Local Food and Farm Support Act
Latest action · Jul 17, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
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.
- IntroducedMay 17, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Local Food and Farm Support Act - Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a grant program to support value-added agricultural products which shall include a socially disadvantaged farmer and rancher component and may include a small and individual producer grant component.
Directs the Secretary to establish a Family Rancher and Rancher Viability and Innovation Fund.
Amends the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 to direct the Secretary, through the Agricultural Marketing Service, to: (1) establish a grant program for eligible entities to conduct enterprise feasibility studies, including studies of consumer preference; and (2) provide loans and loan guarantees to eligible entities and individual producers to develop processing, distribution, and information infrastructure for locally or regionally produced food.
Amends the Farmers-to-Consumers Direct Marketing Act of 1976 to direct the Secretary to carry out a direct to consumer marketing assistance program to make grants to eligible entities for projects to establish, expand, and promote farmers' markets and other farmer to consumer direct marketing opportunities.
Extends: (1) the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) farmers' market nutrition program; (2) the senior farmers' market nutrition program; (3) the food stamp community food project program; and (4) the farm-to cafeteria program.
Establishes: (1) the food stamp fruit and vegetable incentive program; and (2) the urban agriculture production program.
Cosponsors 20
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 17, 2007 to Oct 4, 2007; 7 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Original | May 17, 2007 |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Original | May 17, 2007 |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Original | May 17, 2007 |
| D-NY | Kirsten E. Gillibrand | Original | May 17, 2007 |
| D-KS | Nancy E. Boyda | Original | May 17, 2007 |
| D-WI | Steve Kagen | Original | May 17, 2007 |
| D-ME | Thomas H. Allen | Original | May 17, 2007 |
| D-NY | Michael R. McNulty | May 21, 2007 | |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | May 23, 2007 | |
| D-NJ | Rush Holt | May 23, 2007 | |
| D-AL | Artur Davis | Jun 5, 2007 | |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | Jun 5, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Lynn C. Woolsey | Jun 5, 2007 | |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Jun 18, 2007 | |
| D-MN | Keith Ellison | Jun 26, 2007 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred May 17, 2007 |
| Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee | Referred Jun 26, 2007 | |
| General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit Subcommittee | Referred Jun 26, 2007 | |
| Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee | Referred Jun 26, 2007 | |
| Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee | Referred Jun 26, 2007 | |
| Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee | Referred Jun 26, 2007 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred May 17, 2007 |
| Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee | Referred Jul 17, 2007 |
Actions 11
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 17, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
- Jun 26, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- Jun 26, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
- Jun 26, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
- Jun 26, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H5535 | Earl Blumenauer D-OR | May 22, 2007 |
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E1078 | Earl Blumenauer D-OR | May 17, 2007 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RL33829 | Domestic Food Assistance and the 2008 Farm Bill Archived | Report | Aug 22, 2008 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To promote expanded economic opportunities for farmers and ranchers through local and regional markets, expand access to healthy food in underserved communities, provide access to locally and regionally grown food for schools, institutions, and consumers, and strengthen rural-urban linkages, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Local Food and Farm Support Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Agribusiness
- Agricultural credit
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Commerce
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Families
- Family farms
- Farmers
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Food stamps
- Fruit
- Gardening
- Government lending
- Housing and Community Development
- Marketing of farm produce
- Minorities
- Minority business enterprises
- Produce trade
- Rural economic development
- School lunch program
- Small business
- Social Welfare
- Urban affairs
- Urban areas
- Vegetables
- WIC program
- Women
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 17, 2007Introduced in House
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; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
