3.0.0 1706 2023-01-11T19:50:13Z 2023-01-11T19:50:13Z House H HR 2007-03-27 110 hsag00 Agriculture Committee House Standing hsag14 Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee Referred to 2007-05-04T19:11:29Z hsag22 Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee Referred to 2007-05-04T19:10:07Z hsag03 Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture Referred to 2007-05-04T19:09:57Z Referred to 2007-03-27T14:32:00Z hshm00 Homeland Security Committee House Standing hshm11 Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee Referred to 2007-04-13T15:22:27Z Referred to 2007-03-27T14:32:10Z hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing hswm04 Trade Subcommittee Referred to 2007-04-10T16:56:49Z Referred to 2007-03-27T14:32:05Z 2007-05-04 hsag14 Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture. Committee 2007-05-04 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 2007-05-04 hsag03 Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture. Committee 2007-04-13 hshm11 Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism. Committee 2007-04-10 hswm04 Trade Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade. Committee 2007-03-28 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E654-655) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2007-03-27 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Homeland Security, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hshm00 Homeland Security Committee 2007-03-27 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Homeland Security, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hswm00 Ways and Means Committee 2007-03-27 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Homeland Security, 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. IntroReferral H11100-A 9 Library of Congress 2007-03-27 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Homeland Security, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsag00 Agriculture Committee 2007-03-27 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2007-03-27 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress N000181 Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21] Devin Nunes R CA 21 N T000460 Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1] MIKE THOMPSON D CA 1 2007-03-27 True Agriculture and Food Agricultural education Agriculture in foreign trade Commerce Congressional reporting requirements Department of Agriculture Department of Homeland Security Developing countries Education Executive reorganization Export controls Export finance Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to education Federal employees Federal-state relations Federally-guaranteed loans Food safety Foreign Trade and International Finance Fruit Government Operations and Politics Government publicity Higher education Hispanic Americans Import restrictions International Affairs Marketing of farm produce Minorities Minority education Pest control Plants Public Lands and Natural Resources Recruiting of employees Scholarships Subsidies Trade negotiations Vegetables Weeds Agriculture and Food 00 2007-03-27 Introduced in House 2007-05-21T20:31:02Z United States Specialty Crop Export Opportunities Act of 2007 - Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to regulate plants, plant products, biological control organisms, and noxious weeds for export purposes.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) coordinate fruit and vegetable market analyses with the private sector and the Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service; and (2) make publicly available on an Internet website the status of all export petitions and an explanation of the sanitary or phytosanitary issues associated with each pending export petition, and information on the import requirements of foreign countries for fruits and vegetables.

Amends the Homeland Security Act to repeal the transfer of agricultural import and entry inspection functions from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service the international agricultural inspection program to carry out import and entry agricultural inspections; (2) a federal-state agricultural inspection communications system; (3) the International Trade Inspection Advisory Committee; and (4) a special export credit guarantee program.

Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to extend: (1) the promotion of agricultural exports to emerging markets program; and (2) the E. (Kika) de la Garza Agricultural Fellowship program.

]]> United States Specialty Crop Export Opportunities Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced To provide for assistance to United States exporters of certain fruits and vegetables in order to ensure better access to foreign markets. Introduced in House IH Display Title United States Specialty Crop Export Opportunities Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced United States Specialty Crop Export Opportunities Act of 2007 Introduced in House 2007-03-27T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110hr1706ih/xml/BILLS-110hr1706ih.xml 2007-05-04 Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture. 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.