[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4332 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4332

To provide for an automatic one-year extension of the authorizations of 
 appropriations and direct spending programs of the Farm Security and 
Rural Investment Act of 2002 and to provide for an additional one-year 
extension if implementing legislation is not submitted with respect to 
the Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization negotiations by 
               January 15, 2008, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 15, 2005

  Mr. Peterson of Minnesota (for himself, Mr. Costa, Mr. Salazar, Mr. 
  Holden, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Etheridge, Ms. Herseth, Mr. Baca, Mr. 
 Scott of Georgia, Mr. McIntyre, Mr. Davis of Tennessee, Mr. Pomeroy, 
 Mr. Melancon, Mr. Cuellar, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Barrow, and Mr. Boswell) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                              Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for an automatic one-year extension of the authorizations of 
 appropriations and direct spending programs of the Farm Security and 
Rural Investment Act of 2002 and to provide for an additional one-year 
extension if implementing legislation is not submitted with respect to 
the Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization negotiations by 
               January 15, 2008, 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. EXTENSION OF FARM SECURITY AND RURAL INVESTMENT ACT OF 2002.

    (a) Crop Programs.--
            (1) Automatic one-year extension.--Every reference in title 
        I of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Public 
        Law 107-171; 7 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.), or in an amendment made by 
        such title, to the 2007 crop year or the 2007 crop of a 
        commodity shall be deemed to also cover the 2008 crop year and 
        the 2008 crop of the same commodity. In the case of sections 
        1204(e)(1) and 1208(a) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 7934(e)(1), 
        7938(a)), the references to July 31, 2008, shall be deemed to 
        be July 31, 2009.
            (2) Conditional additional year extension.--If the 
        President does not submit to Congress implementing legislation 
        with respect to the Doha Development Round of World Trade 
        Organization negotiations by January 15, 2008--
                    (A) every reference in title I of the Farm Security 
                and Rural Investment Act of 2002, or in an amendment 
                made by such title, that is deemed to cover the 2008 
                crop year or the 2008 crop of a commodity, by operation 
                of paragraph (1), shall be deemed to instead cover the 
                2008 and 2009 crop years and the 2008 and 2009 crops of 
                the same commodity; and
                    (B) the references to July 31, 2008, in sections 
                1204(e)(1) and 1208(a) of such Act shall be deemed to 
                be July 31, 2010.
    (b) Other Direct Spending Programs and Authorities.--
            (1) Automatic one-year extension.--For purposes of every 
        direct spending program (as defined in section 250(c)(8) of the 
        Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 
        U.S.C. 900(c)(8))) or other authority established or amended by 
        the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Public Law 
        107-171), other than crop programs covered by subsection (a), 
        every reference to 2007 with regard to such programs or 
        authority shall be deemed to refer instead to 2008. The funding 
        level, acreage level, or tonnage level (as the case may be) 
        specified for such a program or authority in such Act, or in an 
        amendment made by such Act, for fiscal year 2007 shall also 
        apply for fiscal year 2008.
            (2) Conditional additional year extension.--If the 
        President does not submit to Congress implementing legislation 
        with respect to the Doha Development Round of World Trade 
        Organization negotiations by January 15, 2008--
                    (A) every reference in a direct spending program or 
                other authority established or amended by the Farm 
                Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 that is 
                deemed to be 2008 rather than 2007, by operation of 
                paragraph (1), shall be deemed to instead refer to 
                2009; and
                    (B) the funding level, acreage level, or tonnage 
                level (as the case may be) for fiscal year 2007 for 
                such a program or authority shall apply for both fiscal 
                years 2008 and 2009.
    (c) Extension of Authorizations of Appropriations and Program 
Terminations.--
            (1) Automatic one-year extension.--Every authorization of 
        appropriations contained in the Farm Security and Rural 
        Investment Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-171), or in an amendment 
        made by such Act, that would otherwise expire on September 30, 
        2007, shall be deemed to expire on September 30, 2008. Every 
        reference in such Act or in an amendment made by such Act to 
        the termination of a program or authority in 2007 shall be 
        deemed to refer instead to 2008.
            (2) Conditional additional year extension.--If the 
        President does not submit to Congress implementing legislation 
        with respect to the Doha Development Round of World Trade 
        Organization negotiations by January 15, 2008--
                    (A) every authorization of appropriations contained 
                in the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, 
                or in an amendment made by such Act, that is deemed to 
                expire on September 30, 2008, by operation of paragraph 
                (1), shall be deemed to expire on September 30, 2009; 
                and
                    (B) every reference to the termination of a program 
                or authority specified in such Act, or in an amendment 
                made by such Act, that is deemed to occur in 2008 
                rather than 2007, by operation of paragraph (1), shall 
                be deemed to occur instead in 2009.
    (d) Exception.--This section does not apply with respect to peanut 
storage costs under section 1307(a)(6) of the Farm Security and Rural 
Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 7957(a)(6)).
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