3.0.0 245 2023-01-15T21:04:27Z 2023-01-15T21:04:27Z House H HR 2003-01-08 108 hsag00 Agriculture Committee House Standing hsag14 Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee Referred to 2003-01-30T16:12:38Z Referred to 2003-01-08T15:07:25Z 2003-01-30 hsag14 Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs. Committee 2003-01-08 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsag00 Agriculture Committee 2003-01-08 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2003-01-08 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress F000441 Rep. Fletcher, Ernie [R-KY-6] ERNEST FLETCHER R KY L. 6 N E000226 Rep. Etheridge, Bob [D-NC-2] BOB ETHERIDGE D NC 2 2003-01-08 True T000038 Rep. Tanner, John S. [D-TN-8] JOHN TANNER D TN 8 2003-01-08 True B000490 Rep. Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. [D-GA-2] SANFORD BISHOP D GA D. 2 2003-01-08 True B000657 Rep. Boucher, Rick [D-VA-9] RICK BOUCHER D VA 9 2003-01-08 True L000293 Rep. Lewis, Ron [R-KY-2] RON LEWIS R KY 2 2003-01-08 True M000316 Rep. McCarthy, Karen [D-MO-5] KAREN MCCARTHY D MO 5 2003-01-08 True L000558 Rep. Lucas, Ken [D-KY-4] KEN LUCAS D KY 4 2003-01-08 True W000119 Rep. Wamp, Zach [R-TN-3] ZACH WAMP R TN 3 2003-01-08 True W000413 Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1] EDWARD WHITFIELD R KY 1 2003-01-08 True P000523 Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4] DAVID PRICE D NC E. 4 2003-01-08 True R000395 Rep. Rogers, Harold [R-KY-5] HAROLD ROGERS R KY 5 2003-01-08 True G000309 Rep. Gordon, Bart [D-TN-6] BART GORDON D TN 6 2003-03-12 False S001157 Rep. Scott, David [D-GA-13] David Scott D GA 13 2003-04-08 False B001238 Rep. Ballance, Frank W., Jr. [D-NC-1] Frank Ballance D NC W. 1 2003-06-18 False M001154 Rep. Miller, Brad [D-NC-13] Brad Miller D NC 13 2003-07-23 False Agriculture and Food Accounting Administrative fees Advice and consent of the Senate Agricultural estimating and reporting Agricultural production Agricultural subsidies Agriculture in foreign trade Auditing Business records Cigarettes Commerce Community development Compensation (Law) Conferences Congress Congressional reporting requirements Department of Agriculture Diversification in industry Economics and Public Finance Executive reorganization Farm production quotas Federal advisory bodies Finance and Financial Sector Financial statements Fines (Penalties) Foreign Trade and International Finance Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Grants-in-aid Housing and Community Development Imports Law Licenses Marketing of farm produce Nonprofit organizations Presidential appointments Rural economic development Smokeless tobacco Social Welfare Tobacco Tobacco exports Tobacco industry User charges Agriculture and Food 00 2003-01-08 Introduced in House 2006-11-28T17:35:40Z Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 with respect to tobacco price supports to: (1) revise such provisions to reflect annual production costs for each type of tobacco; (2) eliminate references to quota tobacco in no net cost provisions; and (3) eliminate tobacco from the definition of "basic agricultural commodity."

Directs the Secretary and cigarette and other tobacco-product manufacturers, respectively, to estimate annual export and domestic quantity and industry purchase requirements. Directs the Secretary to issue to each historic tobacco producer a tobacco production license in order to harmonize annual purchase intentions and production.

Assesses tobacco producers for administrative costs.

Repeals the Tobacco Control Act and specified related provisions ( thus terminating marketing quota program provisions).

Authorizes the establishment of a nonprofit Center for Tobacco-Dependent Communities which shall provide economic and community development assistance to tobacco communities in transition to non-tobacco economies.]]>

Tobacco Equity Elimination Act of 2003 Display Title Tobacco Equity Elimination Act of 2003 Official Title as Introduced To replace the existing Federal price support and quota programs for tobacco with price support and quota programs designed to assist the actual producers of tobacco, to compensate quota holders for the loss of tobacco quota asset value, to provide assistance for active tobacco producers, including those producers who forgo obtaining a tobacco production license, during the transition of the new programs, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced Tobacco Equity Elimination Act of 2003 Introduced in House 2003-01-08T05:00:00Z 2003-01-30 Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.