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Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3141-3142) Bill TextA bill to restore import and entry agricultural inspection functions to the Department of Agriculture. 3/14/2007--Introduced. Amends the Homeland Security Act to repeal the transfer of agricultural import and entry inspection functions from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service the international agricultural inspection program to carry out import and entry agricultural inspections.
Latest Action: 03/21/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Bill TextA bill to amend the Plant Protection Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into cooperative agreements with States to augment the efforts of the States to conduct early detection and surveillance to prevent the establishment or spread of plant pests that endanger agriculture, the environment, and the economy of the United States, and for other purposes. 3/21/2007--Introduced. Early Plant Pest Detection and Surveillance Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a cooperative agreement with any state department of agriculture that agrees to conduct early plant pest detection surveillance activities, including inspection and surveillance of domestic plant shipments between a state and other states.
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Latest Action: 04/19/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4754) Bill TextA bill to ensure an abundant and affordable supply of highly nutritious fruits, vegetables, and other specialty crops for American consumers and international markets by enhancing the competitiveness of United States-grown specialty crops. 4/19/2007--Introduced. Specialty Crops Competition Act of 2007 - Defines "specialty crop" as fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, nursery crops, floriculture, and horticulture. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to provide for marketing order specialty crop food safety programs. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) carry out fruit and vegetable market news activities; (2) make grants to states to enhance specialty crop competitiveness; (3) prepare a foreign market access strategy plan; (4) establish in the Department of Agriculture an office for the protection of intellectual property rights in plants and plant-derived materials; (5) make grants for market analysis of antidumping and countervailing duty [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 11/07/2007 - Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans Discharged. Bill TextTo amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to extend its protections to plants illegally harvested outside of the United States, and for other purposes. 3/13/2007--Introduced. Legal Timber Protection Act - Amends the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to make it unlawful for any person to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, purchase in interstate or foreign commerce, or possess any plant taken (i.e., captured, killed, harvested, or collected) in a foreign country that is: (1) taken, transported, or sold in violation of any law that applies in the place (including a park, forest reserve, or other officially protected area) where the harvest, taking, transport, or sale occurs; (2) taken without paying required royalties, taxes, or stumpage fees; (3) exported or transhipped in violation of any legal limitation; (4) taken, exported, or transhipped in violation of any international law, treaty, or international agreement, or (5) without any official documentation of compliance [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 07/24/2007 - Committee on Appropriations. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Kohl. With written report No. 110-134. Bill TextAn original bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes. 7/24/2007--Reported to Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates FY2008 funds for the following Department of Agriculture (Department) programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary); (2) executive operations; (3) National Appeals Division; (4) Office of Budget and Program Analysis; (5) Homeland Security Staff; (6) Office of the Chief Information Officer; (7) Office of the Chief Financial Officer; (8) Office [...] show full description
Latest Action: 08/01/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10621-10622) Bill TextA bill to amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prevent illegal logging practices, and for other purposes. 8/1/2007--Introduced. Combat Illegal Logging Act of 2007 - Amends the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to redefine the term "plant" to include products of plants and to exclude any common food crop or cultivar that is a species not listed: (1) in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora; or (2) as an endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Redefines the term "take" to include harvesting, cutting, logging, or removing a plant.Makes it unlawful to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, possess, or purchase in interstate or foreign commerce plants: (1) taken, transported, possessed, or sold in violation of specified foreign or state law; (2) taken, transported, or exported without the payment of royalties, taxes, or stumpage fees required by foreign or state [...] show full description
Latest Action: 08/02/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10799-10801) Bill TextA bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to provide loans to certain organizations in certain States to address habitats and ecosystems and to address and prevent invasive species. 8/2/2007--Introduced. 100th Meridian Invasive Species State Revolving Loan Fund - Establishes the 100th Meridian Invasive Species Revolving Fund to provide loans to governors of eligible states for distribution to qualified organizations to prevent and remediate the impacts of invasive species on habitats and ecosystems. Requires the submission of specified reports.
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Latest Action: 11/02/2007 - Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Harkin. With written report No. 110-220. Additional views filed. Bill TextAn original bill to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes. 11/2/2007--Introduced. Food and Energy Security Act of 2007 - Revises agricultural and related programs and provisions respecting: (1) producer income; (2) conservation; (3) trade; (4) nutrition; (5) credit; (6) rural development and investment; (7) research and related matters; (8) forestry; (9) energy; (10) livestock marketing; and (11) agricultural security.
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Latest Action: 05/22/2008 - Veto message received in Senate. Ordered held at the desk. Bill TextTo provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes. 5/22/2007--Introduced. Farm Bill Extension Act of 2007 - Extends and revises agricultural and related programs respecting: (1) commodities; (2) sugar; (3) dairy; (4) conservation; (5) exports and trade assistance; (6) food stamps and nutrition; (7) agricultural credit; (8) rural development; (9) rural electrification; (10) agricultural research; (11) forestry; (12) energy; (13) specialty crops; and (14) livestock.
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Latest Action: 06/26/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. Bill TextTo restore import and entry agricultural inspection functions to the Department of Agriculture. 6/7/2007--Introduced. Agricultural Border Safeguard Protection Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act to repeal the transfer of agricultural import and entry inspection functions from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) develop agricultural import and entry procedures for inspections, monitoring, and auditing; (2) ensure that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has an electronic system with real-time tracking capability for monitoring, tracking, and reporting inspection activities; (3) develop and maintain an integrated, real-time communication system with respect to import and entry agricultural inspections to alert state agriculture departments about significant Service findings; and (4) establish the International Trade Inspection Advisory Committee.
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Also tagged in: Acreage allotments, Administrative procedure, Administrative remedies, Aged, Agricultural conservation, Agricultural cooperatives, Agricultural credit, Agricultural estimating and reporting, Agricultural labor, Agricultural pollution, Agricultural prices, Agricultural research, Agricultural subsidies, Agriculture, Agriculture in foreign trade, Alaska, Alcohol as fuel, Ammonia, Animal diseases, Animals, Aquifers, Arid regions, Biomass energy, Biotechnology, Block grants, Broadband, Budgets, Business, Buy American, Chesapeake Bay, Child labor, Child nutrition, Children, Civil liberties, Civil rights, Civil rights enforcement, Collection of accounts, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Conservation easements, Consumer education, Consumers, Contracts, Cotton, Crop insurance, Customs unions, Dairy industry, Dairy products, Dams, Day care, Department of Agriculture, Developing countries, Disabled, Disaster relief, Discrimination, Dispute settlement, Droughts, Drug abuse, Economic policy, Electric power production, Electric power transmission, Electrification, Emergency management, Energy, Energy crops, Energy demand, Energy efficiency, Energy research, Environmental protection, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Export finance, Farm income, Farm lands, Farmers, Federal aid to health facilities, Federally-guaranteed loans, Feed grains, Fertilizers, Finance, Floods, Food, Food relief, Food safety, Food stamps, Forced labor, Foreclosure, Foreign policy, Foreign trade promotion, Forest conservation, Foundations, Fraud, Free trade, Fruit, Germplasm resources, Goats, Government information, Government lending, Government publicity, Governmental investigations, Grading (Agricultural products), Grassland ecology, Grazing, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Groundwater, Habitat conservation, Hawaiians, Health education, Higher education, Historic sites, Honey, Horticulture, Hospitals, Human rights, Hunger, Identification devices, Income, Indian education, Indians, Indigenous peoples, Infrastructure, Insurance premiums, International affairs, Internet, Job training, Labeling, Labor, Labor supply, Lakes, Landscape protection, Latin America, Law, Limitation of actions, Livestock, Marketing of farm produce, Marketing orders, Meat inspection, Methamphetamine, Mexico, Migrant labor, Milk, Minorities, Natural resources, Non-native species, Nongovernmental organizations, Nutrition, Organic farming, Parasitic diseases, Peanuts, Performance measurement, Pest control, Plant breeding, Plant diseases, Potatoes, Poultry, Propane, Puerto Rico, Rabies, Railroad freight operations, Range management, Reinsurance, Research and development, Restoration ecology, Rice, Right of privacy, Rural affairs, Rural economic development, Rural health, Sales tax, Saline waters, Scholarships, Science policy, Seasonal labor, Seeds, Sheep, Small business, Social services, Soil conservation, Soil erosion, State and local government, Storage, Sugar, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication, Territories (U.S.), Texas, Trade, Trade agreements, Transportation, Unemployment, Vegetables, Veterinary medicine, Waste water treatment, Water conservation, Water pollution, Water pollution control, Water resources, Water supply, Watersheds, Welfare, Welfare eligibility, Wells, Wetlands, Wheat, Working poor
Latest Action: 11/02/2007 - Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Harkin. With written report No. 110-220. Additional views filed. Bill TextAn original bill to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes. 11/2/2007--Introduced. Food and Energy Security Act of 2007 - Revises agricultural and related programs and provisions respecting: (1) producer income; (2) conservation; (3) trade; (4) nutrition; (5) credit; (6) rural development and investment; (7) research and related matters; (8) forestry; (9) energy; (10) livestock marketing; and (11) agricultural security.
Latest Action: 08/02/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10799-10801) Bill TextA bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to provide loans to certain organizations in certain States to address habitats and ecosystems and to address and prevent invasive species. 8/2/2007--Introduced. 100th Meridian Invasive Species State Revolving Loan Fund - Establishes the 100th Meridian Invasive Species Revolving Fund to provide loans to governors of eligible states for distribution to qualified organizations to prevent and remediate the impacts of invasive species on habitats and ecosystems. Requires the submission of specified reports.
Latest Action: 08/01/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10621-10622) Bill TextA bill to amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prevent illegal logging practices, and for other purposes. 8/1/2007--Introduced. Combat Illegal Logging Act of 2007 - Amends the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to redefine the term "plant" to include products of plants and to exclude any common food crop or cultivar that is a species not listed: (1) in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora; or (2) as an endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Redefines the term "take" to include harvesting, cutting, logging, or removing a plant.Makes it unlawful to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, possess, or purchase in interstate or foreign commerce plants: (1) taken, transported, possessed, or sold in violation of specified foreign or state law; (2) taken, transported, or exported without the payment of royalties, taxes, or stumpage fees required by foreign or state [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 06/26/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. Bill TextTo restore import and entry agricultural inspection functions to the Department of Agriculture. 6/7/2007--Introduced. Agricultural Border Safeguard Protection Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act to repeal the transfer of agricultural import and entry inspection functions from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) develop agricultural import and entry procedures for inspections, monitoring, and auditing; (2) ensure that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has an electronic system with real-time tracking capability for monitoring, tracking, and reporting inspection activities; (3) develop and maintain an integrated, real-time communication system with respect to import and entry agricultural inspections to alert state agriculture departments about significant Service findings; and (4) establish the International Trade Inspection Advisory Committee.
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