| U.S. Senate Bill |
Date Introduced |
S. 21 - Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance
Act of 2003
Provides emergency
disaster assistance to agricultural producers |
January 7, 2003 |
| S. 27 - Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act,
1921, to make it unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock
intended for slaughter |
January 7, 2003 |
| S. 33 - 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 |
January 7, 2003 |
S. 40 - Quality Cheese Act of 2003
Prohibits products
that contain dry ultra-filtered milk products or casein from being labeled
as domestic natural cheese, and for other purposes |
January 7, 2003 |
| S. 42 - 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 7, 2003 |
S. 43 - Democracy for Dairy Producers Act of
2003
Allows modified
bloc voting by cooperative associations of milk producers in connection
with a referendum on Federal Milk Marketing Order reform |
January 7, 2003 |
S. 108 - Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance
Act of 2003
Provides emergency
disaster assistance to agricultural producers |
January 9, 2003 |
S. 116 - Florida National Forest Land Management
Act of 2003
Authorizes the
Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange certain land in the State of
Florida, and for other purposes |
January 9, 2003 |
| S. 124 - 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 |
January 9, 2003 |
S. 125 - Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance
Act of 2003
Provides emergency
disaster assistance to agricultural producers |
January 9, 2003 |
| S. 137 - Improves the administration of the
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture,
and for other purposes |
January 9, 2003 |
| S. 325 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing
Act of 1946 to increase competition and transparency among packers that purchase
livestock from producers |
February 6, 2003 |
| S. 332 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,
and Rodenticide Act to permit a State to register a Canadian pesticide for
distribution and use within that State |
February 6, 2003 |
S. 427 - Agriculture Security Assistance Act
Amend the Homeland
Security Act of 2002 to assist States and communities in preparing for and
responding to threats to the agriculture of the United States |
February 24, 2003 |
S. 430 - Agriculture Security Preparedness
Act
Amend the Homeland
Security Act of 2002 to enhance agricultural biosecurity in the United States
through increased prevention, preparation, and response planning |
February 24, 2003 |
| S. 438 - Withdraw Federal land in Finger Lakes
National Forest, New York, from entry, appropriation, disposal, or disposition
under certain Federal laws |
February 25, 2003 |
S. 457 - Organic Restoration Act of 2003
Removes the limitation
on the use of funds to require a farm to feed livestock with organically
produced feed to be certified as an organic farm |
February 26, 2003 |
S. 468 - Senior Nutrition Act of 2003
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 |
February 27, 2003 |
S. 506 - Safe School Food Act of 2003
Amends the Richard
B. Russell National School Lunch Act to ensure the safety of meals served
under the school lunch program and the school breakfast program |
March 4, 2003 |
S. 509 - Energy Market Oversight Act
Modifies the authority
of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to conduct investigations, to
increase the penalties for violations of the Federal Power Act and Natural
Gas Act, to authorize the Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
to contract for consultant services, and for other purposes |
March 4, 2003 |
S. 509 - Energy Market Oversight Act
Modifies the authority
of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to conduct investigations, to
increase the penalties for violations of the Federal Power Act and the Natural
Gas Act, to authorize the Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
to contract for consultant services, and for other purposes |
March 4, 2003 |
| S. 667 - Amend the Food Security Act of 1985
to strengthen payment limitations for commodity payments and benefits |
March 19, 2003 |
S. 736 - Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement
Act
Amend the Animal
Welfare Act to strengthen enforcement of provisions relating to animal fighting,
and for other purposes |
March 27, 2003 |
S. 830 - Chesapeake Bay Watershed Forestry
Program Act of 2003
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 |
April 9, 2003 |
S. 995 - Child Nutrition Initiatives Act of
2003
Amends the Richard
B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966
to improve certain child nutrition programs, and for other purposes |
May 5, 2003 |
S. 996 - Commodity Distribution Act of 2003
Amends the Richard
B. Russell National School Lunch Act to ensure an adequate level of commodity
purchases under the school lunch program |
May 6, 2003 |
S. 999 - Highlands Stewardship Act
Establishes the
Highlands Stewardship Area in the States of Connecticut, New Jersey, New
York, and Pennsylvania, and for other purposes |
May 6, 2003 |
S. 1007 - Better Nutrition for School Children
Act of 2003
Amends the Child
Nutrition Act of 1966 to promote better nutrition among school children
participating in the school breakfast and lunch programs |
May 6, 2003 |
S. 1020 - School Breakfast Improvement Act
of 2003
Amends the Child
Nutrition Act of 1966 and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act
to improve the school breakfast program |
May 7, 2003 |
S. 1021 - Summer Food Service Program Improvement
Act of 2003
Amend the Richard
B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve the summer food service
program for children |
May 7, 2003 |
S. 1022 - Child and Adult Care Food Program
Improvements Act of 2003
Amends the Richard
B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve the child and adult care
food program |
May 7, 2003 |
S. 1036 - Chronic Wasting Disease Support
Act of 2003
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 9, 2003 |
| S. 1041 - Prohibits oil and gas drilling in
Finger Lakes National Forest in the State of New York |
May 12, 2003 |
S. 1044 - Captive Supply Reform Act
Amends the Packers
and Stockyards Act, 1921, to prohibit the use of certain anti-competitive
forward contracts |
May 13, 2003 |
S. 1103 - Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction
and Enforcement Act
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 and to
enforce the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) System requirements,
sanitation requirements, and the performance standards |
May 22, 2003 |
S. 1187 - At-Risk Consumer Protection Through
Food Safety Labeling Act
Amends the Federal
Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to require that
ready-to-eat meat or poultry products that are not produced under a scientifically
validated program to address Listeria monocytogenes be required to bear a
label advising pregnant women and other at-risk consumers of the recommendations
of the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration regarding
consumption of ready-to-eat products, and for other purposes |
June 4, 2003 |
S. 1202 - Meat and Poultry Products Traceability
and Safety Act of 2003
Amends the Federal
Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to improve the
safety of meat and poultry products |
June 5, 2003 |
| S. 1208 - Amends the Cooperative Forestry
Assistance Act of 1978 to establish a program to provide assistance to States
and nonprofit organizations to preserve suburban forest land and open space
and contain suburban sprawl, and for other purposes |
June 9, 2003 |
S. 1256 - Puerto Rico Karst Conservation Act
of 2003
Protects the critical
aquifers and watersheds that serve as a principal water supply for Puerto
Rico, to protect the tropical forests of the Karst Region, and for other
purposes |
June 12, 2003 |
S. 1298 - Downed Animal Protection Act
Amends the Farm
Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to ensure the humane slaughter
of nonambulatory livestock, and for other purposes |
June 19, 2003 |
S. 1309 - Emergency Agricultural Disaster
Assistance Act of 2003
Provides emergency
assistance to producers that have suffered crop losses due to disasters |
June 20, 2003 |
| S. 1352 - Expedites procedures
for hazardous fuels reduction activities and restoration in wildland fire
prone National Forests and for other purposes |
June 26, 2003 |
| S. 1367 - Amends the
Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish programs to promote
increased consumption of milk in schools and to improve the nutrition and
health of children |
June 26, 2003 |
| S. 1392 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National
School Lunch Act to improve the nutrition of students served under child
nutrition programs |
July 10, 2003 |
| S. 1393 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National
School Lunch Act to reauthorize and expand the fruit and vegetable pilot
program |
July 10, 2003 |
| S. 1406 - Amends the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to permit the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency to register a Canadian pesticide |
July 15, 2003 |
S. 1407 - Concentrated Livestock Existing
Alongside Nature Act
Regulates concentrated
animal feeding operations for the protection of the environment and public
health, and for other purposes |
July 15, 2003 |
S. 1449 - America's Healthy Forest Restoration
and Research Act
Improves the capacity
of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to prepare
and conduct hazardous fuels reduction projects on National Forest System
land and Bureau of Land Management land that are aimed at protecting communities,
watersheds, and certain other at-risk land from catastrophic wildfire, to
enhance efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and
rangeland health on public and private land, including catastrophic wildfire,
to increase research on forest health and forest-damaging agents, and for
other purposes |
July 23, 2002 |
S. 1453 - Forestry and Community Assistance
Act of 2003
Expedites procedures
for hazardous fuels reduction activities and restoration in ildland fire
prone national forests and for other purposes |
July 24, 2003 |
S. 1454 - National Drought Preparedness Act
of 2003
Establishes a
National Drought Council within the Department of Agriculture, to improve
national drought preparedness, mitigation, and response efforts, and for
other purposes |
July 24, 2003 |
| S. 1499 - Adjusts the boundaries of Green
Mountain National Forest |
July 30, 2003 |
| S. 1537 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture
to convey to the New Hope Cemetery Association certain land in the State
of Arkansas for use as a cemetery |
July 31, 2003 |
| S. 1549 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National
School Lunch Act to phase out reduced price lunches and breakfasts by phasing
in an increase in the income eligibility guidelines for free lunches and
breakfasts |
July 31, 2003 |
S. 1626 - Emergency Agricultural Disaster
Assistance Act of 2003
Provides emergency
disaster assistance to agricultural producers |
September 17, 2003 |
| S. 1644 - Amends the Packers and Stockyards
Act, 1921, to limit the number of packer-owned swine that certain packers
may slaughter in any calendar year |
September 23, 2003 |
S. 1664 - Pesticide Registration Improvement
Act of 2003
Amends the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to provide for the enhanced
review of covered pesticide products, to authorize fees for certain pesticide
products, and to extend and improve the collection of maintenance fees |
September 25, 2003 |
S. 1750 - Better Eating for Better Living
Act of 2003
Amends the Child
Nutrition Act of 1966 and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act
to improve the nutrition and health of children in the United States |
October 16, 2003 |
S. 1755 - Farm-to-Cafeteria Projects Act of
2003
Amends the Richard
B. Russell National School Lunch Act to provide grants to support farm-to-cafeteria
projects |
October 17, 2003 |
| S. 1766 - Amends the Food Security Act of
1985 to prohibit the use of certain conservation funding to provide technical
assistance under the conservation reserve program |
October 21, 2003 |
| S. 1827 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment
Act to remove the requirement that processors be members of an agency administering
a marketing order applicable to pears |
November 5, 2003 |
S. 1829 - Better Eating for Better Living
Act of 2003
Amends the Child
Nutrition Act of 1966 and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act
to improve the nutrition and health of children in the United States |
November 6, 2003 |
S. 1840 - Voluntary Public Access and Wildlife
Habitat Incentive Program Act of 2003
Amends the Food
Security Act of 1985 to encourage owners and operators of privately-held
farm and ranch land to voluntarily make their land available for access by
the public under programs administered by States |
November 7, 2003 |
S. 1858 - National Veterinary Medical Service
Act
Authorizes the
Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a loan repayment program to encourage
the provision of veterinary services in shortage and emergency situations |
November 12, 2003 |
| S. 1877 - Amends the Food Security Act of
1985 to improve the enrollment of cropland into the conservation reserve
program through the farmable wetlands program |
November 18, 2003 |
| S. 1969 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment
Act to add pears and cherries to the list of fruits and vegetables subject
to regulation in a marketing order by grade, size, quality, or maturity,
and for other purposes |
November 25, 2003 |
S. 2007 - BSE and Other Prion
Disease Prevention and Public Health Protection Act
Provides better protection against bovine spongiform encephalopathy and
other prion diseases
|
January 20, 2004
|
S. 2008 - National Farm Animal
Identification and Records Act
Amends the Animal Health Protection Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture
to establish an electronic nationwide livestock identification system, and
for other purposes
|
January 20, 2004
|
S. 2051 - Animal Feed Protection
Act of 2004
Promotes food safety and to protect the animal feed supply from bovine
spongiform encephalopathy
|
February 5, 2004
|
S. 2070 - United States Animal
Identification Plan Implementation Act
Amends the Animal Health Protection Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture
to implement the United States Animal Identification Plan, and for other
purposes
|
February 12, 2004
|
S. 2141 - Farming Flexibility
Act of 2004
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to enhance the
ability to produce fruits and vegetables on soybean base acres
|
February 26, 2004
|
S. 2182 - Amends the Farm Security
and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to permit the planting of chicory on base
acres
|
March 9, 2004
|
S. 2183 - Early Attention To
Nutrition (EATN) Act of 2004
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to create team nutrition networks
to promote the nutritional health of school children
|
March 9, 2004
|
S. 2251 - Amends the Farm Security
and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to increase the loan rate for safflower
|
March 29, 2004
|
S. 2294 - Authorizes the conveyance
of certain Federal land in the State of New Mexico
|
April 7, 2004
|
S. 2342 - Designates additional
National Forest System lands in the State of Virginia as wilderness, to establish
the Seng Mountain and Crawfish Valley Scenic Areas, to provide for the development
of trail plans for the wilderness areas and scenic areas, and for other purposes
|
April 22, 2004
|
S. 2346 - Amends the Animal Welfare
Act to ensure that all dogs and cats used by research facilities are obtained
legally
|
April 26, 2004
|
S. 2352 - Prevents the slaughter
of horses in and from the United States for human consumption by prohibiting
the slaughter of horses for human consumption and by prohibiting the trade
and transport of horseflesh and live horses intended for human consumption,
and for other purposes
|
April 27, 2004
|
S. 2452 - Requires labeling of
raw agricultural forms of ginseng, including the country of harvest, and
for other purposes
|
May 20, 2004
|
S. 2507 - Amends the Richard
B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966
to provide children with increased access to food and nutrition assistance,
to simplify program operations and improve program management, to reauthorize
child nutrition programs, and for other purposes
|
June 7, 2004
|
S. 2525 - Establishes regional
dairy marketing areas to stabilize the price of milk and support the income
of dairy producers
|
June 16, 2004
|
S. 2546 - Amends the Federal
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require premarket consultation and approval
with respect to genetically engineered foods, and for other purposes
|
June 17, 2004
|
S. 2565 - Amends the Agriculture
Adjustment Act to convert the dairy forward pricing program into a permanent
program of the Department of Agriculture
|
June 23, 2004
|
S. 2575 - Directs the Secretary
of Agriculture to conduct research, monitoring, management, treatment, and
outreach activities relating to sudden oak death syndrome and to convene
regular meetings of, or conduct regular consultations with, Federal, State,
tribal, and local government officials to provide recommendations on how
to carry out those activities
|
June 24, 2004
|
S. 2583 - Promotes the use of
anaerobic digesters by agricultural producers and rural small businesses
to produce renewable energy and improve environmental quality
|
June 24, 2004
|
S. 2592 - Provides crop and livestock
disaster assistance
|
June 24, 2004
|
S. 2609 - Amends the Farm Security
and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend and improve national dairy market
loss payments
|
July 6, 2004
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