United States Specialty Crop Export Opportunities Act of 2007
Latest action · May 4, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
Progress
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- IntroducedMar 27, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
United States Specialty Crop Export Opportunities Act of 2007 - Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to regulate plants, plant products, biological control organisms, and noxious weeds for export purposes.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) coordinate fruit and vegetable market analyses with the private sector and the Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service; and (2) make publicly available on an Internet website the status of all export petitions and an explanation of the sanitary or phytosanitary issues associated with each pending export petition, and information on the import requirements of foreign countries for fruits and vegetables.
Amends the Homeland Security Act to repeal the transfer of agricultural import and entry inspection functions from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service the international agricultural inspection program to carry out import and entry agricultural inspections; (2) a federal-state agricultural inspection communications system; (3) the International Trade Inspection Advisory Committee; and (4) a special export credit guarantee program.
Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to extend: (1) the promotion of agricultural exports to emerging markets program; and (2) the E. (Kika) de la Garza Agricultural Fellowship program.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Mar 27, 2007.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Mike Thompson | Original | Mar 27, 2007 |
Actions 8
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 4, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- May 4, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
- May 4, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
- Apr 13, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
- Apr 10, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
- Mar 28, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E654-655)
- Mar 27, 2007Introduced in House
- Mar 27, 2007Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Homeland Security, 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 education
- Agriculture and Food
- Agriculture in foreign trade
- Commerce
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Homeland Security
- Developing countries
- Education
- Executive reorganization
- Export controls
- Export finance
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to education
- Federal employees
- Federal-state relations
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Food safety
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Fruit
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Higher education
- Hispanic Americans
- Import restrictions
- International Affairs
- Marketing of farm produce
- Minorities
- Minority education
- Pest control
- Plants
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Recruiting of employees
- Scholarships
- Subsidies
- Trade negotiations
- Vegetables
- Weeds
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 27, 2007Introduced in House
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