Farm, Ranch, Equity, Stewardship, and Health Act of 2007
Latest action · Oct 24, 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.
- IntroducedOct 24, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Farm, Ranch, Equity, Stewardship, and Health Act of 2007 - Amends the federal crop insurance program.
Establishes: (1) a risk management account contract program; (2) a conservation planning pilot program; (3) a nutrient reduction and sediment control pilot program for the Chesapeake Bay watershed; (4) a national clean plant network; (5) an Office of Pest Management Policy; and (6) a program of hunger-free community collaborative and infrastructure grants.
Extends and revises specified programs for: (1) commodity assistance; (2) conservation; (3) specialty crops; (4) food programs and nutrition, (5) agricultural trade; (6) rural development; (7) forestry; and (8) energy, including biobased products.
Food Employment Empowerment and Development Program Act of 2007 or FEED Act of 2007 - Establishes the food employment empowerment and development program to provide grants to eligible entities to use community resources to combat hunger and the root causes of hunger by creating opportunity through food recovery and job training.
Expresses the sense of Congress that any budgetary savings created by this Act should be used to reduce the federal budget deficit and not be used to offset other federal spending.
Cosponsors 10
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Oct 24, 2007 to Nov 15, 2007; 7 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MD | Benjamin L. Cardin | Original | Oct 24, 2007 |
| D-NJ | Frank R. Lautenberg | Original | Oct 24, 2007 |
| D-RI | Jack Reed | Original | Oct 24, 2007 |
| R-UT | Orrin G. Hatch | Original | Oct 24, 2007 |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Original | Oct 24, 2007 |
| D-RI | Sheldon Whitehouse | Original | Oct 24, 2007 |
| R-ME | Susan M. Collins | Original | Oct 24, 2007 |
| R-NH | John E. Sununu | Oct 25, 2007 | |
| R-NM | Pete V. Domenici | Nov 1, 2007 | |
| D-DE | Thomas R. Carper | Nov 15, 2007 |
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 Oct 24, 2007 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 24, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Oct 24, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S4171 | Richard G. Lugar R-IN | May 14, 2008 |
| Senate | Text printed S13689–S13691 | Olympia J. Snowe R-ME (text) | Nov 1, 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 4
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to extend and improve agricultural programs, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Farm, Ranch, Equity, Stewardship, and Health Act of 2007
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- FEED Act of 2007
- Food Employment Empowerment and Development Program Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Agricultural conservation
- Agricultural innovations
- Agricultural pollution
- Agricultural research
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Agriculture in foreign trade
- Alternative energy sources
- Aquaculture
- Biomass energy
- Budget deficits
- Chesapeake Bay
- Child nutrition
- College costs
- Commerce
- Crop insurance
- Department of Agriculture
- Diet
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education savings accounts
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employment of the disadvantaged
- Energy
- Energy crops
- Energy efficiency
- Energy research
- Environmental Protection
- Executive reorganization
- Families
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Food industry
- Food relief
- Food safety
- Food service
- Food stamps
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Forest conservation
- Forest health
- Fruit
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government procurement
- Grants-in-aid
- Grassland ecology
- Grazing
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Hunger
- Income
- Individual retirement accounts
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- Integrated pest management
- International Affairs
- Labor and Employment
- Land use
- Marketing of farm produce
- Military pay
- Non-native species
- Nutrition
- Organic farming
- Pest control
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Research and development
- Rural economic development
- School lunch program
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sediment control
- Small business
- Social Welfare
- Tax-deferred compensation plans
- Unemployment
- Vegetables
- Water pollution control
- Water Resources Development
- Watersheds
- Welfare eligibility
- Wetlands
- WIC program
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 24, 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.
