Healthy Farms, Foods, and Fuels Act of 2006
Latest action · Nov 2, 2006 Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
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 13, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Healthy Farms, Foods, and Fuels Act of 2006 - Extends: (1) the conservation reserve program; (2) the wetlands reserve program; (3) the conservation security program; (4) the grassland reserve program; (5) the environmental quality incentives program; (6) the wildlife habitat incentive program; (7) the agricultural management assistance program; and (8) the organic agriculture research and extension initiative.
Establishes: (1) the cooperative conservation partnership initiative; (2) the suburban and community forestry and open space program; (3) an integrated pest management initiative; and (4) a conservation initiative for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers.
Revises: (1) the farmland protection program; (2) funding for the healthy forests reserve program; and (3) the national organic certification and transition cost share program.
Makes permanent funding available for: (1) the education grant program for Hispanic-serving institutions; and (2) the fresh fruit and vegetable program.
Revises and extends the biorefinery development program.
Extends: (1) the energy audit and renewable energy development program; (2) the renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements program; (3) the Department of Agriculture bioenergy program; (4) biomass research and development; and (5) carbon cycle research.
Extends: (1) the community food project grant program; (2) the farm-to-cafeteria program; (3) WIC farmers' market nutrition program; (4) the senior farmers' market nutrition program; and (5) farmers' market promotion program.
Cosponsors 44
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 13, 2006 to Dec 8, 2006, with 28 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Original | Sep 13, 2006 |
| D-KY | Ben Chandler | Original | Sep 13, 2006 |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Original | Sep 13, 2006 |
| R-NH | Charles F. Bass | Original | Sep 13, 2006 |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Original | Sep 13, 2006 |
| D-HI | Ed Case | Original | Sep 13, 2006 |
| D-CA | Ellen O. Tauscher | Original | Sep 13, 2006 |
| R-NJ | Frank A. LoBiondo | Original | Sep 13, 2006 |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Original | Sep 13, 2006 |
| D-MN | James L. Oberstar | Original | Sep 13, 2006 |
| R-NY | James T. Walsh | Original | Sep 13, 2006 |
| R-NH | Jeb Bradley | Original | Sep 13, 2006 |
| R-PA | Jim Gerlach | Original | Sep 13, 2006 |
| R-AZ | Jim Kolbe | Original | Sep 13, 2006 |
| R-NJ | Jim Saxton | Original | Sep 13, 2006 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 2, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
- Sep 28, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research.
- Sep 28, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- Sep 13, 2006Introduced in House
- Sep 13, 2006Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Agricultural conservation
- Agricultural credit
- Agricultural extension work
- Agricultural research
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agricultural wastes
- Agriculture and Food
- Air pollution control
- Alcohol as fuel
- Alternative energy sources
- Animals
- Authorization
- Biomass energy
- Birds
- Carbon cycle
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Conservation easements
- Cost effectiveness
- Crop insurance
- Department of Agriculture
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Endangered species
- Energy
- Energy conservation
- Energy crops
- Energy efficiency
- Energy research
- Environmental Protection
- Families
- Farm lands
- Farmers
- Federal aid to education
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Feedstock
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fishes
- Food relief
- Food stamps
- Forest conservation
- Forest ecology
- Forest management
- Forest products
- Fruit
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Grants-in-aid
- Grassland ecology
- Grazing
- Habitat conservation
- Higher education
- Hispanic Americans
- Integrated pest management
- Land transfers
- Landowners
- Landscape protection
- Law
- Leases
- Licenses
- Marketing of farm produce
- Migratory bird conservation
- Minorities
- Minority education
- Native Americans
- Non-native species
- Nonprofit organizations
- Nutrition
- Open space lands
- Organic farming
- Outdoor recreation
- Performance measurement
- Pest control
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Refuse as fuel
- Research and development
- Restoration ecology
- Right of property
- Riparian ecology
- School lunch program
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Soil conservation
- Soil erosion
- Sports and Recreation
- Suburbs
- Technology transfer
- Trees
- Urban affairs
- Urban forestry
- Vegetables
- Water conservation
- Water pollution control
- Water quality
- Water Resources Development
- Watersheds
- Wetlands
- WIC program
- Wildlife conservation
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 13, 2006Introduced in House
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