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United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1979
Amends the Agriculture Act of 1949 to extend from March 31, 1979, through September 30, 1981, the price support of milk at not less than 80 percent parity.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1979
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $2,816,502 for fiscal year 1979 to the Secretary of Agriculture for purposes of carrying out title III of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (Federal-State cooperation in meat inspection).
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1979
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to authorize the use of food coupons for the purchase of meals in restaurants by members of households composed entirely of persons who are 60 years of age or over or who receive supplemental security income benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1979
Designates the year 1979 as the "Food for Peace Year" to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the enactment of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1979
Repeals the statutory authority to impose import quotas on meat from cattle, goats, and sheep which is fresh, chilled, or frozen.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1979
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President work towards convening a negotiating conference of wheat exporting nations.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1979
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to subject imported papayas to the same regulation as to grade, size, quality, or maturity as domestically produced papayas, whenever domestic papayas are made subject to a marketing order regulating such items.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1979
Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1979 - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to increase the capital stock of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation from $200,000,000 to $500,000,000. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to cancel, without consideration, receipts for payments for or on account of the stock of the Corporation outstanding on the date of enactment of this Act, and states that such receipts shall cease to be liabilities of the Corporation. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to appoint two policyholding active farmers, from different geographic areas of the United States, who are not otherwise employed by the Federal Government, to the Corporation's Board of Directors. Increases the maximum compensation of Board members not otherwise employed by the Government to no greater than the daily rate for GS-18. Removes State court jurisdiction and grants exclusive jurisdiction to Federal district courts of all suits brought by or against the Corporation. Authorizes the Corporation to conduct pilot projects relating to specified agriculture-related risks and losses. Authorizes the Board of Directors to use private insurance companies in the administration of the Federal crop insurance program. Requires the Corporation: (1) to offer other levels of yield coverage, other than the standard one, to be selected at the option of each producer; and (2) to offer insurance coverages to individual farmers based on the actual production history for the farm. Refuses coverage of losses due to the failure of the producer to follow approved conservation practices. Requires the Corporation to pay 30 percent of each producer's premium, as calculated on any coverage up to a maximum of 65 percent of the recorded or appraised average yield. Repeals: (1) the authority of the Secretary to appoint advisory committees; and (2) the requirement that the Corporation post a list of indemnities paid for farm losses at each county courthouse. Authorizes the Corporation to: (1) reinsure insurers, including private insurance companies or pools of such companies, and any State, territorial, or local governmental entity, which insure producers of any agricultural commodity under an acceptable plan; and (2) offer separate protection against specific risks such as prevented planting, wildlife depredation, tree damage and disease, and insect infestation. Removes the $12,000,000 ceiling on annual appropriations. Grants the Corporation discretionary emergency borrowing authority. Expands crop insurance coverage to include tomatoes, grain sorghum, sunflowers, raisins, oranges, sweet corn, dry peas, freezing and canning peas, forage, apples, grapes, potatoes, and excluding livestock and stored grain. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to extend to the 1980 and 1981 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice the farm and prevented planting disaster payment programs effective for the 1978 and 1979 crops. Denies eligibility for such payments to anyone in any county in which Federal crop insurance is generally offered for the agricultural commodity concerned.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1979
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to entitle households composed entirely of persons who are age 60 or older, or who receive supplemental security income benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act, to a medical expense deduction in the computation of household income which is equal to the actual cost of medical expenses. Removes the $75 limit on the excess shelter expense deduction for such households.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1979
Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1979 - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to increase the capital stock of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation from $200,000,000 to $500,000,000. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to cancel, without consideration, receipts for payments for or on account of the stock of the Corporation outstanding on the date of enactment of this Act. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to appoint three active farmers, who are not otherwise employed by the Federal Government, to the Corporation's Board of Directors. Increases the maximum compensation of Board members not otherwise employed by the Government to no greater than the daily rate for GS-18. Removes State court jurisdiction and grants exclusive jurisdiction to Federal district courts of all suits brought by or against the Corporation, and states that all suits against the Corporation shall be tried by the court without a jury. Authorizes the Board of Directors to contract with private companies in the administration of the Federal crop insurance program. Eliminates the limitation of reinsurance to 20 selected counties. Requires the Corporation to offer lesser levels of yield coverage than the standard 75 percent coverage, at the producer's option. States that any insurance so offered shall make available coverage (per unit of production insured) equal, as close as feasible, to the highest of the: (1) target price of the commodity involved; (2) the loan rate for it under a Federal price support program; or (3) the projected market price. Excludes from coverage losses due to failure of a producer to reseed to an approved substitute crop in areas where it is customary to so reseed. Requires the Federal Government to pay 20 percent of each producer's calculated premium. Repeals: (1) the authority of the Secretary to appoint advisory committees; and (2) the requirement that the Corporation post a list of indemnities paid for farm losses at each county courthouse. Authorizes the Corporation to: (1) reinsure private insurance companies, groups or pools of such companies, or governmental entities that insure producers of any agricultural commodity under an acceptable contract (with the Federal Government paying 20 percent of every premium so reinsured); and (2) offer specific risk protection programs including prevented planting, wildlife depredation, tree damage and disease, and insect infestation. Requires insurance on yields of timber and forests to include appreciation (including interest charges) as an insurable cost of production in calculating indemnities and premiums. Grants the Corporation discretionary emergency borrowing authority. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to extend to the 1980 and 1981 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice the farm and prevented planting disaster payment programs. Denies eligibility for such payments to anyone in any county in which federal crop insurance is generally offered for the agricultural commodity concerned.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1979
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require labeling as "imported" any food product manufactured or produced in whole or in part outside the United States, including the percentage of its ingredients so produced and the place where they were produced.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1979
Food Stamp Act Amendment of 1979 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase the authorized appropriations for the food stamp program for fiscal year 1979 from $6,158,900,000 to $6,808,900,000.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1979
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to create a liability to the United States in any individual receiving food coupons during any year whose adjusted gross income for such year exceeds the exempt amount, that is, an amount equal to twice the nonfarm income poverty guidelines for a household consisting of such individual, his spouse, and any dependent for whom he may claim a federal income tax deduction. Sets the amount of such liability at the lesser of: (1) the value of the coupons received by such individual during the year; or (2) the excess of the adjusted gross income over the exempt amount. Requires payment of such liability on April 15 of the succeeding year unless the time for payment is extended for reasons of undue hardship or until such individual leaves the household, if he is not the person maintaining it. Treats the individual maintaining the household as receiving all of the coupons received by such household. Treats both spouses as one individual. Prescribes a procedure for notifying a recipient of his liability.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1979
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, whenever it is necessary to reduce food stamp allotments to comply with appropriation requirements, to ensure that such reductions reflect the ratio of household income to the income standards of eligibility for households of equal size prescribed by such Act. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe: (1) special provisions applicable to persons 60 years of age or over, and handicapped or disabled persons; and (2) minimum allotments after any reductions. Requires the Secretary to provide the appropriate congressional committees with a statement setting forth the basis of his belief and a description of the manner in which allotments will be reduced whenever he has reason to believe such reductions will be necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949: (1) to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from providing for the redemption of stored wheat and feed grains loans unless the market price for such commodities is not less than 80 percent of parity; (2) to prohibit the Secretary from calling such loans unless the market price for wheat and feed grains is at least 85 percent of parity; and (3) to prohibit the Commodity Credit Corporation from selling its stocks of wheat and feed grains for less than 100 percent of parity. Sets the crop production loan rate for the 1979 crops of: (1) upland cotton at 55 cents per pound; (2) wheat at $2.57 per bushel; (3) corn at $2.19 per bushel; (4) grain sorghum at $3.71 per hundredweight; and (5) peanuts at $459 per ton. Sets the established prices for the 1979 crops of: (1) upland cotton at 61.74 cents per pound; (2) wheat at $3.64 per bushel; (3) corn at $2.35 per bushel; and (4) grain sorghum at $4.39 per bushel. States that the established prices for subsequent crops of such commodities shall be determined without reference to the established prices of the 1979 crops. Directs the Secretary to require a 30 percent acreage set-aside as a condition of eligibility for cotton and feed grain price supports.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1979
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to execute a quitclaim deed conveying and releasing to the State Superintendent of Education of the State of South Carolina rights retained by the United States to certain land in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1979
Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide up to $180,000,000 in guaranteed loans for additional pilot projects (already four are mandated) for the production of industrial hydrocarbons and alcohols from agricultural commodities and forest products.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide that, if it is determined that planting of an acreage of upland cotton was prevented and that a nonconserving crop was planted, the prevented planting payment shall be the amount by which the sum calculated according to the present formula exceeds the market value of the nonconserving crop harvested from such acreage, thus reducing the Government's payment rate.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1979
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to regulate the exportation and transportation of animal semen in order to suppress and extirpate contagious animal diseases.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1979
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to allow, for households containing one or more members 60 years of age or older, an excess medical deduction for the portion of the actual cost of allowable specified medical costs in excess of $35 a month, adjustable semiannually to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1979
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to exempt from pre-slaughter animal examination and post mortem carcass inspection requirements all meat food products processed by a federally inspected establishment and derived from meat which has been slaughtered or processed at a State-inspected establishment in a State whose meat inspection requirements have been determined by the Secretary to be at least equal to the Federal requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1979
Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to increase from four to 16 the number of pilot projects mandated for the production and marketing of industrial hydrocarbons and alcohols from agricultural commodities and forest products.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1979
Establishes a National Agricultural Cost of Production Board to review, and advise the Secretary of Agriculture concerning, the adequacy and accuracy of the cost-of-production formulas used by the Department of Agriculture in connection with the administration of its price support programs.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish the rate of deficiency payments, under the price support program for feed grains, on a varying State by State basis instead of the current uniform national basis.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1979
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, whenever during a crop year there is a loan program for dried corn or grain sorghums under the Agriculture Act of 1949, to carry out a comparable loan program for high moisture corn or grain sorghums under such Act. Stipulates that, during any such loan program, suitable high moisture storage facilities for corn or grain sorghums shall include, but not be limited to, conventional or oxygen-limiting tower silos, or, in the case of acid-treated corn or grain sorghums, conventional tower or bunker silos.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1979
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to remove the $75 limit on the excess shelter expense deduction in the computation of household income for households composed entirely of persons who are age 62 or older, or who receive supplemental security income benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act. Entitles such households to a medical expense deduction to the extent that the monthly amount expended by any such household for medical or dental care exceeds the amount of the standard deduction in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1979
Declares that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the transfer of the Forest Service and the Farmers Home Administration business and industry programs from the Department of Agriculture is unacceptable, and that any reorganization proposal which would diminish the Department's resources is unacceptable.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1979
Affirms that farmer cooperatives are a vital and necessary element in maintaining and promoting the family farm system of food production. States that the Department of Agriculture and all appropriate budget appropriation review groups should recognize the need to reinforce and expand programs of cooperative research, service, education, and other cooperative assistance. Declares that the Department should: (1) establish an Office of Farmer Cooperatives as an independent agency within the Department to coordinate such programs; and (2) take other aggressive leadership toward expanding resources for cooperative work.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1979
Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to extend the period wherein the Secretary of Agriculture may enter into contracts for the conservation of soil in the Great Plains conservation program. Repeals funding limitations placed upon such program.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1979
Producer Elected Farm Policy Advisory Board Act of 1979 - Establishes a Producer Elected Farm Policy Advisory Board to advise the Secretary of Agriculture on issues affecting the production, marketing, transportation, and export of agricultural commodities, and other issues relating to Department of Agriculture policies and programs. Specifies ten regions of the United States from which the 30 members of the Board, all producers of one or more agricultural commodities, shall be elected by members of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation county committees, from among persons nominated by each Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation district. Sets a Board member's term of office at three years, and limits him to not more than two such terms.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1979
National Agricultural Bargaining Act of 1979 - Repeals the Agricultural Fair Practices Act of 1967 and establishes an agricultural bargaining policy substantially identical but expanded. Enumerates the unfair practices a handler of agricultural products is forbidden to commit under existing law, and adds a list of unfair practices an association of producers may not commit, including: (1) refusal to bargain in good faith with a handler over prices, terms of sale, and compensation for products produced under contract; (2) coercing or intimidating a handler to breach or terminate marketing contracts and association membership agreements; (3) circulating false reports about an association's or handler's finances, management, or activities; and (4) conspiracy to commit an unfair practice. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to accredit an association for bargaining with respect to the specified agricultural products of its members with handlers designated individually or by production or marketing area or by some other appropriate classification. Defines good faith bargaining for the purposes of this Act and specifies the conditions and procedure for the accreditation of producer associations. Requires each accredited association to submit an annual report to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to notify any association of the ways in which he believes it has ceased to maintain accreditation standards, and to allow it a reasonable time to answer or correct the deficiencies noted. Provides a procedure for revocation of accreditation. Provides for the assignment of association dues and fees. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide mediation services when bargaining between a handler and an association reaches an impasse; and (2) establish a procedure for compulsory and binding arbitration whenever such an impasse will result in a serious interruption in the flow of products to consumers, or will cause substantial economic hardship to the producers or handlers involved in the bargaining. Provides an administrative procedure for processing charges of unfair practices. Authorizes the Secretary to institute inquiries on his own motion, and to commence a civil action for injunctive and other relief. Specifies the Secretary's investigative powers. Establishes civil and criminal penalties for the violation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1979
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1937 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to issue marketing orders respecting walnut development projects which provide: (1) for any form of marketing promotion including paid advertising; and (2) for crediting the pro rata expense assessment obligations of a handler with all or any portion of his direct expenditures for such promotion.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1979
Repeals the statutory authority to impose import quotas on meat from cattle, goats, and sheep which is fresh, chilled, or frozen.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1979
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to authorize a reduction in the amount of any penalty imposed for a particular violation of a marketing quota for peanuts, if such violation was unintentional or unknowing, and a reduction of such penalty would not impair the effective operation of the peanut price support program.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1979
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to specify the maximum aggregate principal amounts for insured and guaranteed real estate, operating, and emergency loans under the Agriculture Credit Insurance Fund and water sewer facility, industrial development, and community facility loans under the Rural Development Insurance Fund for each of the fiscal years 1980, 1981, and 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1979
Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to repeal the termination date and funding limitations placed on the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into contracts with landowners for soil conservation in the Great Plains conservation program.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1979
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to prohibit participation by any farmer in the price support programs for the 1980 and 1981 crops of feed grains and wheat unless the Secretary of Agriculture receives a written certification from the local conservation district that such farmer is, with respect to the crop in question, implementing a plan for conservation and sustained use of the soil and water on such farm which meets established minimum standards. Directs the Secretary through the Soil Conservation Service to enter into written agreements with conservation districts, State soil and water conservation agencies, or State water quality agencies to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1979
Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, to establish a national three-year pilot program for insuring farmers and ranchers who raise beef and dairy cattle against losses incurred between January 1, 1980 and December 31, 1983, as result of brucellosis.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1979
Declares the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Agriculture should: (1) assess and report to the Committee on Agriculture about the whey supply situation; and (2) increase research programs to utilize whey more efficiently for the mutual benefit of both producers and consumers.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1979
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to specify the maximum aggregate principal amounts for insured and guaranteed real estate, operating, and emergency insured and guaranteed loans under the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund and water and sewer facility, industrial development, and community facility loans under the Rural Development Insurance Fund for each of the fiscal years 1980, 1981, and 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1979
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to authorize a waiver or reduction in the amount of any penalty imposed for a particular violation of a marketing quota for the 1978 through 1981 crops of peanuts, if such violation was unintentional or inadvertent.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1979
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, whenever it is necessary to reduce food stamp allotments to comply with appropriation requirements, to ensure that such reductions reflect the ratio of household income to the income standards of eligibility for households of equal size prescribed by such Act. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe: (1) special provisions applicable to persons 60 years of age or over and handicapped or disabled persons; and (2) minimum allotments after any reductions. Requires the Secretary to provide the appropriate congressional committees with a statement setting forth the basis of his belief and a description of the manner in which allotments will be reduced whenever he has reason to believe such reductions will be necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1979
Designates the year 1979 as the "Food for Peace Year" to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the enactment of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1979
Rural Development Policy Act of 1979 - Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to establish the Working Group for Rural Development, chaired by the Secretary of Agriculture, and composed of Assistant Secretary-level representatives of specified departments and agencies, which shall develop and recommend comprehensive strategies to: (1) maximize the effectiveness, increase the responsiveness, and improve the delivery of Federal programs to rural areas; (2) increase coordination of such programs with the development needs, objectives, and resources of local communities, substate areas, states, and multistate regions; and (3) achieve the most effective combinations of Federal, State, and local resources to meet the needs of rural areas for orderly growth and development. Authorizes the Working Group to hold open hearings to receive suggestions and recommendations from the public. Permits the Secretary to assist any member of the Group in establishing and maintaining an office of rural development within the Federal department or agency which such member represents, and to defray a portion of the costs of such an office, under certain conditions. Requires an annual report to Congress on the implementation of the Working Group's strategies. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to: (1) increase from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000 the maximum annual aggregate amount of rural development grants; and (2) rename the Farmers Home Administration the Farmers Home and Rural Development Administration. Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to: (1) extend the authorization for the rural development and small farm research and extension programs through fiscal year 1981; and (2) include Guam and the Virgin Islands in the coverage of such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1979
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to authorize a reduction in the amount of any penalty imposed for a particular violation of a marketing quota for peanuts, if such violation was unintentional or unknowing, and a reduction of such penalty would not impair the effective operation of the peanut price support program.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1979
Food Security Act of 1979 - Declares it to be the policy of the United States to develop a wheat reserve solely to provide for emergency food needs in developing countries. Directs the President to establish a reserve stock of wheat of up to 4,000,000 metric tons. Authorizes the President to release such stocks on a donation or concessional sale basis to provide emergency food assistance to developing countries at any time that the domestic supply of wheat in the United States is so limited that quantities cannot be made available except for urgent humanitarian purposes. Exempts such reserve stock from limitations which may be imposed pursuant to the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and the Export Administration Act of 1969.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1979
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require nutritional labeling on all packaged food, including meat products. Requires such labeling to identify per serving: (1) the caloric content; (2) the protein, carbohydrate, and fat content; (3) the portion of the United States recommended daily allowance of proteins, vitamins, and minerals; and (4) the ratio of the caloric content to the nutrition content. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to promulgate regulations to carry out this Act within one year following enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1979
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to exempt from pre-slaughter animal examination and post mortem carcass inspection requirements all meat food products processed by a federally inspected establishment and derived from meat which has been slaughtered or processed at a State-inspected establishment in a State whose meat inspection requirements have been determined by the Secretary to be at least equal to the Federal requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1979
Food Security Act of 1979 - Declares it to be the policy of the United States to develop a wheat reserve solely to provide for emergency food needs in developing countries. Directs the President to establish a reserve stock of wheat of up to 4,000,000 metric tons. Authorizes the President to release such stocks on a donation or concessional sale basis to provide emergency food assistance to developing countries at any time that the domestic supply of wheat in the United States is so limited that quantities cannot be made available except for urgent humanitarian purposes. Exempts such reserve stock from limitations which may be imposed pursuant to the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and the Export Administration Act of 1969.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1979
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to allow the use, in meat, poultry, or other food products, of a food additive for dietary management of health disorders or disease, even though such additive is found to induce cancer in animals, if the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare or, where appropriate, the Secretary of Agriculture determines the benefits to human health of such use outweigh the risks. Directs the Secretary to take into account in making such a determination: (1) all scientific data and information on the additive; (2) the scientific validity and analysis of the tests of such additive; and (3) current knowledge about the reliability of predicting cancer in humans from use of an additive found to induce cancer in animals.