This site contains the text of all the bills as introduced in the 107th Congress that have been referred to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and other ag-related bills not referred to the Agriculture Committee.
Last updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2003
Bills Referred to the Agriculture Committee
| U.S. Senate Bill | Date Introduced |
| S. Res. 13 - resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the need for Congress to enact a new farm bill during the 1st session of the 107th Congress | January 22, 2001 |
| S. 20 - enhances fair and open competition in the production and sale of agricultural commodities, and for other purposes | January 22, 2001 |
| S. 105 - amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from basing minimum prices for Class I milk on the distance or transportation costs from any location that is not within a marketing area, except under certain circumstances, and for other purposes | January 22, 2001 |
| S. 107 - allows modified bloc voting by cooperative associations of milk producers in connection with a referendum on Federal Milk Marketing Order reform | January 22, 2001 |
| S. 109 - establishes the Dairy Farmer Viability Commission | January 22, 2001 |
| S. 111 - amends the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 to ensure that all persons who benefit from the dairy promotion and research program contribute to the cost of the program | January 22, 2001 |
| S. 117 - prohibits products that contain dry ultra-filtered milk products or casein from being labeled as domestic natural cheese, and for other purposes | January 22, 2001 |
| S. 118 - strengthens the penalties for violations of plant quarantine laws | January 22, 2001 |
| S. 130 - amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act to establish a flexible fallow program under which a producer may idle a portion of the total planted acreage of the loan commodities of the producer in exchange for higher loan rates for marketing assistance loans on the remaining acreage of the producer | January 22, 2001 |
| S. 142 - amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to make unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter | January 22, 2001 |
| S. 144 - requires country of origin labeling of peanuts and peanut products and to establish penalties for violations of the labeling requirements | January 23, 2001 |
| S. 165 - amends the Agriculture Market Transition Act to increase loan rates for marketing assistance loans for each of the 2001 and 2002 crops, to make nonrecourse marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments available to producers of dry peas, lentils, chickpeas, and rye, and for other purposes | January 24, 2001 |
| S. 267 - amend the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921, to make it unlawful for any stockyard owner, market agency, or dealer to transfer or market nonambulatory livestock, and for other purposes | February 6, 2001 |
| S. 280 - amends the Agriculture Marketing Act of 1946 to require retailers of beef, lamb, pork, and perishable agricultural commodities to inform consumers, at the final point of sale to consumers, of the country of origin of the commodities | February 7, 2001 |
| S. 294 - amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to establish a program to provide dairy farmers a price safety net for small- and medium-sized dairy producers | February 8, 2001 |
| S. 345 - amends the Animal Welfare Act to strike the limitation that permits interstate movement of live birds, for the purpose of fighting, to States in which animal fighting is lawful | February 15, 2001 |
| S. 366 - amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to increase the amount of funds available for certain agricultural trade programs | February 15, 2001 |
| S. 380 - amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide that agricultural producers that suffer or are likely to suffer substantial economic injury as the result of a sharp and significant increase in certain costs are eligible to receive emergency loans | February 15, 2001 |
| S. 532 - amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to permit a State to register a Canadian pesticide for distribution and use within that State | March 14, 2001 |
| S. 544 - amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to provide that a quality grade label issued by the Secretary of Agriculture may not be used for imported meat and meat food products | March 15, 2001 |
| S. 568 - amends the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, responds to the severe economic losses being incurred by crop producers, livestock and poultry producers, and greenhouse operators as a result of the sharp increase in energy costs or input costs from energy sources | March 20, 2001 |
| S. 583 - amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to improve nutrition assistance for working families and the elderly, and for other purposes | March 21, 2001 |
| S. 657 - authorizes funding for the National 4-H Program Centennial Initiative | March 29, 2001 |
| S. 668 - amends the Animal Welfare Act to ensure that all dogs and cats used by research facilities are obtained legally | March 30, 2001 |
| S. 708 - provides the citizens of the United States and Congress with a report on coordinated actions by Federal agencies to prevent the introduction of foot and mouth disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy into the United States and other information to assess the economic and public health impacts associated with the potential threats presented by those diseases | April 5, 2001 |
| S. 716 - amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agricultural to make grants to nonprofit organizations to finance the construction, refurbishing, and servicing of individually-owned household water well systems in rural areas for individuals with low or moderate incomes | April 5, 2001 |
| S. 745 - amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to promote better nutrition among school children participating in the school breakfast and lunch programs | April 6, 2001 |
| S. 758 - amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize the annual enrollment of land in the wetlands reserve program, to extend the wetlands reserve program through 2005, and for other purposes | April 24, 2001 |
| S. 769 - establishes a carbon sequestration program and an implementing panel within the Department of Commerce to enhance international conservation, promotes the role of carbon sequestration as a means of slowing the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and rewards and encourages voluntary, pro-active environmental efforts on the issue of global climate change | April 24, 2001 |
| S. 785 - amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a carbon sequestration program to permit owners and operators of land to enroll the land in the program to increase the sequestration of carbon, and for other purposes | April 26, 2001 |
| S. 877 - amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require that a warning label be affixed to arsenic-treated wood sold in the United States | May 14, 2001 |
| S. 909 - improves the administration of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes | May 17, 2001 |
| S. 923 - amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act to extend the expansion of producers that are eligible for loan deficiency payments | May 21, 2001 |
| S. 932 - amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to establish the conservation security program | May 22, 2001 |
| S. 977 - amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make nonrecourse marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments available to producers of dry peas, lentils, and chickpeas | May 25, 2001 |
| S. 997 - directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct research, monitoring, management, treatment, and outreach activities relating to sudden oak death syndrome and to establish a Sudden Oak Death Syndrome Advisory Committee | June 7, 2001 |
| S. 1018 - provides market loss assistance for apple producers | June 12, 2001 |
| S. 1036 - amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to establish an international food for education and child nutrition program | June 13, 2001 |
| S. 1072 - extends eligibility for loan deficiency payments and payments in lieu of loan deficiency payments | June 20, 2001 |
| S.1098 - amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to improve food stamp informational activities in those States with the greatest rate of hunger | June 27, 2001 |
| S. 1111 - amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the National Rural Development Partnership, and for other purposes | June 27, 2001 |
| S. 1123 - amends the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 to ensure that all persons who benefit from the dairy promotion and research program contribute to the cost of the program, and for other purposes | June 28, 2001 |
| S. 1153 - amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to establish a grassland reserve program to assist owners in restoring and protecting grassland | June 29, 2001 |
| S. 1179 - amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to ensure an adequate level of commodity purchases under the school lunch program | July 16, 2001 |
| S. 1246 - responds to the continuing economic crisis adversely affecting American agricultural producers | July 25, 2001 |
| S. 1255 - encourages the use of carbon storage sequestration practices in the United States | July 26, 2001 |
| S. 1267 - extends and improve conservation programs administered by the Secretary of Agriculture | July 27, 2001 |
| S. 1326 - extends and improves working lands and other conservation programs administered by the Secretary of Agriculture | August 2, 2001 |
| S. 1354 - requires the Secretary of Agriculture to provide payments to producers of forage crops for losses due to army worms | August 3, 2001 |
| S. 1413 - amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit borrowers and grantees to use certain rural development loans and grants for other purposes under certain circumstances | September 10, 2001 |
| S. 1466 - amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide grants for special environmental assistance for the regulation of communities and habitat ("SEARCH grants") to small communities | September 26, 2001 |
| S. 1474 - amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to extend and improve the collection of maintenance fees, and for other purposes | September 26, 2001 |
| S. 1478 - amends the Animal Welfare Act to improve the treatment of certain animals, and for other purposes | October 1, 2001 |
| S. 1482 - consolidates and revises the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture relating to protection of animal health | October 2, 2001 |
| S. 1519 - amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide farm credit assistance for activated reservists | October 9, 2001 |
| S. 1527 - amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend and improve the environmental quality incentive program | October 10, 2001 |
| S. 1538 - further continues economic viability in the communities on the High Plains by promoting sustainable groundwater management of the Ogallala Aquifer | October 11, 2001 |
| S. 1540 - extends and improves the emergency food assistance program | October 11, 2001 |
| S. 1546 - provides additional funding to combat bioterrorism | October 15, 2001 |
| S. 1563 - establishes a coordinated program of science-based countermeasures to address the threats of agricultural bioterrorism | October 17, 2001 |
| S. 1571 - provides for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2006 | October 18, 2001 |
| S. 1595 - authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to control bovine Johne's disease | October 31, 2001 |
| S. 1604 - establishes a national historic barn preservation program | October 31, 2001 |
| S. 1628 - strengthens the safety net for agricultural producers, to enhance resource conservation and rural development, to provide for farm credit, agricultural research, nutrition, and related programs, to ensure consumers abundant food and fiber, and for other purposes | November 2, 2001 |
| S. 1629 - provides farmers with better prices and higher profits through the marketplace | November 5, 2001 |
| S. 1633 - amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish a program to provide assistance to States and nonprofit organizations to preserve suburban open space and contain suburban sprawl, and for other purposes | November 5, 2001 |
| S. 1652 - amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act to convert the price support program for sugarcane and sugar beets into a system of solely recourse loans and to provide for the gradual elimination of the program | November 7, 2001 |
| S. 1673 - provides for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2011 | November 9, 2001 |
| S. 1674 - amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to issue marketing orders for caneberries | November 9, 2001 |
| S. 1681 - establishes the Northern Great Plains Rural Development Authority | November 13, 2001 |
| S. 1683 - amends the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to permit States to use administrative funds to pay costs relating to the processing, transporting, and distributing to eligible recipient agencies of donated wild game | November 14, 2001 |
| S. 1727 - rewards the stewards of America's farms, ranches, public and private lands, wildlife, water quality and supply, to reduce the risk of speciality crop production, and for other purposes | November 16, 2001 |
| S. 1731 - strengthens the safety net for agricultural producers, to enhance resource conservation and rural development, provides for farm credit, agricultural research, nutrition, and related programs, ensures consumers abundant food and fiber, and for other purposes | November 27, 2001 |
| S. 1815 - amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a pilot program under which the Secretary shall make grants to local units of government or local nonprofit organizations in the State of Arkansas to employ non-Federal resource conservation and development coordinators | December 13, 2001 |
| S. 1938 - amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to establish a grant program to train farm workers in new agricultural technologies | February 13, 2002 |
| S. 1951 - provides regulatory oversight over energy trading markets, and for other purposes | February 14, 2002 |
| S. 1960 - amends the Biomass Research and Development Act of 2000 to encourage production of biobased energy products, and for other purposes | February 15, 2002 |
| S. 1973 - amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to exclude certain basic allowances for housing of a member of a uniformed service from the determination of eligibility for free and reduced price meals of a child of the member- | February 28, 2002 |
| S. 2013 - clarifies the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe performance standards for the reduction of pathogens in meat, meat products, poultry, and poultry products processed by establishments receiving inspection services | March 14, 2002 |
| S. 2021 - amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to prohibit the use of certain anti-competitive forward contracts | March 15, 2002 |
| S. 2040 - provides emergency agricultural assistance to producers of the 2002 crop | March 21, 2002 |
| S. 2063 - authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange all or part of certain administrative sites and other land in the Ozark-St. Francis and Ouachita National Forests and to use funds derived from the sale or exchange to acquire, construct, or improve administrative sites | March 21, 2002 |
| S. 2086 - provides emergency agricultural assistance | April 10, 2002 |
| S. 2108 - amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to assist the neediest of senior citizens by modifying the eligibility criteria for supplemental foods provided under the commodity supplemental food program to take into account the extraordinarily high out-of-pocket medical expenses that senior citizens pay, and for other purposes | April 11, 2002 |
| S. 2183 - provides emergency agricultural assistance to producers of the 2002 crop | April 17, 2002 |
| S. 2334 - authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to accept the donation of certain land in the Mineral Hill-Crevice Mountain Mining District in the State of Montana, and for other purposes | April 25, 2002 |
| S. 2450 - withdraws Federal land in Finger Lakes National Forest, New York, from entry, location, appropriation, disposal patent, or leasing under certain Federal laws | May 2, 2002 |
| S. 2532 - amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to improve the safety of meat and poultry products | May 17, 2002 |
| S. 2560 - provides for a multi-agency cooperative effort to encourage further research regarding the causes of chronic wasting disease and methods to control the further spread of the disease in deer and elk herds, to monitor the incidence of the disease, to support State efforts to control the disease, and for other purposes | May 23, 2002 |
| S. 2660 - amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to increase the number of children participating in the summer food service program | June 20, 2002 |
| S.
2706 - improves economic opportunity and development in communities
that are dependent on tobacco production, and
for other purposes |
June 28, 2002 |
| S. 2724 - provides regulatory oversight over energy trading markets and metals trading markets, and for other purposes | July 11, 2002 |
| S. 2728 - provides emergency agricultural disaster assistance | July 15, 2002 |
| S. 2749 - establishes the Highlands Stewardship Area in the States of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, and for other purposes | July 17, 2002 |
| S. 2767 - enhances agricultural biosecurity in the United States through increased prevention, preparation, and response planning | July 22, 2002 |
| S. 2768 - provides to agricultural producers emergency livestock assistance and assistance for control of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets, with offsets | July 22, 2002 |
| S. 2774 - transfers to the Secretary of Homeland Security the functions of the Secretary of Agriculture relative to agricultural import and entry inspection activities | July 23, 2002 |
| S. 2800 - provides emergency disaster assistance to agricultural producers | July 25, 2002 |
| S. 2803 - amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Producers Inspection Act, and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for improved public heath and food safety through enhanced enforcement, and for other purposes | July 26, 2002 |
| S. 2811 - directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to designate certain Federal forest land at risk for catastrophic wildfires as emergency mitigation areas, to authorize the use of alternative arrangements in those areas, and for other purposes | July 26, 2002 |
| S. 2814 - amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to clarify the rates applicable to marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments for other oilseed | July 29, 2002 |
| S. 2830 - provides emergency disaster assistance to agricultural producers | July 31, 2002 |
| S. 2834 - provides emergency livestock assistance to agricultural producers, with an offset | August 1, 2002 |
| S. 2867 - amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to increase competition and transparency among packers that purchase livestock from producers | August 1, 2002 |
| S. 2920 - expedites procedures for hazardous fuels reductions activities and for other purposes | September 10, 2002 |
| S. 2976 - provides economic disaster assistance to producers of the 202 crop of rice in the State of Louisiana | September 19, 2002 |
| S. 2995 - improves economic opportunity and development in communities that are dependent on tobacco production, and for other purposes | September 24, 2002 |
| S. 3004 - eliminates the Federal quota and price support programs for certain tobacco, to compensate quota owners and holders for the loss of tobacco quota asset value, to establish a tobacco community reinvestment program, and for other purposes | September 25, 2002 |
| S. 3106 - amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish research, extension, and educational programs to implement biobased energy technologies, products, and economic diversification in rural areas of the United States | September 30, 2002 |
| S. 3022 - amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to suspend the requirement that rental payments under the conservation reserve program be reduced by reason of harvesting or grazing conducted in response to a drought or other emergency | October 1, 2002 |
| S. 3023 - requires the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to expand and strengthen cooperative efforts to restore and protect forests in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and for other purposes | October 1, 2002 |
| S. 3062 - directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study of the effectiveness of silver-based biocides as an alternative treatment to preserve wood | October 4, 2002 |
| S. 3068 - amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to use the price of feed grains and other cash expenses as factors to determine the basic formula price for milk under milk marketing orders | October 7, 2002 |
| S. 3090 - provides for the testing of chronic wasting disease and other infectious disease in deer and elk herds, to establish the Interagency Task Force on Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease, and for other purposes | October 10, 2002 |
| S. 3094 - amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to clarify the rates applicable to marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments for other oilseeds, dry peas, lentils, and small chickpeas | October 10, 2002 |
| S. 3095 - amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require premarket consultation and approval with respect to genetically engineered foods, and for other purposes | October 10, 2002 |
| S. 3111 - compensates agricultural producers in the State of New Mexico that suffered crop losses as a result of use of a herbicide by the Bureau of Land Management | October 15, 2002 |
| S. 3115 - authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange certain land in the State of Florida, and for other purposes | October 16, 2002 |
| S. 3118 - strengthens enforcement of provisions of the Animal Welfare Act relating to animal fighting, and for other purposes | October 16, 2002 |
| S. 3160 - provides emergency disaster assistance to agricultural producers | November 14, 2002 |
| S. 3181 - amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to ensure that the interest rate for direct loans paid by low income, limited resource borrowers is less than the interest rate for direct loans paid by other borrowers under the Act | November 20, 2002 |
Ag-Related Bills Not Referred to the Agriculture Committee
| U.S. Senate Bill | Date Introduced |
| S. 282 - establishes in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice a position with responsibility for agricultural antitrust matters. | February 7, 2001 |
| S. 555 - amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a tolerance for the presence of methylmercury in seafood, and for other purposes | March 15, 2001 |
| S. 599 - amends the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to establish permanent trade negotiating and trade agreement implementing authority | Marh 22, 2001 |
| S. 753 - amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to prevent circumvention of the sugar tariff-rate quotas | April 6, 2001 |
| S. 1100 - amend the Trade Act of 1974 to provide trade adjustment assistance to farmers | June 26, 2001 |
| S. 1103 - amend title 49, United States Code, to enhance competition among and between rail carriers in order to ensure efficient rail service and reasonable rail rates in any case in which there is an absence of effective competition, and for other purposes | June 26, 2001 |
| S. 1551 - amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to add provisions regarding protecting the United States food supply | October 15, 2001 |
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