To codify and extend the current Department of Agriculture program to promote the use of agricultural commodities by bioenergy producers, particularly small-scale producers, to produce ethanol and biodiesel fuels.
Latest action · Apr 22, 2002 Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedApr 15, 2002
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 22, 2002Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
- Apr 22, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
- Apr 22, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- Apr 15, 2002Introduced in House
- Apr 15, 2002Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Alcohol as fuel
- Alternative fuels
- Barley
- Business records
- Commerce
- Corn
- Economics and Public Finance
- Energy
- Energy industries
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Grain
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Rice
- Seeds
- Sorghum
- Soybeans
- Subsidies
- Trees
- Wheat
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