Congress 115 - HR 4425 - Food and Farm Act

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Administrative law and regulatory procedures Advisory bodies Agricultural conservation and pollution Agricultural education Agricultural insurance Agricultural marketing and promotion Agricultural practices and innovations Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit Agricultural research Agriculture and Food Air quality Alaska American Samoa Animal protection and human-animal relationships Caribbean area Charitable contributions Climate change and greenhouse gases Competition and antitrust Congressional oversight Consumer affairs Crimes against animals and natural resources Department of Agriculture Employment and training programs Executive agency funding and structure Farmland Food assistance and relief Food industry and services Food supply, safety, and labeling Government information and archives Government lending and loan guarantees Guam Hawaii Income tax credits Livestock Mammals Meat Minority and disadvantaged businesses Nutrition and diet Poverty and welfare assistance Puerto Rico Research administration and funding Solid waste and recycling Trade restrictions U.S. territories and protectorates Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation Virgin Islands Wetlands

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Food and Farm Act

This bill reauthorizes and modifies several Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs that address:

The bill modifies agriculture and nutrition policies to:

repeal the Agriculture Risk Coverage Program and the Price Loss Coverage Program,
impose additional limits on farm subsidies,
extend crop insurance premium subsidies to farmers who plant crops to reduce erosion,
require recipients of farm subsidies to comply with additional conservation requirements,
authorize increased funding for conservation programs,
authorize additional assistance under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program for organic farmers,
establish a loan program for conservation-based structural improvements,
increase Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) benefits,
authorize additional assistance for beginning farmers and ranchers,
establish the Office of Food Waste within USDA,
authorize additional funding for research and education programs,
require USDA to comply with certain animal welfare standards at federal agricultural research centers,
require USDA to reinstate online posting of Animal Welfare Act and Horse Protection Act enforcement records, and
expand grant and loan programs for local and regional food systems.

Actions

Nov 16, 2017

Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Foreign Affairs, 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.
Nov 16, 2017

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1581)
Nov 16, 2017

Introduced in House

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