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United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Dairy Production Price Support Adjustment Act of 1985 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend from July 1 to October 1, 1985, the date on which the Secretary of Agriculture may adjust milk price support levels.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
National Dairy Research Institute Act of 1985 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to reduce the authorized April 1, 1985, milk price support reduction from 50 cents per hundredweight to 35 cents per hundredweight. States that the Secretary of Agriculture may announce a further 15 cents per hundredweight reduction to take effect on October 1, 1985. Requires the Secretary to prescribe a 15 cents per hundredweight assessment through the end of FY 1985 if such April 1, 1985, price support reduction is imposed. Designates such funds for the National Dairy Research Endowment Institute created by this Act. Amends the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 to create the National Dairy Research Endowment Institute to provide a permanent funding system for market expansion research.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a combined acreage limitation and land diversion program for the 1985 feed grain crop. Makes compliance with such provisions a condition of eligibility for 1985 feed grain price support benefits. Sets the diversion payment rate for corn at $1.50 per bushel.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to require certain exporters of wheat, corn, or soybeans to report specified export sales information (commodity identity and quantity, sales date and destination) to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Requires the Commission to: (1) make such information available to the public; and (2) implement this Act within 90 days. Directs the Commission to revoke the registration (for at least 12 months) of any broker violating these provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to prohibit insider trading in futures contracts.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to require a favorable producer referendum as a condition of designation of a board of trade as a cattle or beef parts and products contract market.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Erosion Reduction Act of 1985 - Makes persons who cultivate crops on highly erodible land ineligible for price supports, crop insurance, and other specified agricultural loans. Provides exceptions for: (1) crops produced using approved conservation methods; and (2) certain previously cultivated land. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use the agricultural stabilization and conservation committees to help administer this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to treat elderly or disabled individuals living in certain types of group-living arrangements as individual households.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Revises the definition of "food" under the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase from 16 to 25 the number of blind and disabled persons receiving social security benefits who may reside in a group-living arrangement for purposes of food stamp eligibility.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Milk Producers Prompt Payment Act of 1985 - Provides that all milk purchased from a U.S. producer by a handler in a cash sale, and all inventories and proceeds and related products, shall be held by the handler in trust for the producer until the producer receives full payment. Exempts handlers whose total annual milk purchases do not exceed $500,000. Requires a handler to pay the full cash price to the producer within one day of receiving the milk, unless agreed otherwise. Grants producers a cause of action in U.S. district courts for handler trust or payment violations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
School Lunch and Child Nutrition Amendments of 1985 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and the National School Lunch Act to authorize FY 1985 through 1988 appropriations for: (1) the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC); (2) State administrative expenses; (3) the nutrition education training (NET) program; (4) the childrens' summer food service program; and (5) the commodity distribution program. Increases NET authorizations. Reduces the student cost of a reduced price lunch from 40 cents to 25 cents and of a reduced price breakfast from 30 cents to 15 cents. Increases reduced meal income eligibility limits from 185 percent to 195 percent of the poverty level. Provides an additional six cents per breakfast to increase the nutritional quality of such program. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate related nutritional improvement regulations. Extends the lunch program "offer versus serve" provision to the breakfast program. Permits a child to refuse one breakfast item if such refusal option is permitted by the local school food authority. Raises the program tuition limit under such Act for private schools from $1,500 to $2,500. Requires annual inflation adjustments. Increases the number of reimbursable meals and snacks under the child care food program. Excludes certain medical expenses from household income for program eligibility purposes. Eliminates the requirement that free meal eligibility be the same as that required for food stamp eligibility. Prohibits the Secretary from requiring school lunch program income verification unless the direct cost of such verification is appropriated. Makes kindergartens in specified schools eligible for the special milk program. Establishes a tiered-payment system for the child care food program. Obligates specified food service equipment appropriations for low-income area schools. States that school food facilities and personnel may be used for nonprofit nutrition programs for the elderly. Prohibits the Secretary, through FY 1986, from reducing child nutrition benefit eligibility unless legislatively directed. Qualifies children participating in the food stamp or aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) programs for free breakfasts and lunches. Makes specified nonprofit private sponsors eligible for the summer feeding program. Increases FY 1984 WIC authorizations. Extends administrative fund allocation provisions through 1988. Directs the Secretary to apportion funds so as to insure that at least 70 percent of each fiscal year's amounts have been obligated or used by the beginning of such year's fourth quarter. Provides that such requirement shall not apply to supplemental appropriations enacted after January 1 of a fiscal year or to any reallocated funds. Prohibits States from using more than two and one-half percent of a current fiscal year's WIC appropriations for a preceding year's expenditures. Permits administrative funds to be used for technical assistance to improve State administrative systems. Includes AFDC among the programs to be coordinated with the child nutrition programs. Provides for a reduction in program paperwork. Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of the feasibility of a universal school lunch program; and (2) report to the Congress by January 1, 1988. Extends, subject to fund availability, the alternative (cash) assistance school lunch pilot study through the school year ending June 30, 1986. Requires the Secretary, subject to fund availability and upon request, to provide financial assistance to participating school districts that sustained losses due to the methodology change for the school year ending June 30, 1983. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes. Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of the State administrative expense allocation formula and procedures, including the merits of a State matching requirement; and (2) report to the Congress by January 31, 1986. Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of the effect on families of the child nutrition programs authorized under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966; and (2) report to the Congress by January 1, 1987. Prohibits a contract between a school food authority and a food service company to provide a la carte food service unless such company provides free and reduced price meals to eligible children.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to require the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to offer prevented planting crop insurance.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Milk Diversion Program Extension Act of 1985 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend the 50-cent milk price support reduction through the end of FY 1985. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to offer milk diversion program participants a six-month extension through the end of FY 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to deem misbranded any imported meat that is not labeled imported. Requires restaurants and other eating establishments that sell a significant amount of imported meat food products to inform their customers of such fact. Sets forth penalties for noncompliance. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to issue within 30 days a proposed rule defining what constitutes a significant amount of imported meat. Provides for veto of any proposed rule by either congressional agricultural committee within 60 days after issuance. Requires the Secretary to issue a revised rule within 30 days after such a disapproval.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Requires the interest rate charged by the Farmers Home Administration to housing, farm, water and waste disposal, and community facility borrowers to be the lower of the rates in effect at either the time of loan approval or loan closing. Requires the amount of grant funds associated with such loans to be based on the interest rate in effect at the time of loan approval.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Requests the President to direct the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Treasury to jointly: (1) conduct a study to determine the feasibility of raising agricultural loan funds through the issuance of tax-exempt bonds and exemption of interest paid on cash deposits from Federal income tax; and (2) report to the appropriate congressional committees by March 1, 1985.