Tobacco Equity Elimination Act of 2002
Latest action · Jul 12, 2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.
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.
- IntroducedJun 27, 2002
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 with respect to tobacco price supports to: (1) revise such provisions to reflect annual production costs for each type of tobacco; (2) eliminate references to quota tobacco in no net cost provisions; and (3) eliminate tobacco from the definition of "basic agricultural commodity."
Directs the Secretary and cigarette and other tobacco-product manufacturers, respectively, to estimate annual export and domestic quantity and industry purchase requirements. Directs the Secretary to issue to each historic tobacco producer a tobacco production license in order to harmonize annual purchase intentions and production.
Repeals the Tobacco Control Act and specified related provisions ( thus terminating marketing quota program provisions).
Authorizes the establishment of a nonprofit Center for Tobacco-Dependent Communities which shall provide economic and community development assistance to tobacco communities in transition to non-tobacco economies.
Cosponsors 16
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 27, 2002 to Sep 19, 2002; 7 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-KY | Ed Whitfield | Original | Jun 27, 2002 |
| R-KY | Harold Rogers | Original | Jun 27, 2002 |
| D-KY | Ken Lucas | Original | Jun 27, 2002 |
| R-NC | Robin Hayes | Original | Jun 27, 2002 |
| R-KY | Ron Lewis | Original | Jun 27, 2002 |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | Original | Jun 27, 2002 |
| R-TN | Van Hilleary | Original | Jun 27, 2002 |
| D-NC | Bob Etheridge | Jul 9, 2002 | |
| D-VA | Rick Boucher | Jul 16, 2002 | |
| D-TN | Bart Gordon | Jul 22, 2002 | |
| R-TN | Ed Bryant | Jul 22, 2002 | |
| D-TN | Bob Clement | Jul 26, 2002 | |
| D-NC | David E. Price | Jul 26, 2002 | |
| R-TN | Zach Wamp | Jul 26, 2002 | |
| D-MO | Karen McCarthy | Sep 4, 2002 | |
| D-TN | John S. Tanner | Sep 19, 2002 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Jun 27, 2002 |
| Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee | Referred Jul 12, 2002 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 12, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.
- Jun 27, 2002Introduced in House
- Jun 27, 2002Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To replace the existing Federal price support and quota programs for tobacco with price support and quota programs designed to assist the actual producers of tobacco, to compensate quota holders for the loss of tobacco quota asset value, to provide assistance for active tobacco producers, including those producers who forgo obtaining a tobacco production license, during the transition of the new programs, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Tobacco Equity Elimination Act of 2002
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Accounting
- Advice and consent of the Senate
- Agricultural estimating and reporting
- Agricultural price supports
- Agricultural production
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Agriculture in foreign trade
- Auditing
- Business records
- Cigarettes
- Commerce
- Compensation (Law)
- Conferences
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Department of Agriculture
- Diversification in industry
- Economics and Public Finance
- Executive reorganization
- Farm production quotas
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to community development
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Financial statements
- Fines (Penalties)
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Housing and Community Development
- Imports
- Law
- Licenses
- Marketing of farm produce
- Nonprofit organizations
- Presidential appointments
- Rural economic development
- Smokeless tobacco
- Social Welfare
- Tobacco
- Tobacco exports
- Tobacco industry
- User charges
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 27, 2002Introduced in House
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