Rural Opportunities Act of 2007
Latest action · Feb 8, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1800-1808)
Progress
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- IntroducedFeb 8, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Rural Opportunities Act of 2007 - Amends the Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) make state grants for extension, education, applied research, and development activities at institutions of higher education, state agencies, or partnerships for local and regional bioenergy and biobased product use and production; and (2) provide funds for basic research on next generation technology.
Authorizes the Secretary to make supplemental rural cooperative development grants.
Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary to: (1) establish regional bonus grant funds for bioenergy and biobased products competitive research, education, and extension programs; and (2) carry out agroforestry conversion and cellulosic production pilot programs.
Extends: (1) the renewable energy systems and energy improvements program; and (2) the value-added agricultural grant program.
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary to make state grants for development of the next generation of farmers, ranchers, and other land managers. Directs the Secretary to carry out specified pilot programs.
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend: (1) the beginning farmer and rancher development program; and (2) the organic certification cost-share program.
Directs the Secretary to identify barriers to small, beginning, limited resource, and socially disadvantaged producers in conservation and farm support programs.
Authorizes funds for rural technology transfers.
Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to extend the best utilization of biological applications program. Establishes a federal-state matching grant program.
Extends: (1) the national training program; (2) the organic agriculture research and extension program; and (3) the socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers outreach and technical assistance program.
Amends the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 to direct the Secretary to establish a national organic agriculture conversion and stewardship incentives program.
Authorizes geographic produce and food procurement preferences for certain Department of Defense and Department of Agriculture programs.
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to extend the women, infants, and children (WIC) farmers' market nutrition program.
Amends the Farmer-to-Consumer Direct Marketing Act of 1976 to extend the farmers market promotion program.
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to extend, and revise funding provisions for, assistance for community food projects.
Requires: (1) broadband service providers to provide the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with specified information; and (2) the FCC to provide Congress with demographic information for underserved areas.
Sets forth specified offset provisions.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
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 Feb 8, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 8, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Feb 8, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1796-1800)
- Feb 8, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1800-1808)
In the Congressional Record 1
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 S1796–S1799Text printed S1800–S1808 | Russell D. Feingold D-WI (text) | Feb 8, 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
- A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to promote local and regional support for sustainable bioenergy and biobased products, to support the future of farming, forestry, and land management, to develop and support local bioenergy, biobased products, and food systems, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Rural Opportunities Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Administrative procedure
- Agricultural conservation
- Agricultural credit
- Agricultural education
- Agricultural extension work
- Agricultural innovations
- Agricultural pollution
- Agricultural research
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Alternative energy sources
- Animals
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Authorization
- Biomass energy
- Broadband
- Cellulose
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Dairy industry
- Defense contracts
- Demography
- Department of Agriculture
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee training
- Energy
- Energy crops
- Environmental Protection
- Executive reorganization
- Families
- Farmers
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to education
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Food relief
- Food stamps
- Forestry
- Fruit
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government procurement
- Government spending reductions
- Grants-in-aid
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Internet
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Livestock
- Marketing of farm produce
- Minorities
- Minority business enterprises
- Organic farming
- Pest control
- Pesticides
- Produce trade
- Protection of animals
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Rural economic development
- School lunch program
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Small farms
- Social Welfare
- Sustainable agriculture
- Technology transfer
- Vegetables
- WIC program
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 8, 2007Introduced in Senate
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