HR 3286 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act of 2011

Introduced Nov 1, 2011 Originated House Sponsor Chellie Pingree D-ME

Latest action · Nov 1, 2011 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Progress

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IntroducedNov 1, 2011
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act of 2011 - Provides for the inclusion of locally or regionally produced agricultural food products under specified agricultural, rural development, agricultural research, crop insurance, and nutrition programs.

Directs the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to offer a whole farm adjusted revenue risk management insurance plan that allows a producer to qualify for an indemnity if actual gross farm revenue is below 85% of the producer's average gross farm revenue.

Prohibits the Corporation from requiring organic crop insurance premium surcharges.

Directs the Corporation to offer organic crop producers price elections that reflect actual retail or wholesale prices.

Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (formerly known as the Food Stamp Act of 1977) to require state agencies to treat wireless retailers in the same manner as wired program retail food stores for purposes of supplemental nutrition assistance (SNAP, formerly food stamp) benefits. Defines "wireless retailer" to include: (1) a farmers market, (2) a farm stand, (3) a green cart, (4) a route vendor, (5) an entity operating a community-supported agriculture or fishery program, (6) a buying club, and (7) a farmer affiliated with such entities.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a wireless retailer electronic benefit transfer pilot program for smartphone technology.

Extends: (1) the program of fresh fruit and vegetable purchases for distribution to schools and service institutions; (2) the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC) farmers' market nutrition program; (3) the seniors farmers' market nutrition program; (4) the rural business opportunity grant program; (5) the value-added agricultural product market development grant program; (6) the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative; (7) the specialty block grant program; and (8) the national organic certification cost-share program.

Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to permit schools to use an amount equal to 15% of their commodity dollars for purchases of locally grown food.

Increases the annual fiscal year limit for community food project grants.

Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary to make and guarantee loans for the production of locally or regionally produced agricultural food products.

Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to evaluate how the credit needs of young, beginning, and small farmers and local and regional farm and food systems are being met by the Farm Credit System, USDA, the Department of the Treasury, and any other federal agencies.

Amends the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 to direct: (1) the Secretary to distribute price reporting of locally or regionally produced agricultural food products, and (2) the Under Secretary to establish a special initiative to coordinate USDA research relating to classical plant and animal breeding.

Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to direct the Secretary to increase technical assistance for sustainable local and regional food systems.

Amends the the Farmer-to-Consumer Direct Marketing Act of 1976 to establish the local marketing promotion program (in lieu of the farmers market promotion program) to promote producer-to-consumer marketing, including farmers markets and other local and regional food markets.

Directs the Secretary to establish in the Food Safety and Inspection Service technical assistance divisions to provide directly or through grants outreach, education, and training to very small or certain small meat and poultry processing plants.

Directs the Secretary to establish an electronic option for meat and poultry label preapproval.

Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to provide funding for the national food safety training, education, outreach, and technical assistance program.

Cosponsors 77

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Nov 1, 2011 to May 9, 2012; 29 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-NY	Brian Higgins	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-RI	David N. Cicilline	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-MA	Edward J. Markey	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-MP	Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-WI	Gwen Moore	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-VA	James P. Moran	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-CA	Janice Hahn	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-CT	Joe Courtney	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-MA	John W. Olver	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-MN	Keith Ellison	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-CA	Laura Richardson	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-VT	Peter Welch	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-WI	Ron Kind	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-NJ	Rush Holt	Original	Nov 1, 2011
D-CA	Bob Filner		Nov 2, 2011
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards		Nov 2, 2011
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Nov 2, 2011
D-GA	John Lewis		Nov 2, 2011
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		Nov 2, 2011
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Nov 2, 2011
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Nov 7, 2011
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Nov 7, 2011
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		Nov 7, 2011
D-CA	Lois Capps		Nov 7, 2011
D-HI	Mazie K. Hirono		Nov 7, 2011
D-MO	Russ Carnahan		Nov 7, 2011
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Nov 7, 2011
D-MA	Barney Frank		Nov 14, 2011
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Nov 14, 2011
D-NY	Edolphus Towns		Nov 14, 2011
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Nov 14, 2011
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Nov 14, 2011
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Nov 14, 2011
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Nov 14, 2011
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Nov 14, 2011
D-NY	William L. Owens		Nov 14, 2011
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Nov 16, 2011
D-MA	Niki Tsongas		Nov 16, 2011
D-IN	André Carson		Nov 29, 2011
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Nov 29, 2011
D-MI	Hansen Clarke		Nov 29, 2011
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Nov 29, 2011
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Dec 1, 2011
D-CA	Howard L. Berman		Dec 1, 2011
D-NM	Martin Heinrich		Dec 1, 2011
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Dec 16, 2011
D-CA	Jackie Speier		Dec 16, 2011
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Dec 16, 2011
D-NC	David E. Price		Jan 24, 2012
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Jan 24, 2012
D-CA	Sam Farr		Jan 31, 2012
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Feb 6, 2012
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Mar 1, 2012
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Mar 22, 2012
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Mar 26, 2012
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		Mar 27, 2012
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark		Apr 16, 2012
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Apr 16, 2012
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Apr 16, 2012
D-MA	William R. Keating		Apr 16, 2012
D-WA	Jim McDermott		May 9, 2012
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		May 9, 2012

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 Nov 1, 2011
House	Education and Workforce Committee	Referred Nov 1, 2011
	Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee	Referred Nov 18, 2011

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Nov 1, 2011Introduced in House
Nov 1, 2011Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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 H7640	Chellie Pingree D-ME	Nov 16, 2011
House	Lists H7207H.R. 3286-3305	—	Nov 1, 2011

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.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 1--The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States. Article I, Section 8, Clause 18--To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H7207.

Printed hearings 2

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 112-30	FORMULATION OF THE 2012 FARM BILL882 pages	Agriculture Committee	Apr 25, 2012–May 18, 2012
Serial No. 112-30	THE FUTURE OF U.S. FARM POLICY: FORMULATION OF THE 2012 FARM BILL1,639 pages	Agriculture Committee	Mar 9, 2012–Apr 20, 2012

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
R41613	Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Issues in the 112th Congress Archived	Report	Jan 22, 2013

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 1773	Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act of 2011	Related bill	Nov 1, 2011

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To promote local and regional farm and food systems, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act of 2011

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Nov 1, 2011Introduced in House

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