Promoting American Agricultural and Medical Exports to Cuba Act of 2017
Latest action · Feb 8, 2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
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.
- IntroducedJan 13, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Promoting American Agricultural and Medical Exports to Cuba Act of 2017
This bill prohibits the President from restricting direct transfers from a Cuban depository institution to a U.S. depository institution in payment for a product authorized for sale under the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000.
The Department of Agriculture shall provide information and technical assistance to U.S. agricultural producers, cooperative organizations, or state agencies to promote U.S. agricultural exports products to Cuba.
The bill authorizes the issuance of temporary entry visas to Cuban nationals to facilitate purchase of U.S. agricultural products.
The Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 is amended to repeal the prohibition on enforcement of rights to certain U.S. intellectual properties and such properties' transfer.
The bill prohibits the regulation or prohibition of travel to or from Cuba by U.S. citizens or legal residents, or any of the transactions ordinarily incident to such travel, if such travel would be lawful in the United States.
The President shall rescind all regulations in effect on the date of the enactment of this bill that regulate or prohibit such travel or transactions.
Included in such transactions are: (1) accompanied personal baggage; (2) payment of living expenses and the acquisition of personal-use goods or services; (3) travel arrangements; (4) nonscheduled air, sea, or land voyage transactions; and (5) normal banking transactions.
Such provision shall not apply in time of war or armed hostilities between the United States and Cuba or when there is imminent danger to the public health or the physical safety of U.S. citizens or legal residents.
The bill amends: (1) the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992 to repeal the requirement for onsite verification of certain medical exports to Cuba, and (2) the Internal Revenue Code to increase the airport ticket tax for transportation between the United States and Cuba by $1 and to establish the Agricultural Export Promotion Trust Fund.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jun 21, 2017.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MN | Richard M. Nolan | Jun 21, 2017 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Jun 21, 2017 |
Committees 5
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Foreign Affairs Committee | Referred Jan 13, 2017 |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jan 13, 2017 |
| Trade Subcommittee | Referred Feb 1, 2017 | |
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Jan 13, 2017 |
| Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee | Referred Feb 8, 2017 | |
| Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee | Referred Feb 8, 2017 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Jan 13, 2017 |
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Jan 13, 2017 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 8, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
- Feb 8, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
- Feb 1, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
- Jan 13, 2017Introduced in House
- Jan 13, 2017Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Agriculture, and Financial Services, 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.
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
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 9, January 13, 2017, page H548.
CRS reports 3
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 3
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| RL31139 | Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Remittances Archived | Report | Dec 15, 2022 |
| R45120 | Latin America and the Caribbean: Issues in the 115th Congress Archived | Report | Jan 22, 2019 |
| R44822 | Cuba: U.S. Policy in the 115th Congress Archived | Report | Jan 15, 2019 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To facilitate the export of United States agricultural products to Cuba as authorized by the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000, to remove impediments to the export to Cuba of medical devices and medicines, to allow travel to Cuba by United States legal residents, to establish an agricultural export promotion program with respect to Cuba, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Promoting American Agricultural and Medical Exports to Cuba Act of 2017
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Agricultural trade
- Aviation and airports
- Bank accounts, deposits, capital
- Caribbean area
- Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
- Cuba
- Foreign and international banking
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government trust funds
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Intellectual property
- Latin America
- Property rights
- Sales and excise taxes
- Sanctions
- Trade restrictions
- Transportation costs
- Travel and tourism
- Visas and passports
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 13, 2017Introduced in House
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.
