Specialty Crop and Value-Added Agriculture Promotion Act
Latest action · Jul 29, 2005 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9474-9475)
Progress
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- IntroducedJul 29, 2005
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Specialty Crop and Value-Added Agriculture Promotion Act - Amends the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 to include within the definition of specialty crop: (1) farm-raised or wild-harvested fish and shellfish; and (2) organically produced specialty crops.
Makes the authorization of appropriations for state specialty crop block grants permanent.
Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to replace the agricultural marketing resource center pilot project with a state block grant program for value-added agricultural product market development.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an incentive program for third-party certification of agricultural producers and processors for quality and production practices that increase agricultural commodity marketability or value. Provides for up 50% reimbursement of participant certification costs.
Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to direct the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out the adjusted gross revenue insurance pilot program as a permanent program. Authorizes the Corporation to: (1) expand the program to cover any county in which crops are produced; and (2) grant temporary policy subsidies for producers located in a county that has a high level of specialty crop production and has not had a high level of crop insurance coverage coverage.
Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to direct the Secretary to: (1) make available to students in not more than 100 schools in each state, and in elementary and secondary schools on one Indian reservation, free fresh and dried fruits and vegetables throughout the school day in one or more school-designated areas; and (2) give priority to states that produce large quantities of specialty crops.
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase operating loan limits for loans guaranteed other than by the Secretary. Revises the related inflation percentage determination.
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to establish the position of Assistant United States Trade Representative for Specialty Crops.
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to increase the authorization of appropriations for specialty crop technical assistance.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee | Referred Jul 29, 2005 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 29, 2005Introduced in Senate
- Jul 29, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9473-9474)
- Jul 29, 2005Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9474-9475)
In the Congressional Record 1
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Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| RL33037 | Previewing a 2007 Farm Bill Archived | Report | Jan 3, 2007 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 3562 | Specialty Crop and Value-Added Agriculture Promotion Act | Related bill | Oct 12, 2005 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 to increase the authorization of appropriations for grants to support the competitiveness of specialty crops, to amend the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to improve the program of value-added agricultural product market development grants by routing funds through State departments of agriculture, to amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to require a nationwide expansion of the adjusted gross revenue insurance program, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Specialty Crop and Value-Added Agriculture Promotion Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Administrative procedure
- Agribusiness
- Agricultural cooperatives
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Agriculture in foreign trade
- Aquaculture
- Authorization
- Block grants
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crop insurance
- Department of Agriculture
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Executive reorganization
- Exports
- Farm produce
- Farmers
- Federal officials
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fisheries
- Fishery products
- Flowers
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Fruit
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Grants-in-aid
- Horticulture
- Insurance premiums
- International Affairs
- Law
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marketing of farm produce
- Nontariff trade barriers
- Nuts
- Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
- Organic farming
- Produce trade
- Quality control
- Quality of products
- School lunch program
- Shellfish
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- Tariff
- Trade agreements
- Vegetables
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 29, 2005Introduced in Senate
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