3.0.0 2720 2023-01-12T17:53:00Z 2023-01-12T17:53:00Z House H HR 2007-06-14 110 hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee House Standing hsed02 Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Referred to 2007-09-11T21:30:10Z hsed04 Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee Referred to 2007-09-11T21:26:15Z Referred to 2007-06-14T14:02:50Z hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing hswm04 Trade Subcommittee Referred to 2007-06-27T19:21:07Z Referred to 2007-06-14T14:03:05Z hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee House Standing Referred to 2007-06-14T14:03:00Z hsag00 Agriculture Committee House Standing Referred to 2007-06-14T14:02:45Z 2007-09-11 hsed02 Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Committee 2007-09-11 hsed04 Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. Committee 2007-06-27 hswm04 Trade Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade. Committee 2007-06-14 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Foreign Affairs, and Ways and Means, 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 2007-06-14 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Foreign Affairs, and Ways and Means, 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 hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee 2007-06-14 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Foreign Affairs, and Ways and Means, 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 2007-06-14 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Foreign Affairs, and Ways and Means, 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 2007-06-14 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Foreign Affairs, and Ways and Means, 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 2007-06-14 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2007-06-14 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress K000188 Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3] RON KIND D WI 3 N F000444 Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6] JEFF FLAKE R AZ 6 2007-06-14 True C001038 Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7] JOSEPH CROWLEY D NY 7 2007-06-14 True R000578 Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8] David Reichert R WA G. 8 2007-06-14 True B001231 Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1] SHELLEY BERKLEY D NV 1 2007-06-14 True B000574 Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] EARL BLUMENAUER D OR 3 2007-06-14 True K000360 Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10] MARK KIRK R IL STEVEN 10 2007-06-14 True M000404 Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7] JIM MCDERMOTT D WA 7 2007-06-14 True P000265 Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6] TOM PETRI R WI 6 2007-06-14 True R000570 Rep. Ryan, Paul [R-WI-1] PAUL RYAN R WI 1 2007-06-14 True S001144 Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4] CHRISTOPHER SHAYS R CT 4 2007-06-14 True S000510 Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9] ADAM SMITH D WA 9 2007-06-14 True R000462 Rep. Rothman, Steven R. [D-NJ-9] STEVEN ROTHMAN D NJ R. 9 2007-06-15 False 2007-07-23 H001032 Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12] RUSH HOLT D NJ D. 12 2007-06-15 False D000191 Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4] PETER DEFAZIO D OR A. 4 2007-06-19 False M000933 Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8] JAMES MORAN D VA P. 8 2007-06-26 False R000170 Rep. Reyes, Silvestre [D-TX-16] SILVESTRE REYES D TX 16 2007-06-26 False 2007-06-28 W000784 Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4] ALBERT WYNN D MD R. 4 2007-06-26 False M001160 Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4] Gwen Moore D WI 4 2007-06-27 False F000043 Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2] CHAKA FATTAH D PA 2 2007-06-27 False J000126 Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30] EDDIE JOHNSON D TX BERNICE 30 2007-07-10 False J000032 Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18] SHEILA JACKSON-LEE D TX 18 2007-07-10 False W000792 Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9] ANTHONY WEINER D NY D. 9 2007-07-10 False Agriculture and Food Agribusiness Agricultural conservation Agricultural credit Agricultural labor Agricultural prices Agricultural subsidies Agricultural wastes Agriculture in foreign trade Air pollution control Alternative energy sources American Samoa Animals Armed Forces and National Security Authorization Biomass energy Block grants Broadband Budget deficits Child nutrition Climate change and greenhouse gases Commerce Crop insurance Day care Department of Agriculture Disasters Distance education Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Emergency Management Energy Energy efficiency Energy research Entrepreneurs Environmental Protection Families Farm lands Federal aid to research Federal budgets Finance and Financial Sector Fire fighters Food relief Food stamps Foreign Trade and International Finance Forest conservation Fruit Government Operations and Politics Government lending Government spending reductions Grants-in-aid Grassland ecology Habitat conservation Health Housing and Community Development Intergovernmental fiscal relations International Affairs Labor and Employment Law enforcement officers Marketing of farm produce Methane Military pay Milk Nongovernmental organizations Nutrition Paramedical personnel Police Public Lands and Natural Resources Puerto Rico Refuse as fuel Research and development Research grants Rural economic development School lunch program Science, Technology, Communications Small business Social Welfare Sugar Tariff Telemedicine Vegetables Water Resources Development Water pollution control Water quality Water supply Welfare eligibility Wetlands Wildlife conservation Agriculture and Food 00 2007-06-14 Introduced in House 2007-07-26T15:52:02Z Food and Agriculture Risk Management for the 21st Century Act of 2007 or FARM 21 Act of 2007 - Prohibits, after 2007, any direct, counter-cyclical or transition payment to an individual or entity whose adjusted gross income exceeds $200,000.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to offer to enter into a risk management account with a qualifying farm or ranch operator.

Extends direct payments and reduces payment amounts. Requires specified payment percentages, and 100% for FY2012, to be deposited into a risk management account. Links such payments to environmental stewardship.

Extends counter-cyclical payments.

Repeals: (1) the milk price support program; (2) specified commodity support programs; and (3) the sugar tariff quota.

Directs the Secretary to establish a recourse loan program for all commodities, including sugar, for which marketing loans were available.

Reduces the crop insurance administrative and operating reimbursement rate.

Extends: (1) the environmental quality incentives program; (2) the conservation innovation grants program; (3) the wetlands reserve program; (4) the grasslands reserve program; (5) the wildlife habitat incentives program; (6) the farm and ranchland protection program; and (7) the healthy forests reserve program.

Extends: (1) the fruit and vegetables in school program; (2) the farm to school program; and (3) the farmers market promotion program.

Directs the Secretary to assist eligible trade organizations increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables in the United States to meet federal health guidelines.

Extends the McGovern-Dole international food for education and child nutrition program.

Extends: (1) the biorefinery grant and loan program; (2) the renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements program; and (3) the biomass research and development program.

Sets forth specified rural development project eligibility criteria.

Extends: (1) the value-added producer grant program; (2) the rural broadband access program; (3) the rural business opportunity grant program; and (4) the farmworker training grant program.

Directs the Secretary to establish a rural entrepreneurship and microenterprise program to provide low- and moderate-income individuals with skills and technical and financial assistance to establish new small businesses in rural areas. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants and carry out a rural microloan program.

Directs the Secretary to use specified Commodity Credit Corporation funds for: (1) water or waste disposal grants or loans; (2) emergency community water assistance grants; (3) community facilities grants and loans that support projects that assist rural first responders; (4) broadband access loans; and (5) distance learning and telemedicine grants.

Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 with respect to: (1) combat pay and retirement account exclusions; (2) standard deduction increases; (3) child care deduction limits; (4) state cost-sharing during natural disasters; (5) minimum benefits; (6) program reauthorization; (7) program administration; (8) cash payment pilot projects; (9) block grants for Puerto Rico and American Samoa; (10) the commodity distribution program; (11) outreach grants; (12) the emergency food assistance program; and (13) community food projects.

Directs the Secretary to offer to enter into a contract or grant agreement with a primary nongovernmental organization to establish the National Food for the Hungry Transportation Fund to track, collect, and deliver time-sensitive food products.

]]> Food and Agriculture Risk Management for the 21st Century Act of 2007 Display Title Food and Agriculture Risk Management for the 21st Century Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to reform commodity programs and to increase nutrition, conservation, and energy programs of the Department of Agriculture, to reduce the national budget deficit, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced Food and Agriculture Risk Management for the 21st Century Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced FARM 21 Act of 2007 Introduced in House 2007-06-14T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110hr2720ih/xml/BILLS-110hr2720ih.xml 2007-09-11 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. 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.