HR 693 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Sugar Reform Act of 2013

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 1, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

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.

  1. IntroducedFeb 14, 2013
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Sugar Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to make loans available to processors of domestically grown sugarcane (18 cents per pound) and sugar beet processors through FY2017.

Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to make specified sugarcane and sugar beet quantity estimates through crop year 2017.

Requires that sugar allotments be appropriate to maintain adequate supplies at reasonable prices, taking into account all domestic supply sources, including imports.

Authorizes the Secretary to suspend or modify marketing allotments, taking into account: (1) the interests of consumers, food industry workers, businesses, and agricultural producers; and (2) the competitiveness of domestically produced and imported foods containing sugar.

Revises sugar tariff-rate quota adjustment provisions to direct the Secretary to: (1) adjust tariff-rates to provide adequate domestic sugar supplies at reasonable prices, (2) establish and adjust tariff-rate quotas so that the ratio of sugar stocks to total sugar use at the end of the quota year will be approximately 15.5%, and (3) promulgate regulations that permit any country that has been allocated a quota share to temporarily transfer all or part of the share to any other country that has also been allocated a quota share.

Extends flexible marketing sugar allotment authority through crop year 2017.

Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to repeal the feedstock flexibility program for bioenergy producers.

Cosponsors 91

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 14, 2013 to Jun 26, 2013, with 36 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-MDAndy HarrisOriginalFeb 14, 2013
R-OHBill JohnsonOriginalFeb 14, 2013
D-NJBill Pascrell, Jr.OriginalFeb 14, 2013
R-PABill ShusterOriginalFeb 14, 2013
R-VABob GoodlatteOriginalFeb 14, 2013
D-ILBobby L. RushOriginalFeb 14, 2013
D-NHCarol Shea-PorterOriginalFeb 14, 2013
R-TNCharles J. "Chuck" FleischmannOriginalFeb 14, 2013
R-PACharles W. DentOriginalFeb 14, 2013
D-ILDaniel LipinskiOriginalFeb 14, 2013
D-ILDanny K. DavisOriginalFeb 14, 2013
R-TNDiane BlackOriginalFeb 14, 2013
D-OREarl BlumenauerOriginalFeb 14, 2013
R-PAGlenn ThompsonOriginalFeb 14, 2013
D-CAJackie SpeierOriginalFeb 14, 2013

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Mar 1, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
  2. Feb 14, 2013Introduced in House
  3. Feb 14, 2013Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

Related bills 1

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

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 345Sugar Reform Act of 2013Identical billFeb 14, 2013

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Feb 14, 2013Introduced in House

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