Farm, Nutrition, and Community Investment Act of 2007
Latest action · May 17, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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 SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Farm, Nutrition, and Community Investment Act of 2007 - Extends and revises various agricultural programs, including programs respecting: (1) milk and dairy; (2) conservation security; (3) conservation reserve; (4) wetlands reserve; (5) environmental quality incentives; (6) farmland protection; (7) cooperative conservation partnership initiative; (8) wildlife habitat; (9) conservation loan guarantees; (10) market access; (11) food stamps; (12) farm and ranch profitability grants; (13) community forest and open space conservation; (14) healthy forests reserve; (15) biomass and renewable energy; (16) specialty crops, farmers' markets, and nutrition; (17) organic agriculture programs; (18) crop insurance; and (18) colony collapse disorder.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on May 17, 2007.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Original | May 17, 2007 |
| D-MA | John F. Kerry | Original | May 17, 2007 |
| I-CT | Joseph I. Lieberman | Original | May 17, 2007 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Finance Committee | Referred May 17, 2007 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 17, 2007Introduced in Senate
- May 17, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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
- A bill to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2013, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Farm, Nutrition, and Community Investment Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Administrative remedies
- Agricultural conservation
- Agricultural cooperatives
- Agricultural credit
- Agricultural education
- Agricultural estimating and reporting
- Agricultural extension work
- Agricultural industries
- Agricultural innovations
- Agricultural insurance
- Agricultural pollution
- Agricultural prices
- Agricultural research
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agricultural wastes
- Agriculture and Food
- Agriculture in foreign trade
- Alcohol as fuel
- Alternative energy sources
- American Samoa
- Animals
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Authorization
- Bees
- Biomass energy
- Biotechnology
- Block grants
- Carbon cycle
- Cellulose
- Chesapeake Bay
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Commerce
- Competitive bidding
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Connecticut
- Conservation easements
- Consumer education
- Crop insurance
- Dairy industry
- Day care
- Defense procurement
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electric power production
- Elementary and secondary education
- Energy
- Energy efficiency
- Energy research
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental research
- Families
- Farm income
- Farm lands
- Farm produce
- Farms
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to education
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Food relief
- Food safety
- Food stamps
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Foreign trade promotion
- Forest conservation
- Forest management
- Fruit
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government procurement
- Governmental investigations
- Grants-in-aid
- Great Lakes
- Habitat conservation
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Hydroelectric power
- Immigrants
- Immigration
- Income
- Income tax
- Indemnity
- Individual retirement accounts
- Industrial buildings
- Labor and Employment
- Land transfers
- Land use
- Landfills
- Law
- Livestock
- Marketing of farm produce
- Marketing orders
- Massachusetts
- Methane
- Military pay
- Milk
- Minorities
- Nanotechnology
- Native Americans
- New York State
- Nutrition
- Open space lands
- Organic farming
- Post exchanges
- Poultry
- Private forests
- Product development
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Puerto Rico
- Range management
- Rebates
- Research and development
- Rural economic development
- Scholarships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Service academies
- Shellfish
- Small business
- Social Welfare
- Soil conservation
- Soil erosion
- Solar energy
- Standards
- Strategic planning
- Student loan funds
- Tax exclusion
- Taxation
- Technology transfer
- Vegetables
- Water conservation
- Water Resources Development
- Watersheds
- Welfare eligibility
- Welfare work participation
- Wetlands
- WIC program
- Wind power
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 17, 2007Introduced in Senate
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.
