[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1372 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1372

 To eliminate the price support and production adjustment programs for 
                    tobacco, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               August 5 (legislative day, June 30), 1993

  Mr. Wofford introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
 To eliminate the price support and production adjustment programs for 
                    tobacco, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Tobacco Price Support Elimination 
Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF TOBACCO PRICE SUPPORT AND PRODUCTION ADJUSTMENT 
              PROGRAMS.

    (a) Price Support Program.--
            (1) Parity price support.--Section 101 of the Agricultural 
        Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1441) is amended--
                    (A) in the first sentence of subsection (a), by 
                striking ``tobacco (except as otherwise provided 
                herein), corn,'' and inserting ``corn'';
                    (B) by striking subsections (c), (g), (h), and (i);
                    (C) in subsection (d)(3)--
                            (i) by striking ``, except tobacco,''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``and no price support 
                        shall be made available for any crop of tobacco 
                        for which marketing quotas have been 
                        disapproved by producers;''; and
                    (D) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection 
                (c).
            (2) No net cost provisions.--Sections 106, 106A, and 106B 
        of such Act (7 U.S.C. 1445, 1445-1, and 1445-2) are repealed.
            (3) Definition of basic agricultural commodity.--Section 
        408(c) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 1428(c)) is amended by striking 
        ``tobacco,''.
            (4) Review of burley tobacco imports.--Section 3 of Public 
        Law 98-59 (7 U.S.C. 625) is repealed.
            (5) Powers of commodity credit corporation.--Section 5(a) 
        of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 
        714c(a)) is amended by inserting after ``agricultural 
        commodities'' the following: ``(other than tobacco)''.
    (b) Acreage Allotments and Marketing Quotas.--
            (1) Declaration of policy.--Section 2 of the Agricultural 
        Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1282) is amended by striking 
        ``tobacco,''.
            (2) Definitions.--Section 301(b) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 
        1301(b)) is amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) by striking subparagraph (C); and
                            (ii) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as 
                        subparagraph (C);
                    (B) in paragraph (6)(A), by striking ``tobacco,'';
                    (C) in paragraph (7), by striking the following:
                    ``Tobacco (flue-cured), July 1-June 30;
                    ``Tobacco (other than flue-cured), October 1-
                September 30;'';
                    (D) in paragraph (10)--
                            (i) by striking subparagraph (B); and
                            (ii) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as 
                        subparagraph (B);
                    (E) in paragraph (11)(B), by striking ``and 
                tobacco'';
                    (F) in paragraph (12), by striking ``tobacco,'';
                    (G) in paragraph (14)--
                            (i) by striking ``(A)''; and
                            (ii) by striking subparagraphs (B), (C), 
                        and (D);
                    (H) by striking paragraph (15);
                    (I) in paragraph (16)--
                            (i) by striking subparagraph (B); and
                            (ii) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as 
                        subparagraph (B); and
                    (J) by redesignating paragraphs (16) and (17) as 
                paragraphs (15) and (16), respectively.
            (3) Parity payments.--Section 303 of such Act (7 U.S.C. 
        1303) is amended by striking ``rice, or tobacco,'' and 
        inserting ``or rice,''.
            (4) Marketing quotas.--Part I of subtitle B of title III of 
        such Act (7 U.S.C. 1311 et seq.) is repealed.
            (5) Administrative provisions.--Section 361 of such Act (7 
        U.S.C. 1361) is amended by striking ``tobacco,''.
            (6) Adjustment of quotas.--Section 371 of such Act (7 
        U.S.C. 1371) is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a), by striking ``peanuts, or 
                tobacco'' and inserting ``or peanuts''; and
                    (B) in subsection (b), by striking ``peanuts or 
                tobacco'' and inserting ``or peanuts''.
            (7) Reports and records.--Section 373 of such Act (7 U.S.C. 
        1373) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``peanuts, or tobacco'' each place 
                it appears in subsections (a) and (b) and inserting 
                ``or peanuts''; and
                    (B) in subsection (a)--
                            (i) in the first sentence, by striking 
                        ``all persons engaged in the business of 
                        redrying, prizing, or stemming tobacco for 
                        producers,''; and
                            (ii) in the last sentence, by striking 
                        ``$500;'' and all that follows through the 
                        period at the end of the sentence and inserting 
                        ``$500.''.
            (8) Regulations.--Section 375(a) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 
        1375(a)) is amended by striking ``peanuts, or tobacco'' and 
        inserting ``or peanuts''.
            (9) Eminent domain.--Section 378 of such Act (7 U.S.C. 
        1378) is amended--
                    (A) in the first sentence of subsection (c), by 
                striking ``cotton, tobacco, and peanuts'' and inserting 
                ``cotton and peanuts''; and
                    (B) by striking subsections (d), (e), and (f).
            (10) Burley tobacco farm reconstitution.--Section 379 of 
        such Act (7 U.S.C. 1379) is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a)--
                            (i) by striking ``(a)''; and
                            (ii) in paragraph (6), by striking ``, but 
                        this clause (6) shall not be applicable in the 
                        case of burley tobacco''; and
                    (B) by striking subsections (b) and (c).
            (11) Acreage-poundage quotas.--Section 4 of the Act 
        entitled ``An Act to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 
        1938, as amended, to provide for acreage-poundage marketing 
        quotas for tobacco, to amend the tobacco price support 
        provisions of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, and for 
        other purposes'', approved April 16, 1965 (7 U.S.C. 1314c 
        note), is repealed.
            (12) Burley tobacco acreage allotments.--The Act entitled 
        ``An Act relating to burley tobacco farm acreage allotments 
        under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended'', 
        approved July 12, 1952 (7 U.S.C. 1315), is repealed.
            (13) Transfer of allotments.--Section 703 of the Food and 
        Agriculture Act of 1965 (7 U.S.C. 1316) is repealed.
            (14) Advance recourse loans.--Section 13(a)(2)(B) of the 
        Food Security Improvements Act of 1986 (7 U.S.C. 1433c-
        1(a)(2)(B)) is amended by striking ``tobacco and''.
            (15) Tobacco field measurement.--Section 1112 of the 
        Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (Public Law 100-203) 
        is amended by striking subsection (c).

SEC. 3. TRANSITION PROVISIONS.

    (a) Liability.--The amendments made by this Act shall not affect 
the liability of any person under any provision of law as in effect 
before the application of the amendments in accordance with section 4.
    (b) Tobacco Stocks and Loans.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall 
issue regulations that require--
            (1) the orderly disposition of tobacco stocks; and
            (2) the repayment of all tobacco price support loans 
        outstanding on the date of enactment of this Act by not later 
        than 1 year after the effective date of this Act.
    (c) Administrative Cost Savings.--The Secretary of Agriculture 
shall transfer to the Secretary of the Treasury, for deposit into the 
general fund of the Treasury, an amount equal to the administrative 
cost savings that result from the enactment of this Act and the 
amendments made by this Act.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall apply beginning 
with the marketing year that begins after the date of enactment of this 
Act.

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