Sugar Program Reform Act

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Bill Number

HR 2081

Introduced

Jun 6, 2001

Latest Action

Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.

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Topics

Acreage allotments Agricultural credit Agricultural price supports Agricultural prices Agricultural subsidies Agriculture and Food Agriculture in foreign trade Commerce Economics and Public Finance Farm production quotas Finance and Financial Sector Foreign Trade and International Finance Government lending Marketing of farm produce Sugar Sugar trade

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Summary

Sugar Program Reform Act - Amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act with respect to the sugar program to: (1) reduce sugarcane loan rates through crop year 2004; (2) revise the sugar beet loan rate; (3) eliminate nonrecourse loans; and (4) eliminate sugar price supports after crop year 2002.

Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal sugar and crystalline fructose marketing quota and allotment provisions.

Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the President, beginning after the 2000-2001 quota year, to use all available authority to ensure that U.S. market raw sugar shall be available at not more than the higher of the world sugar price or the U.S. loan rate.

Actions

Jun 13, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.
Jun 6, 2001

Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Jun 6, 2001

Introduced in House

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