[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1983 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1983

 To amend the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to increase the amount of 
        funds available for certain agricultural trade programs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 19, 1999

 Mrs. Murray (for herself, Mr. Craig, Mr. Smith of Oregon, Mrs. Boxer, 
and Mrs. Feinstein) 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 amend the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to increase the amount of 
        funds available for certain agricultural trade programs.

    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 ``Agricultural Market Access and 
Development Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. MARKET ACCESS PROGRAM.

    Section 211(c)(1) of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 
5641(c)(1)) is amended by striking ``and not more than $90,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 1996 through 2002,'' and inserting ``not more than 
$90,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1996 through 1999, and not less 
than $90,000,000 nor more than $200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2000 through 2002,''.

SEC. 3. USE OF EXPORT ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM FUNDS FOR MARKET ACCESS OR 
              DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS.

    Section 301(e) of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 
5651) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Use of export enhancement program funds for market 
        access or development programs.--
                    ``(A) Less than 20 percent use.--If on July 1 of a 
                fiscal year less than 20 percent of the maximum amount 
                of funds authorized to carry out the program 
                established under this section have been expended 
                during that fiscal year to carry out the program 
                established under this section, the Commodity Credit 
                Corporation may use not more than 50 percent of the 
                unexpended amount to carry out market access and 
                development programs of the Commodity Credit 
                Corporation during that fiscal year.
                    ``(B) Less than 50 percent use.--If on July 1 of a 
                fiscal year less than 50 percent, but more than 20 
                percent, of the maximum amount of funds authorized to 
                carry out the program established under this section 
                have been expended during that fiscal year to carry out 
                the program established under this section, the 
                Commodity Credit Corporation may use not more than 20 
                percent of the unexpended amount to carry out market 
                access and development programs of the Commodity Credit 
                Corporation during that fiscal year.''.

SEC. 4. FOREIGN MARKET DEVELOPMENT COOPERATOR PROGRAM.

    Section 703 of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5723) 
is amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 703. FUNDING.

    ``The Secretary shall use to carry out this title for each of 
fiscal years 2000 through 2002 not less than $35,000,000 of the funds 
of the Commodity Credit Corporation.''.
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