-IA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-04-09	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/678/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s678/BILLS-113s678is.pdf