SWEET Act
Latest action · Aug 9, 2019 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.
- IntroducedJul 11, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Saving Workers by Eliminating Economic Tampering Act or the SWEET Act
This bill eliminates certain Department of Agriculture (USDA) sugar subsidy programs.
Specifically, the bill eliminates (1) the price support loan program available to processors of domestically grown sugarcane and sugar beets, (2) the sugar marketing allotments and tariff-rate quotas that limit the quantities of domestically produced sugar that processors may sell and the sugar that may be imported under lower tariff rates, and (3) the feedstock flexibility program for bioenergy producers which operates to avoid loan forfeitures to the USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation by requiring USDA to purchase surplus sugar from domestic processors for resale to bioenergy producers.
Cosponsors 5
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 11, 2019 to Oct 11, 2019; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-PA | John Joyce | Original | Jul 11, 2019 |
| R-PA | Lloyd Smucker | Original | Jul 11, 2019 |
| R-PA | Mike Kelly | Original | Jul 11, 2019 |
| R-KY | Thomas Massie | Sep 27, 2019 | |
| I-MI | Justin Amash | Oct 11, 2019 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Jul 11, 2019 |
| General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit Subcommittee | Referred Aug 9, 2019 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Aug 9, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
- Jul 11, 2019Introduced in House
- Jul 11, 2019Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
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. 165, no. 116, July 11, 2019, page H5727.
Printed hearings 1
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. 116-35 | PREVENTING HARM TO VETERANS: EXAMINING VA'S OVERPAYMENTS AND DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES55 pages | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Sep 19, 2019 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To repeal the sugar program under the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 and certain other programs relating to sugar, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- SWEET Act
- Saving Workers by Eliminating Economic Tampering Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 11, 2019Introduced 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.
