Rural Community Revitalization and Transition Act
Latest action · Sep 25, 2002 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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.
- IntroducedSep 25, 2002
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Expresses the sense of Congress that such payments should be afforded capital gains treatment.
Sets forth payment determination provisions for tobacco investment protection payments, including: (1) historic quota production for Flue-cured and Burley tobacco, and for Fire-cured, dark air-cured, and Virginia sun-cured tobacco; (2) counter-cyclical payments for Flue-cured tobacco, and for Burley, dark-air cured, Virginia sun-cured, and Fire-cured tobacco; and (3) direct payments for Flue-cured tobacco, and Burley and other tobacco.
Authorizes the establishment of the Center for Agricultural Innovation which shall be located at a land-grant college or university in a traditional quota State, and shall: (1) coordinate work among land-grant colleges and universities in the Southeast to facilitate development, evaluation, and implementation of new agricultural technologies and enterprises for rural communities; and (2) give priority to developing technologies and enterprises in tobacco-dependent communities.
Establishes in the Department of Agriculture the Tobacco Advisory Board. Terminates marketing quotas for certain types of tobacco. Repeals provisions regarding: (1) Burley tobacco acreage allotment; (2) mandatory sale of Burley and Flue-cured tobacco acreage allotments and marketing quotas; (3) sale or lease of acreage allotments; and (4) farm poundage quotas for certain types of tobacco.
Revises provisions regarding: (1) national marketing quota; (2) apportionment of national marketing quota; (3) lease and transfer of acreage allotments; and (4) acreage-poundage quotas.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Nov 19, 2002.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-SC | Strom Thurmond | Nov 19, 2002 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 25, 2002Introduced in Senate
- Sep 25, 2002Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 5480 | Rural Community Revitalization and Transition Act | Identical bill | Oct 4, 2002 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Accounting
- Acreage allotments
- Administrative fees
- Advice and consent of the Senate
- Agribusiness
- Agricultural colleges
- Agricultural credit
- Agricultural industries
- Agricultural innovations
- Agricultural price supports
- Agricultural research
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Agriculture in foreign trade
- Auditing
- Business income tax
- Business records
- Capital gains tax
- Cigarettes
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Corporations
- Department of Agriculture
- Diversification in industry
- Economic surveys
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Executive reorganization
- Farm ownership
- Farm production quotas
- Farms
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to higher education
- Federal aid to research
- Fees
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Financial statements
- Fines (Penalties)
- Government and business
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Law
- Leases
- Marketing
- Marketing of farm produce
- Nonprofit organizations
- Presidential appointments
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Rebates
- Revolving funds
- Rural economic development
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- Smokeless tobacco
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- Storage
- Taxation
- Technological innovations
- Tobacco
- Tobacco industry
- Tobacco tax
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.
