[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2523 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2523

  To terminate the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
   Commodity Credit Corporation to support the price of agricultural 
 commodities and to terminate related acreage allotment and marketing 
                  quota programs for such commodities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 24, 1995

  Mr. Chabot (for himself, Mr. Owens, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Crane, Mr. 
Scarborough, Mr. Shadegg, and Mr. Hoke) introduced the following bill; 
           which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To terminate the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
   Commodity Credit Corporation to support the price of agricultural 
 commodities and to terminate related acreage allotment and marketing 
                  quota programs for such commodities.

    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 ``Fairness in Agriculture Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF PRICE SUPPORT, ACREAGE ALLOTMENT, AND MARKETING QUOTA 
              AUTHORITIES OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

    (a) Price Support Under Agricultural Act of 1949.--The Agricultural 
Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.) is repealed.
    (b) Price Support Authority of Commodity Credit Corporation.--
Section 5 of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 
714c) is amended by striking subsection (a).
    (c) Prohibition on Future Provision of Price Support.--For any 
agricultural commodity for crop years beginning after the effective 
date of this section, the Secretary of Agriculture may not make price 
support available, whether in the form of loans, payments, purchases, 
or other operations, by using the funds of the Commodity Credit 
Corporation, unless the provision of price support for a particular 
commodity is specifically authorized in a law enacted after the date of 
the enactment of this Act.
    (d) Repeal of Acreage Allotments and Marketing Quotas.--Title III 
of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1301 et seq.) is 
repealed.
    (e) Liability of Producers.--The amendments made by this section 
shall not affect the liability of any person under any provision of law 
as in effect before the effective date of this section.
    (f) Effective Date.--This section and the amendments made by this 
section shall take effect one year after the date of the enactment of 
this Act.
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