EAT Healthy America Act
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 26, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Equitable Agriculture Today for a Healthy America Act or the EAT Healthy America Act - Amends provisions with respect to: (1) specialty crops; (2) the tree assistance program; (3) the conservation reserve program; (4) the wetlands reserve program; (5) the farmland protection program; (6) the grassland reserve program; (7) the wildlife habitat incentive program; (8) the environmental qualities incentives program; (9) air quality improvement; (10) integrated pest management initiative; (11) native plant habitat restoration; (12) agricultural trade; (13) invasive pests and diseases; (14) nutrition; (15) agricultural research; and (16) renewable energy, including crop biomass waste.
Cosponsors 73
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 26, 2006 to Dec 8, 2006, with 50 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-FL | Adam H. Putnam | Original | Sep 26, 2006 |
| D-FL | Allen Boyd | Original | Sep 26, 2006 |
| D-NY | Brian Higgins | Original | Sep 26, 2006 |
| R-WA | Cathy McMorris Rodgers | Original | Sep 26, 2006 |
| D-OR | Darlene Hooley | Original | Sep 26, 2006 |
| R-CA | Darrell Issa | Original | Sep 26, 2006 |
| D-OR | David Wu | Original | Sep 26, 2006 |
| D-CA | Dennis A. Cardoza | Original | Sep 26, 2006 |
| R-CA | Devin Nunes | Original | Sep 26, 2006 |
| R-WA | Doc Hastings | Original | Sep 26, 2006 |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Original | Sep 26, 2006 |
| D-HI | Ed Case | Original | Sep 26, 2006 |
| D-CA | Ellen O. Tauscher | Original | Sep 26, 2006 |
| R-CA | Elton Gallegly | Original | Sep 26, 2006 |
| R-CA | George Radanovich | Original | Sep 26, 2006 |
Actions 10
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 2, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
- Oct 27, 2006Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
- Oct 27, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research.
- Oct 27, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- Oct 27, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Agribusiness
- Agricultural conservation
- Agricultural education
- Agricultural extension work
- Agricultural pollution
- Agricultural research
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agricultural wastes
- Agriculture and Food
- Agriculture in foreign trade
- Air pollution control
- Alternative energy sources
- Animals
- Antitrust law
- Biomass energy
- Block grants
- Building construction
- California
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional oversight
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Conservation easements
- Construction costs
- Cost effectiveness
- Countervailing duties
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of the Interior
- Disaster relief
- Dumping
- Economic research
- Economics and Public Finance
- Ecosystem management
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emergency Management
- Endangered species
- Energy
- Energy crops
- Energy facilities
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Executive reorganization
- Exports
- Farm lands
- Federal aid to air pollution control
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to research
- Federal aid to transportation
- Federal employees
- Federal installations
- Food safety
- Food stamps
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Foreign trade promotion
- Fruit
- Government Operations and Politics
- Governmental investigations
- Grants-in-aid
- Grassland ecology
- Habitat conservation
- Hawaii
- Higher education
- Horticulture
- Imports
- Infrastructure
- Integrated pest management
- Intellectual property
- Intermodal transportation
- International competitiveness
- Law
- Marketing of farm produce
- Non-native species
- Nutrition
- Nuts
- Patents
- Pest control
- Pesticide regulation
- Pesticides
- Pests
- Plant breeding
- Plants
- Policy sciences
- Produce trade
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Refuse as fuel
- Research centers
- Research grants
- Restoration ecology
- Revegetation
- Scholarships
- School lunch program
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Soil conservation
- Solar energy
- Student loan funds
- Technological innovations
- Technology transfer
- Terrorism
- Trade negotiations
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation engineering
- Trees
- Vegetables
- Water Resources Development
- Wetlands
- Wildlife conservation
- Wind power
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 26, 2006Introduced in House
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