United States · Bill · HR
H.R. 3950 (101st)
Food and Agricultural Resources Act of 1990
Introduced
5 February 1990
Last action
4 August 1990 · Floor
Status
Laid on the table. See S. 2830 for further action.
Sponsors
Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15], Rep. Madigan, Edward R. [R-IL-15]
Subjects
Agriculture
Source updated
21 July 2025
Summary
Food and Agricultural Resources Act of 1990 - Title I: Dairy - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend milk price support and price reduction authorities through 1995. Extends authority through 1995 for: (1) the transfer of dairy products to the military and veterans' hospitals; and (2) the dairy indemnity program. Title II: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to extend wool price support authority through 1995. Title III: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend wheat loan rate, target price, disaster payment, acreage limitation, and land diversion authorities through 1995. Title IV: Feed Grains - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend feed grain loan rate, target price, disaster payment, acreage limitation, and land diversion authorities through 1995. Title V: Cotton - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend cotton loan rate, target price, disaster payment, acreage limitation, land diversion, and skiprow authorities through 1995. Title VI: Rice - Amends the Agricultural Act of 149 to extend rice loan rate, target price, disaster payment, acreage limitation, and land diversion authorities through 1995. Title VII: Peanuts - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to extend through the 1995 peanut crop year authorities for suspension of marketing quotas and acreage allotments, national and farm poundage quotas, sale or transfer of farm poundage quotas, marketing penalties, and disposition of additional peanuts. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend peanut price support authority through 1995. Title VIII: Soybeans - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend soybean price support authority through 1995. Title IX: Sugar - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend sugar price support authority through 1995. Title X: General Commodity Provisions - Subtitle A: Miscellaneous Commodity Provisions - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend agricultural payment limitation authority through 1995. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend authorities through 1995 for: (1) deficiency and diversion payments; (2) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) sales price restrictions; (3) supplemental set-aside and acreage limitations; and (4) advance program announcements. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend authorities through 1995 for: (1) disaster payments for peanuts, soybeans, sugar beets, and sugarcane; (2) multiyear set-aside contracts; and (3) normal supply determinations. Amends the Food Security Wheat Reserve Act of 1980 to extend authority for the wheat reserve through 1995. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to extend authority for the National Agricultural Cost of Production Standards Review Board through 1995. Subtitle B: Uniform Base Acreage and Yield Provisions - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish the acreage bases and program yields for the 1991 through 1995 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice. Subtitle C: Honey - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend honey price support authority through 1995. Title XI: Trade - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to extend authorities through 1995 for: (1) local currency sales; (2) private enterprise promotion; and (3) sales and assistance agreements. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend authority for furnishing agricultural commodities to developing and friendly countries through 1995. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend authorities through 1995 for: (1) the farmer-to-farmer program; (2) the food for progress program; (3) the targeted export assistance program; and (4) the short-term export credit program. Directs the CCC to provide commodity export enhancement assistance through FY 1995. Title XII: Conservation - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend authority for the conservation reserve program through 1995. Title XIII: Research - Amends Federal law to authorize appropriations through FY 1995 for agricultural research facilities grants and competitive research grants. Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to authorize appropriations through FY 1995 for grants to financially stressed farmers, dislocated farmers, and rural families. Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to authorize appropriations through FY 1995 for: (1) grants to support higher education in the food and agricultural sciences; (2) animal health and disease research; (3) animal health and disease national or regional research; (4) agricultural research; (5) extension education; (6) aquaculture; (7) rangeland research; and (8) dairy goat research. Authorizes expenditures for agricultural technology research through 1995. Extends authority through FY 1995 for supplemental and alternative crops research and pilot programs. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize appropriations through FY 1995 for: (1) grants to upgrade 1890 land-grant college extension facilities; (2) acquisition, construction, and repair of Federal agricultural research facilities; and (3) market expansion research. Title XIV: Food Stamp and Related Provisions - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to allocate funds for employment training through 1995. Extends pilot project authority through 1995. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1995 for: (1) the food stamp program; and (2) block grants to Puerto Rico. Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act to extend authorities for the commodity distribution and supplemental food programs through FY 1995. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to extend authority through 1995 for surplus commodities to nutrition projects program reprocessing agreements. Amends the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to reauthorize and extend the termination for such Act through FY 1995. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize appropriations for nutrition education through FY 1995.
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Timeline
5 February 1990
Introduced
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Source: IntroReferral
5 February 1990
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
5 February 1990
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
6 February 1990
Referred
Referred to the Subcommittee on Wheat, Soybeans, and Feed Grains.
Source: Committee
2 May 1990
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
10 May 1990
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
16 May 1990
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
17 May 1990
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
22 May 1990
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
23 May 1990
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
24 May 1990
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
13 June 1990
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
13 June 1990
Reported
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Source: Committee
28 June 1990
Passed
Mr. de la Garza asked unanimous consent that the Committee on Agriculture have until 6:00 p.m. on July 3 to file a report on H.R. 3950. Agreed to without objection.
Source: Committee
3 July 1990
Introduced
Referred jointly and sequentially to the House Committee on Education and Labor for a period ending not later than July 18, 1990 for consideration of such provisions of the bill and amendment as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee pursuant to clause 1 (g) of rule X.
Source: IntroReferral
3 July 1990
Reported
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Agriculture. H. Rept. 101-569, Part I.
Source: Committee
3 July 1990
Reported
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Agriculture. H. Rept. 101-569, Part I.
Source: Committee
11 July 1990
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
11 July 1990
Reported
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Source: Committee
12 July 1990
Reported
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Source: Committee
12 July 1990
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
13 July 1990
Passed
Mr. Roybal asked unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Affairs have until midnight on July 16 to file a report on H.R. 3950. Agreed to without objection.
Source: Committee
16 July 1990
Reported
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Foreign Affairs. H. Rept. 101-569, Part II.
Source: Committee
16 July 1990
Introduced
Referred jointly and sequentially to the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries for a period ending not later than July 18, 1990 for consideration of such provisions of the amendment recommended by the Comittee on Foreign Affairs as fall within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries pursuant to clause 1(n), Rule X.
Source: IntroReferral
16 July 1990
Reported
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Foreign Affairs. H. Rept. 101-569, Part II.
Source: Committee
17 July 1990
Committee
Supplemental report filed by the Committee on Agriculture, H. Rept. 101-569, Part III.
Source: Committee
17 July 1990
Committee
Supplemental report filed by the Committee on Agriculture, H. Rept. 101-569, Part III.
Source: Committee
18 July 1990
Discharge
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries discharged.
Source: Discharge
18 July 1990
Reported
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Labor. H. Rept. 101-569, Part IV.
Source: Committee
18 July 1990
Reported
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Labor. H. Rept. 101-569, Part IV.
Source: Committee
18 July 1990
Calendars
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 375.
Source: Calendars
18 July 1990
Committee
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries discharged.
Source: Committee
18 July 1990
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
18 July 1990
Reported
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Source: Committee
18 July 1990
Passed
Mr. Rostenkowski asked unanimous consent that the Committee on Ways and Means have until midnight on July 18 to file a report on H.R. 3950. Agreed to without objection.
Source: Committee
20 July 1990
Reported
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 439 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3950 with 3 hours and 30 minutes of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. It shall be in order to consider the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Agriculture now printed in the bill, as modified by the amendments printed in section one of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution, as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule. Measure will be read by title. Bill is open to amendments. No amendments shall be in order unless they have been printed in the "Amendments" section of the Congressional Record of July 20, 1990. Certain specified amendments are also made in order by the provisions of this resolution, but they may only be offered in the manner specified in the report...
Source: Floor
20 July 1990
Passed
SUBMITTING OF AMENDMENTS FOR PRINTING - Mr. Hall of Ohio asked unanimous consent that Members have until 5 p.m. on today, July 20, 1990, to submit amendments on H.R. 3950 for printing in the Congressional Record of today, July 20, 1990. Agreed to without objection.
Source: Floor
23 July 1990
Floor
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 3950 as unfinished business.
Source: Floor
23 July 1990
Floor
The Speaker designated the Honorable David E. Bonior to act as Chairman of the Committee.
Source: Floor
23 July 1990
Floor
House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 439 and Rule XXIII.
Source: Floor
23 July 1990
Floor
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3950 with 3 hours and 30 minutes of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. It shall be in order to consider the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Agriculture now printed in the bill, as modified by the amendments printed in section one of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution, as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule. Measure will be read by title. Bill is open to amendments. No amendments shall be in order unless they have been printed in the "Amendments" section of the Congressional Record of July 20, 1990. Certain specified amendments are also made in order by the provisions of this resolution, but they may only be offered in the manner specified in the report...
Source: Floor
23 July 1990
Floor
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 439.
Source: Floor
23 July 1990
Passed
Rule H. Res. 439 passed House.
Source: Floor
24 July 1990
Floor
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 3950 as unfinished business.
Source: Floor
24 July 1990
Passed
PERMISSION TO OFFER MODIFIED AMENDMENT - Mr. Synar asked unanimous consent that, during consideration of H.R. 3950 pursuant to House Resolution 439, he may be permitted to offer his amendment printed in House Report 101-609 in the modified form that he had submitted at the desk. Agreed to without objection.
Source: Floor
24 July 1990
Floor
The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
Source: Floor
24 July 1990
Floor
Considered as unfinished business.
Source: Floor
25 July 1990
Floor
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 3950 as unfinished business.
Source: Floor
25 July 1990
Passed
On motion that the Committe rise Agreed to by voice vote.
Source: Floor
25 July 1990
Floor
Mr. de la Garza moved that the Committe rise.
Source: Floor
25 July 1990
Passed
LIMITATION OF DEBATE - Mr. de la Garza asked unanimous consent that further debate on the Glickman amendment be limited to not to exceed ten minutes, equally divided as follows: Messers. Penny, Williams, Madigan, Armey, Lehman (Ca), and de la Garza. Agreed to without objection.
Source: Floor
25 July 1990
Floor
The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
Source: Floor
25 July 1990
Floor
Considered as unfinished business.
Source: Floor
27 July 1990
Floor
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 3950 as unfinished business.
Source: Floor
27 July 1990
Floor
DEBATE - Pursuant to a unanimous consent request by Mr. de la Garza, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Glickman amendment.
Source: Floor
27 July 1990
Floor
The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
Source: Floor
27 July 1990
Floor
Considered as unfinished business.
Source: Floor
31 July 1990
Reported
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 444 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3950. During the further consideration of H.R. 3950 under the five-minute rule, debate on the following amendments is limited as follows: an amendment to title VI by Mr. Conte, 20 minutes; an amendment to title XI by Mr. Conte, 60 minutes and a substitute thereto by Mr. Huckaby, 60 minutes; an amendment to title XIV by Mr. Stenholm, 20 minutes and a substitute thereto by Mr. DeFazio, 20 minutes; the amendments en bloc to title XVII by Mr. Frenzel, 40 minutes. Protected amendments will be debated for 10 minutes each. Measure will be read by title. Specified amendments are in order.
Source: Floor
1 August 1990
Passed
The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Source: Floor
1 August 1990
Floor
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
Source: Floor
1 August 1990
Floor
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 3950.
Source: Floor
1 August 1990
Floor
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 444, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Conte amendment.
Source: Floor
1 August 1990
Floor
The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
Source: Floor
1 August 1990
Floor
Considered as unfinished business.
Source: Floor
1 August 1990
Passed
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Source: Floor
1 August 1990
Vote
On passage Passed by recorded vote: 327 - 91 (Roll No. 299).
Source: Floor
1 August 1990
Vote
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 327 - 91 (Roll No. 299).
Source: Floor
1 August 1990
Failed
On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by Division vote: 38 - 92.
Source: Floor
1 August 1990
Floor
Mr. Madigan moved to recommit with instructions to Agriculture.
Source: Floor
1 August 1990
Passed
Rule H. Res. 444 passed House.
Source: Floor
4 August 1990
Floor
Laid on the table. See S. 2830 for further action.
Source: Floor
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
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Sponsors
- Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15] · D · Sponsor
- Rep. Madigan, Edward R. [R-IL-15] · R · Sponsor
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Related records
- related to → Providing for the further consideration of the bill (H.R. 3950) the "Food and Agricultural Resources Act of 1990".
- related to → To amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to exclude the malting barley price from the national weighted market price for barley in determining the payment rate used to calculate deficiency payments for the 1989 crop of barley, and to require the Secretary to establish the target price of barley for the 1990 crop based on all feed and food uses.
- related to → Forest Stewardship Assistance Act of 1989
- related to → Mickey Leland Memorial Domestic Hunger Relief Act
- related to → Providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 3950) the "Food and Agricultural Resources Act of 1990".
- related to ← National Undesirable Plant Management Act of 1990
- related to ← Recognizing the importance of the domestic fruit and vegetable industry in U.S. farm policy, and the importance of fruits and vegetables to the diets of the American people; requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study of the domestic fruit and vegetable industry; and amending the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.
- related to ← To establish price support programs for the 1991 through 1995 crops of cotton, rice, and sugar.
- related to ← Oilseed Equity Loan Act of 1990
- related to ← Food for Peace and Agricultural Export Promotion Act of 1990
- related to ← Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990
- amends ← An amendment to strike the bill's provisions regarding the sugar price support program (loan rate of 18 cents per pound, sugar marketing allotments, etc.), and insert provisions authorizing a sugar loan rate of 16 cents per pound in 1991 through 1995.
- amends ← An amendment to strike subtitle C of title II which would eliminate sugarcane disaster assistance as well as reporting requirements on quota allocations to countries importing sugar.
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Sources
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