3.0.0 2401 2023-01-11T16:03:25Z 2023-01-11T16:03:25Z House H HR 2007-05-21 110 hsag00 Agriculture Committee House Standing hsag29 Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Subcommittee Referred to 2007-06-26T13:01:56Z hsag14 Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee Referred to 2007-06-26T13:01:51Z hsag03 Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture Referred to 2007-06-26T13:01:32Z hsag15 Forestry Subcommittee Referred to 2007-06-26T13:01:27Z hsag16 General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit Subcommittee Referred to 2007-06-26T13:01:22Z hsag22 Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee Referred to 2007-06-26T13:01:17Z Referred to 2007-05-21T14:33:05Z hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee House Standing Referred to 2007-05-21T14:33:10Z 2007-06-26 hsag29 Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry. Committee 2007-06-26 hsag00 Agriculture Committee 1 House committee actions Executive Comment Requested from USDA. Committee 2007-06-26 hsag14 Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture. Committee 2007-06-26 hsag03 Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture. Committee 2007-06-26 hsag15 Forestry Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research. Committee 2007-06-26 hsag16 General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management. Committee 2007-06-26 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 2007-05-21 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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 hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee 2007-05-21 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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 2007-05-21 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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 2007-05-21 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2007-05-21 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress B001234 Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43] JOE BACA D CA 43 N N000179 Rep. Napolitano, Grace F. [D-CA-38] GRACE NAPOLITANO D CA F. 38 2007-05-21 True G000535 Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4] LUIS GUTIERREZ D IL V. 4 2007-05-21 True S000248 Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16] JOSE SERRANO D NY E. 16 2007-05-21 True G000551 Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7] Raúl Grijalva D AZ M. 7 2007-05-21 True S001153 Rep. Solis, Hilda L. 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[D-IL-7] DANNY DAVIS D IL K. 7 2007-06-15 False Agriculture and Food Agricultural colleges Agricultural conservation Agricultural education Agricultural labor Agricultural subsidies Air pollution control American Samoa Animals Armed Forces and National Security Authorization Block grants Child nutrition Commerce Congressional reporting requirements Crime and Law Enforcement Criminal investigation Defense procurement Department of Agriculture Disaster relief Economics and Public Finance Education Education savings accounts Elementary and secondary education Emergency Management Entrepreneurs Environmental Protection Executive reorganization Families Farm lands Farmers Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to education Finance and Financial Sector Food industry Food relief Food stamps Foreclosure Fruit Fungicides Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government procurement Grassland ecology Habitat conservation Higher education Hispanic Americans Housing and Community Development Immigrants Immigration Labeling Labor and Employment Marketing of farm produce Migrant labor Military pay Minorities Minority business enterprises Minority education Native Americans Nutrition Organic farming Pest control Pesticides Prosecution Public Lands and Natural Resources Puerto Rico Restrictive trade practices Rural economic development School lunch program Seasonal labor Social Welfare Special prosecutors Vegetables WIC program Welfare eligibility Welfare work participation Wildlife conservation Women Working poor Agriculture and Food 00 2007-05-21 Introduced in House 2007-06-06T17:28:36Z Nutrition and Opportunities for the Underserved and Rural Incentives to Secure the Heartland Act of 2007 or NOURISH Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) establish a program through FY2013 to provide greater access and opportunities for minority and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers to Department of Agriculture programs and services; and (2) establish the USDA Minority Producer Land Preservation Commission (to terminate nine years after enactment of this Act) to review pending Department foreclosure proceedings.

Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to extend authorization of appropriations for education grants for Hispanic-serving institutions.

Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to revise pesticide recordkeeping provisions.

Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to provide for the inclusion of long-term health effects in labeling requirements.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish, within the Department's Office of Civil Rights and Community Outreach of the Risk Management Agency, an office of Farmworker Coordination; (2) establish a conservation initiative for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers; (3) provide cost-share payments and incentive payments to individual producers to address air quality concerns associated with agriculture; (4) implement an integrated pest management initiative in priority areas; and (5) establish the rural regional entrepreneurship program.

Authorizes the Secretary to make emergency grants to assist low-income migrant and seasonal farmworkers.

Revises the Agricultural Fair Practices Act of 1967. Establishes within the Department the Office of Special Counsel for Competition Matters which shall: (1) investigate and prosecute violations of this Act and the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921; and (2) serve as a liaison between, and act in consultation with, the Department and the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with respect to competition and trade practices in the food and agricultural sector.

Provides for Department and Department of Defense procurement of locally produced agricultural products.

Establishes the national organic certification and transition cost share program (in lieu of the current national organic certification cost share program).

Extends the: (1) conservation reserve program; (2) grassland reserve program; (3) environmental quality incentives program; (4) conservation innovation grant program; (5) wildlife habitat incentive program; (6) Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) farmers' market nutrition program; (7) senior farmers nutrition program; (8) the community food project competitive grant program; (9) fresh fruit and vegetable program; and (10) farmers' market promotion program.

Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to rename the food stamp program as the secure nutrition access program (program).

Revises program provisions with respect to: (1) standard deduction increases; (2) combat pay, retirement account, and education account exclusions; (3) minimum benefit increases; (4) countable resource increases; (5) legal immigrant eligibility; (6) work requirements; (7) program administration; (8) cash payment pilot projects; (9) program reauthorization; (10) block grants for Puerto Rico and American Samoa; (11) outreach; (12) natural disasters; (13) Puerto Rico; (14) farmers' markets; and (15) the emergency food assistance program.

]]> Nutrition and Opportunities for the Underserved and Rural Incentives to Secure the Heartland Act of 2007 Display Title Nutrition and Opportunities for the Underserved and Rural Incentives to Secure the Heartland Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced To provide for greater access and opportunities for socially disadvantaged farmers, to create incentives for research, conservation, and market viability, to provide a healthy and just work environment for agricultural workers, to provide Americans with healthier food choices, to address hunger and poverty in the United States, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced Nutrition and Opportunities for the Underserved and Rural Incentives to Secure the Heartland Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced NOURISH Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Agricultural Fair Practices Act of 1967 Introduced in House 2007-05-21T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110hr2401ih/xml/BILLS-110hr2401ih.xml 2007-06-26 Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry. 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.