Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989

Summary

Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates funds for FY 1989 for the following programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) Office of the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; (3) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Special Services; (4) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration; (5) rental payments; (6) building operations and maintenance; (7) advisory committees; (8) hazardous waste management; (9) departmental administration; (10) Working Capital Fund; (11) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental and Public Affairs; (12) Office of the Inspector General; (13) Office of the General Counsel; (14) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Economics; (15) Economic Research Service; (16) National Agricultural Statistics Service; (17) World Agricultural Outlook Board; (18) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Science and Education; (19) Agricultural Research Service; (20) Cooperative State Research Service; (21) Extension Service; (22) National Agricultural Library; (23) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Marketing and Inspection Services; (24) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (25) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (26) Federal Grain Inspection Service; (27) Agricultural Cooperative Service; (28) Agricultural Marketing Service; (29) Office of Transportation; (30) Packers and Stockyards Administration; (31) Office of the Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs; (32) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service; (33) Dairy Indemnity Program; (34) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation; and (35) Commodity Credit Corporation. Authorizes specified amounts to be transferred from the Commodity Credit Corporation to support the General Sales Manager in expanding commodity sales abroad. Directs the Commodity Credit Corporation to make specified amounts available for short-term and intermediate export credit. Title II: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for rural development assistance as follows: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural Development; (2) Farmers Home Administration; (3) Rural Electrification Administration; (4) Soil Conservation Service; and (5) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. 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; (3) Human Nutrition Information Service; and (4) Food Stamp Program. Title IV: International Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Foreign Agricultural Service; (2) Agricultural Trade Missions; (3) Public Law 480 (financing the sale of agricultural commodities for convertible foreign currencies); (4) the Office of International Cooperation and Development; and (5) scientific activities overseas. Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Food and Drug Administration; (2) Farm Credit System Financial Assistance Corporation; (3) Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (4) Farm Credit Administration. Title VI: General Provisions - Limits the expenditures of appropriations for consulting service through procurement contract to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection. Authorizes the use of funds for replacement passenger motor vehicles and uniforms and allowances. Limits the availability of funds for contracting for research and service work. 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. States that the following appropriation items shall remain available until expended: (1) Public Law 480; (2) mutual and self-help housing; (3) watershed and flood prevention operations; (4) resource conservation and development; (5) Colorado River Basin salinity control program; (6) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (7) specified amounts for an emergency contingency fund, and buildings and facilities; (8) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service county committees; (9) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund; (10) Agricultural Research Service facilities and buildings; (11) scientific activities overseas (foreign currency program); (12) dairy indemnity program; (13) specified amounts for grasshopper and Mormon cricket control; (14) specified amounts for education training grants under Public Law 95-113; and (15) Food and Drug Administration facilities and buildings. Limits the availability of funds for orientation and language training. Authorizes part-time and intermittent intra-Department of Agriculture employee transfers. 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 (FmHA) in connection with specified insurance funds shall not be less than 65 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. Prohibits the use of funds to reimburse the General Services Administration for rental space in excess of amounts specified in this Act. 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. Authorizes the use of funds for foreign language translation of Department publications. Prohibits the use of funds under any Act to relocate the Hawaii State Office of the FmHA from Hilo, Hawaii, to Honolulu, Hawaii. Exempts Department veterinarians from personal service contract restrictions with respect to taking animal blood samples, testing and vaccinating animals, and performing branding and tagging activities on a fee-for-service basis. Prohibits employee reductions below specified levels for the FmHA, the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, the Rural Electrification Administration, and the Soil Conservation Service. Authorizes the use of funds 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. Prohibits the use of funds to restrict the authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation to lease jointly-occupied space for its own use or on behalf of other Department of Agriculture agencies. Prohibits the use of funds to release information acquired from certain handlers under the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937. Prohibits the use of funds by the FmHA to employ or otherwise contract with private debt collection agencies to collect delinquent payments from FmHA borrowers. Prohibits the use of funds to alter the method of computing normalized agricultural commodity prices with regard to water resources projects in effect as of January 1, 1986. Prohibits the use of funds to sell loans made by the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund. Prohibits the use of funds under specified conditions to pay the salaries of personnel carrying out: (1) the honey price support program; and (2) the export enhancement program. Reduces appropriation items or loan program levels available under this Act by one percent, except for mandatory programs during FY 1989 and Public Law 480.

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Timeline

1. 18 February 1988

   Referred

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

   Source: Committee

2. 18 February 1988

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 1 March 1988

   Committee

   First Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

   Source: Committee

4. 27 April 1988

   Committee

   Final Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

   Source: Committee

5. 18 May 1988

   Committee

   Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee.

   Source: Committee

6. 18 May 1988

   Committee

   First Day of Subcommittee Mark-up.

   Source: Committee

7. 26 May 1988

   Reported

   Ordered to be Reported.

   Source: Committee

8. 26 May 1988

   Committee

   Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

   Source: Committee

9. 10 June 1988

   Calendars

   Placed on Union Calendar No: 411.

   Source: Calendars

10. 10 June 1988

    Reported

    Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 100-690.

    Source: Committee

11. 10 June 1988

    Reported

    Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 100-690.

    Source: Committee

12. 10 June 1988

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    Source: IntroReferral

13. 10 June 1988

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    Source: IntroReferral

14. 16 June 1988

    Vote

    Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 343 - 54 (Record Vote No: 190).

    Source: Floor

15. 16 June 1988

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 343 - 54 (Record Vote No: 190).

    Source: Floor

16. 16 June 1988

    Floor

    Called up by House as Privileged Matter.

    Source: Floor

17. 20 June 1988

    Calendars

    Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 741.

    Source: Calendars

18. 20 June 1988

    Reported

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

    Source: Committee

19. 20 June 1988

    Reported

    Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator Burdick with amendments. With written report No. 100-389.

    Source: Committee

20. 20 June 1988

    Introduced

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

    Source: IntroReferral

21. 28 July 1988

    Floor

    Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.

    Source: Floor

22. 29 July 1988

    ResolvingDifferences

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

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

23. 29 July 1988

    Floor

    Considered by Senate.

    Source: Floor

24. 29 July 1988

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 74-8. Record Vote No: 278.

    Source: Floor

25. 3 August 1988

    Floor

    Message on Senate action sent to the House.

    Source: Floor

26. 9 September 1988

    Passed

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

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

27. 9 September 1988

    Passed

    House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Voice Vote.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

28. 9 September 1988

    Passed

    Resolving differences -- House actions: House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Voice Vote.

    Source: NotUsed

29. 23 September 1988

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

30. 23 September 1988

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference committee actions: Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

31. 26 September 1988

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

32. 26 September 1988

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference committee actions: Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

33. 27 September 1988

    Passed

    Conferees agreed to file conference report.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

34. 27 September 1988

    Passed

    Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

35. 28 September 1988

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference Report 100-990 Filed in House.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

36. 28 September 1988

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference report filed: Conference Report 100-990 Filed in House.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

37. 29 September 1988

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference papers: message on House action held at the desk in Senate.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

38. 29 September 1988

    ResolvingDifferences

    House Receded and Concurred in Senate Amendments 020, 060, 071, 078, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

39. 29 September 1988

    NotUsed

    Resolving differences -- House actions: House Receded and Concurred in Senate Amendments 020, 060, 071, 078, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119.

    Source: NotUsed

40. 29 September 1988

    Vote

    House Agreed to Conference Report by Yea-Nay Vote: 353 - 35 (Record Vote No: 364).

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

41. 29 September 1988

    Vote

    Conference report agreed to in House: House Agreed to Conference Report by Yea-Nay Vote: 353 - 35 (Record Vote No: 364).

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

42. 30 September 1988

    President

    Presented to President.

    Source: President

43. 30 September 1988

    Vote

    Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 90-4. Record Vote No: 345.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

44. 30 September 1988

    Floor

    Presented to President.

    Source: Floor

45. 30 September 1988

    Floor

    Measure Signed in Senate.

    Source: Floor

46. 30 September 1988

    Passed

    Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to House amendment to Senate amendments nos. 1, 12, 22, 43, 46, 56, 68, 75, 82, 90, 91, 109, 120, 121, 122, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 140, 141, and 142 by Voice Vote.

    Source: NotUsed

47. 30 September 1988

    Vote

    Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 90-4. Record Vote No: 345.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

48. 1 October 1988

    Became law

    Became Public Law No: 100-460.

    Source: President

49. 1 October 1988

    Became law

    Signed by President.

    Source: BecameLaw

50. 1 October 1988

    President

    Signed by President.

    Source: President

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  Public Law · EN · 2 October 1988

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Sponsors

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