African-American Farmers Benefits Relief Act of 2005

3.0.0 3998 2023-01-13T04:49:56Z 2023-01-13T04:49:56Z House H HR 2005-10-06 109 hsag00 Agriculture Committee House Standing hsag22 Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee Referred to 2005-10-17T18:36:10Z Referred to 2005-10-06T14:05:30Z African-American Farmers Benefits Relief Act of 2005 109 4398 HR 2006-02-06 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims. Related bill CRS Pigford Claims Remedy Act of 2006 109 5575 HR 2006-06-09 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Related bill CRS 2005-10-17 hsag22 Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. Committee 2005-10-06 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsag00 Agriculture Committee 2005-10-06 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2005-10-06 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress M000523 Rep. McKinney, Cynthia A. [D-GA-4] CYNTHIA MCKINNEY D GA A. 4 N T000193 Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2] BENNIE THOMPSON D MS 2 2005-11-04 False Agriculture and Food Agricultural credit Blacks Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Claims Collection of accounts Compensation (Law) Damages Debt Evidence (Law) Farmers Finance and Financial Sector Government liability Law Minorities Racial discrimination Agriculture and Food

00 2005-10-06 Introduced in House 2005-11-08T21:53:57Z Forgives all indebtedness, in connection with all farm operating loan program debt agreements entered into with the Department of Agriculture pursuant to the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, and requires payment of the minimum relief raised in the combined cases Pigford et al. v. Glickman and Brewington et al v. Glickman, with respect to each African-American farmer who: (1) was an "actual farmer" during the period beginning on January 1, 1981, and extending through December 30, 1996; and (2) applied for, but failed to receive, farm credit program debt relief pursuant to specified federal law or through the Black Farmer Settlement as authorized by the previously mentioned cases.

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To provide farm debt and program relief to African-American farmers who suffered discrimination in the administration of Department of Agriculture farm credit programs and other agriculture programs, and for other purposes. Display Title To provide farm debt and program relief to African-American farmers who suffered discrimination in the administration of Department of Agriculture farm credit programs and other agriculture programs, and for other purposes. Official Title as Introduced To provide farm debt and program relief to African-American farmers who suffered discrimination in the administration of Department of Agriculture farm credit programs and other agriculture programs, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Introduced in House 2005-10-06T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109hr3998ih/xml/BILLS-109hr3998ih.xml 2005-10-17 Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. 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.