[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 428 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 428

    To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to ensure that 
producers of all classes of soft white wheat (including club wheat) are 
    permitted to repay marketing assistance loans, or receive loan 
          deficiency payments, for the wheat at the same rate.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 12, 1999

  Mr. Gorton 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 Market Transition Act to ensure that 
producers of all classes of soft white wheat (including club wheat) are 
    permitted to repay marketing assistance loans, or receive loan 
          deficiency payments, for the wheat at the same rate.

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

SECTION 1. REPAYMENT RATE FOR MARKETING ASSISTANCE LOANS FOR WHEAT; 
              LOAN PAYMENT RATE FOR LOAN DEFICIENCY PAYMENTS FOR WHEAT.

    (a) In General.--Section 134(a)(2) of the Agricultural Market 
Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7234(a)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) in the case of soft white wheat, be uniform 
                for all classes of the wheat, including club wheat.''.
    (b) Application.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply 
beginning with the 1997 crop of wheat.
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