HR 2081 · 107th Congress · Agriculture and Food
Sugar Program Reform Act
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Introduced2
Committee3
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Senate5
EnactedLatest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.(2001-06-13)
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Sugar Program Reform Act - Amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act with respect to the sugar program to: (1) reduce sugarcane loan rates through crop year 2004; (2) revise the sugar beet loan rate; (3) eliminate nonrecourse loans; and (4) eliminate sugar price supports after crop year 2002. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal sugar and crystalline fructose marketing quota and allotment provisions. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the President, beginning after the 2000-2001 quota year, to use all available authority to ensure that U.S. market raw sugar shall be available at not more than the higher of the world sugar price or the U.S. loan rate.…
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Cosponsors (20)
6 Democrats14 Republicans