A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1986, and for other purposes.

Summary

Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates funds for FY 1986 for the following programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration; (3) standard level user charges; (4) building operations and maintenance for the Washington, D.C., Agriculture building complex; (5) advisory committees; (6) departmental administration; (7) Working Capital Fund; (8) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental and Public Affairs (including public affairs, legislative liaison, and intergovernmental affairs); (9) Office of the Inspector General; (10) Office of the General Counsel; (11) Economic Research Service; (12) Statistical Reporting Service; (13) World Agricultural Outlook Board; (14) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Science and Education; (15) Agricultural Research Service; (16) Cooperative State Research Service; (17) Extension Service; (18) National Agricultural Library; (19) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Marketing and Inspection Services; (20) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (21) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (22) Federal Grain Inspection Service (with limitations on administrative expenses); (23) Agricultural Marketing Service (with limitations on administrative expenses, and including funds for strengthening markets, payments to States, and the Office of Transportation); (24) Packers and Stockyards Administration; (25) Office of the Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs; (26) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service; and (27) Dairy Indemnity Program. Authorizes specified amounts to be transferred from the Commodity Credit Corporation to support the General Sales Manager in expanding commodity sales abroad. Authorizes the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and the Commodity Credit Corporation to make expenditures, within specified limits, to carry out their respective programs. Title II: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for rural development assistance as follows: (1) Office of Rural Development Policy; (2) Farmers Home Administration; (3) Rural Electrification Administration; (4) Soil Conservation Service; (5) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service; and (6) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment. Title III: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services; (2) Food and Nutrition Service, including the food stamp program; and (3) Human Nutrition Information Service. Title IV: International Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Foreign Agricultural Service; (2) Public Law 480 (financing the sale of agricultural commodities for convertible foreign currencies); and (3) the Office of International Cooperation and Development. Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Food and Drug Administration; (2) the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (3) the Farm Credit Administration (with limitations on administrative expenses). Title VI: General Provisions - Limits the expenditure of specified appropriations made by this Act. Prohibits the use of funds for production payments to recipients who harvest marihuana or other prohibited drug-producing plants for illegal use. Limits the amount of transfers to the Working Capital Fund for the purpose of accumulating growth capital for data services and National Finance Center operations. Limits the amounts that may be charged against such Fund for personal compensation. Prohibits the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce any regulation which has been disapproved pursuant to any resolution of disapproval. Provides that the certificates of beneficial ownership sold by the Farmers Home Administration in connection with specified insurance funds shall not be less than 75 percent of the value of loans closed during the fiscal year. Prohibits the use of funds to carry out any activity related to phasing out the Resource Conservation and Development Program. Prohibits the use of funds to prevent or interfere with the right and obligation of the Commodity Credit Corporation to sell surplus agricultural commodities in world trade at competitive prices. Authorizes the provision of specified commodities to individuals in cases of hardship. Prohibits the payment of any funds out of the Treasury to any private individual or corporation in satisfaction of a loan guarantee entered into by a Federal agency or corporation with respect to loans made and credits extended to the Polish People's Republic, unless: (1) the Republic has been declared to be in default of its debt to such individual or corporation; or (2) the President has provided a monthly written report to specified congressional leaders justifying any such payments during the previous month. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to initiate construction on not less than 20 new projects under the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act and not less than five new projects under the Flood Control Act. Prohibits appropriations under any Act from being used to relocate the Hawaii State Office of the Farmers Home Administration from Hilo, Hawaii, to Honolulu, Hawaii. Exempts Department of Agriculture veterinarians from certain personal service contract restrictions. Prohibits employee reductions below specified levels for the Farmers Home Administration, the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, and the Soil Conservation Service. Authorizes funds to be used for a one-year contract which is to be performed in two fiscal years if such contract's total amount is obligated in the same year for which the funds are appropriated. States that appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for which the appropriations were made, unless otherwise provided by law.

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Timeline

1. 19 February 1985

   Introduced

   Rereferred to House Committee on Appropriations.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 19 February 1985

   Committee

   First Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

   Source: Committee

3. 19 February 1985

   Referred

   Referred to Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development and Related Agencies.

   Source: Committee

4. 24 April 1985

   Committee

   Final Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

   Source: Committee

5. 11 July 1985

   Committee

   Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee.

   Source: Committee

6. 11 July 1985

   Committee

   Final Day of Subcommittee Mark-up.

   Source: Committee

7. 18 July 1985

   Calendars

   Placed on Union Calendar No: 141.

   Source: Calendars

8. 18 July 1985

   Reported

   Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 99-211.

   Source: Committee

9. 18 July 1985

   Reported

   Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 99-211.

   Source: Committee

10. 18 July 1985

    Reported

    Ordered to be Reported.

    Source: Committee

11. 18 July 1985

    Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

    Source: Committee

12. 18 July 1985

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    Source: IntroReferral

13. 18 July 1985

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    Source: IntroReferral

14. 23 July 1985

    Reported

    Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.232 Reported to House.

    Source: Floor

15. 24 July 1985

    Vote

    Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 354 - 71 (Record Vote No: 254).

    Source: Floor

16. 24 July 1985

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 354 - 71 (Record Vote No: 254).

    Source: Floor

17. 24 July 1985

    Passed

    House Agreed to Amendments Adopted by the Committee of the Whole.

    Source: Floor

18. 24 July 1985

    Floor

    Called up by House as Privileged Matter.

    Source: Floor

19. 29 July 1985

    Introduced

    Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

    Source: IntroReferral

20. 19 September 1985

    Committee

    Subcommittee on Agriculture and Related Agencies. Approved for full committee consideration with amendments favorably.

    Source: Committee

21. 24 September 1985

    Calendars

    Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 311.

    Source: Calendars

22. 24 September 1985

    Reported

    Committee on Appropriations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.

    Source: Committee

23. 24 September 1985

    Reported

    Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator Cochran with amendments. With written report No. 99-137.

    Source: Committee

24. 15 October 1985

    Floor

    Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.

    Source: Floor

25. 16 October 1985

    ResolvingDifferences

    Senate insists on its amendments, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Cochran; McClure; Andrews; Abdnor; Kasten; Mattingly; Specter; Hatfield; Burdick; Stennis; Chiles; Sasser; Bumpers; Harkin.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

26. 16 October 1985

    Floor

    Considered by Senate.

    Source: Floor

27. 16 October 1985

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 81-14. Record Vote No: 226.

    Source: Floor

28. 9 December 1985

    Passed

    House Agreed to Request for Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Whitten, Traxler, McHugh, Natcher, Akaka, Watkins, Durbin, Smith (IA), Rogers, Smith (NE), Myers (IN), Skeen, Conte.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

29. 9 December 1985

    Passed

    House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

30. 9 December 1985

    Passed

    Resolving differences -- House actions: House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.

    Source: NotUsed

31. 12 December 1985

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference Report 99-439 Filed in House.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

32. 12 December 1985

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference report filed: Conference Report 99-439 Filed in House.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

Votes

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Sponsors

• Rep. Whitten, Jamie L. [D-MS-1] · D · Sponsor
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