Specialty Crops Competition Act of 2007
Latest action · Apr 19, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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.
- IntroducedApr 19, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Specialty Crops Competition Act of 2007 - Defines "specialty crop" as fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, nursery crops, floriculture, and horticulture.
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to provide for marketing order specialty crop food safety programs.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) carry out fruit and vegetable market news activities; (2) make grants to states to enhance specialty crop competitiveness; (3) prepare a foreign market access strategy plan; (4) establish in the Department of Agriculture an office for the protection of intellectual property rights in plants and plant-derived materials; (5) make grants for market analysis of antidumping and countervailing duty cases; (6) establish a program of specialty crop research and grants; (7) establish an invasive pest threat identification and mitigation program; (8) establish the national clean plant network to provide diagnostic and pathogen elimination services; (9) establish the nutrition education program review committee; (10) carry out an integrated pest management initiative; and (11) carry out a specialty crop census every five years.
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to obligate funds for specialty crop operating loans.
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to: (1) increase and extend specialty crop technical assistance; (2) make nursery tree growers eligible for tree program assistance; (3) provide for increased fruit, vegetable, and specialty crop purchases; and (4) remove the income limitation from the environmental quality incentives program.
Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to increase and extend funding for value-added agricultural market development grants.
Revises specified plant patent provisions.
Amends the Plant Protection Act to revise compensation provisions.
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to restore import and entry agricultural inspection functions to the Department of Agriculture. Establishes the international agricultural inspection program within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).
Amends the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 to direct the Secretary to provide emergency assistance to specialty crop producers who suffer qualifying losses in disaster-designated counties.
Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to expand the fresh fruit and vegetable program.
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to include food stamp nutrition education (as defined by this Act) within the scope of the food stamp program. Establishes a food stamp fruit and vegetable electronic benefit transfer pilot program.
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make transportation infrastructure grants to eligible state and local governments, shippers, and specialty crop producers; and (2) carry out food safety initiatives.
Establishes in the Department an Office of Pest Management Policy.
Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to provide loans and grants for housing farm laborers admitted for temporary residence (H-2A visas).
Cosponsors 24
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 19, 2007 to Oct 26, 2007, with 16 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Barbara Boxer | Original | Apr 19, 2007 |
| D-MI | Carl Levin | Original | Apr 19, 2007 |
| D-CA | Dianne Feinstein | Original | Apr 19, 2007 |
| R-OR | Gordon H. Smith | Original | Apr 19, 2007 |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Original | Apr 19, 2007 |
| R-GA | Johnny Isakson | Original | Apr 19, 2007 |
| R-ID | Larry E. Craig | Original | Apr 19, 2007 |
| D-WA | Maria Cantwell | Original | Apr 19, 2007 |
| R-ID | Mike Crapo | Original | Apr 19, 2007 |
| R-ME | Olympia J. Snowe | Original | Apr 19, 2007 |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Original | Apr 19, 2007 |
| R-NC | Richard Burr | Original | Apr 19, 2007 |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Original | Apr 19, 2007 |
| D-PA | Robert P. Casey Jr. | Original | Apr 19, 2007 |
| D-OR | Ron Wyden | Original | Apr 19, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 19, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Apr 19, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
- Apr 19, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4754)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Agricultural credit
- Agricultural labor
- Agricultural research
- Agriculture and Food
- Agriculture in foreign trade
- Alien labor
- Census
- Child nutrition
- Commerce
- Countervailing duties
- Department of Agriculture
- Disaster relief
- Dumping
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electronic benefits transfers
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emergency Management
- Environmental Protection
- Executive reorganization
- Families
- Federal aid to housing
- Federal aid to transportation
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Flowers
- Food safety
- Food stamps
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Foreign trade promotion
- Fruit
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Grants-in-aid
- Horticulture
- Housing and Community Development
- Immigration
- Integrated pest management
- Intellectual property
- Labor and Employment
- Marketing of farm produce
- Nutrition
- Nuts
- Patents
- Plant breeding
- Plant protection
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Rural housing
- School lunch program
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Temporary employment
- Transportation and Public Works
- Trees
- Vegetables
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 19, 2007Introduced in Senate
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