Legislation Introduced into the Senate and referred to the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee

• H.Con.Res.352 Expressing the sense of Congress that Federal land management agencies should fully support the "Collaborative 10-year Strategy for Reducing Wildland Fire Risks to Communities and the Environment" as prepared by the Western Governors" Assocaiton, the Department of Agriculture, the Departament of the Interior, and other stakeholders, to reduce the overabendance of forest fuels that place national resources a thigh risk of catastrophic wildfie, and prepare a national assessment of prescribed burning practices to minimize risks of escape.SPONSOR: Rep. Pombo, Richard W.
• H.R. 3216 A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to exclude certain basic allowances for housing of an individual who is a member of the uniformed services from the determination of eligibility for free and reduced price meals of a child of the individual.  SPONSOR: Rep Castle, Michael N.
• S. Res. 45 A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1958 should be fully enforced so as to prevent needless suffering of animals. SPONOSR: Peter Fizgerald [ full text]
• S. Res. 13 Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the need for Congress to enact a new farm bill during the 1st session of the 107th Congress. SPONSOR: Mr. Daschle [Full text]
• S. Res. 31 An orginial resolution authorizing expenditures by theCommittee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. SPONSOR: Mr. Lugar [Full tex]
• S.Res.297 A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that pet owners should regularly visit their veterinarians for their pets to receive check-ups, and for advice on issues like flea and tick control, especially during the spring and summer months SPONSOR: Mr. Smith [ Full Text ]
• S.Res. 308 A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the "Once-a-Day" program to promote local farm products. SPONSOR: Ms. Clinton [Full Text ]
• S. Res. 324 Congratulating the National Farmers Union for 100 years of service to family farmers, ranchers, and rural communities SPONSOR: Mr. Johnson [ Full Text ]
• S. 20 A bill to enhance fair and open competition in the production and sale of agricultural commodities, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Daschle [full text]
• S. 105 A bill to amend the Agricltural Adjustment Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from basing minimum prices for Class I milk on the distance or transportation costs from any location that is not within a marketing area, except under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.SPONSOR: Mr. Feingold [full text]
• S.107 A bill to allow modified bloc voting by cooperative associations of milk producers in connection with a referendum of Federal Milk Marketing Order reform. SPONSOR: Mr. Feingold [full text]
• S. 109(Dairy Farmer Viabilitly Act) A bill to establish the Dairy Farmer Viability Commission. SPONSOR: Mr. Feingold [Full text]
• S. 111 A bill to amend the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 to ensure that all persons who benefit from the dairy promotion and research program contribute to the cost of the program. SPONSOR: Mr. Feingold [full text]
• S. 117 A bill to prohibit products that contain dry ultra-filtered milk products or casein from being labeled as domestic natural cheese, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Feingold [full text]
• S. 118 (Fruit, Vegetable, and Plant Smuggling Prevention Act of 2001)A bill to strengthen the penalties for violations of plant quarantine laws. SPONSOR: Mrs. Feinstein [Full text]
• S. 130 (Food Security and Land Stewardship Act of 2001) A bill to amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to establish a flexible fallow program under which a producer may idle a portion of the total planted acreage of the loan commodities of the producer in exchange for higher loan rates for marketing assistance loans on the remaining acreage of the producer. SPONSOR: Mr. Johnson [Full text]
• S. 142 A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to make it unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter. SPONSOR: Mr. Johnson [Full text]
• S. 144 (Peanut Labeling Act of 2001) A bill to require country of origin labeling of peanuts products and to establish penalties for violations of the labeling requirements.SPONSOR: Mr. Cleland [Full text]
• S. 165(Family Agriculture Recovery and Market (FARM) Equity Act of 2001) A bill to amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to increase loan rates for marketing assistance loans for each of the 2001 and 2002 crops, to make nonrecourse marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments available to producers of dry peas, lentils, chickpeas, and rye and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Dorgan [Full text]
• S. 267 A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921, to make it unlawful for any stockyard owner, market agency, or dealer to transfer or market nonambulatory livestock, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Akaka [Full text]
• S. 280 A bill to amend the Agriculture Marketing Act of 1946 to require retailers of beef, lamb, pork, and perishable agricultural commodities to inform consumers, at the final point of sale to consumers, of the country of origin of the commodities. SPONSOR: Mr. Johnson [Full text]
• S. 294 A bill to amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to establish a program to provide dairy farmers a price safety net for small- and medium-sized dairy producers. SPONSOR: Mr. Santorum [Full text]
• S. 345 A bill to amend the Animal Welfare Act to strike the limitation that permits interstate movement of live birds, for the purpose of fighting, to States in which animal fighting is lawful. SPONSOR: Mr. Allard [Full text]
• S. 366 A bill to amend the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to increase the amount of funds available for certain agricultural trade programs. SPONSOR: Ms. Murray [Full text]
• S. 380 A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide that agricultural producers that suffer or are likely to suffer substantial economic injury as the result of a sharp and significant increase in certain costs are eligible to receive emergency loans. SPONSOR: Mr. Kohl [Full text]
• S. 532 A bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to permit a State to register a Canadian peticide for distribution and use within that State. SPONSOR: Mr. Dorgan [Full text]
• S. 544 A bill to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to provide that a quality grade label issued by the Secretary of Agriculture may not be used for imported meat and meat food products. SPONSOR: Mr. Burns [Full text]
• S. 568 A bill to amend the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, to respond to the severe economic losses being incurred by crop producers, livestock and poultry producers, and greenhouse operators as a result of the sharp increase in energy costs or input costs from energy sources. SPONSOR: Mr. Sessions [Full text]
• S. 583 A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to improve nutrition assistance for working families and the elderly, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Kennedy [Full text]
• S. 657 A bill to authorize funding for the National 4-H Program Centennial Initiative. SPONSOR: Mr. Lugar [Full text]
• S. 668 A bill to amend the Animal Welfare Act to ensure that all dogs and cats used by research facilities are obtained legally. SPONSOR: Mr. Akaka [Full text]
• S. 708 (Animal Disease Risk Assessment, Prevention, and Control Act of 2001) A bill to provide the citizens of theUnited States and Congress with a report on coordinated actions by Federal agencies to prevent the introduction of foot and mouth disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy into the United States and other information to assess the economic and public health impacts associated with the potential threats prsented by those diseases. SPONSOR: Mr. Hatch [Full text]
• S. 716 A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to nonprofit organizations to finance the construction, refurbishing, and serviceing of individually-owned household water well systems in rural areas for indiviuals with low or moderate incomes SPONSOR: Mr. Santorum [ Full text ]
• S. 736 A bill to amend Title 10, United States Code, to provide for the appointment of a Chief of the Veterinary Corps of the Army in the grade of brigadier general, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Allard [Full text]
• S. 745 A bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to promote better nutrition among school children participating in the school breakfast and lunch programs. SPONSOR: Mr. Leahy [ Full text ]
• S.758 A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize the annual enrollment of land in the wetlands reserve program, to extend the wetlands reserve program through 2005, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Tim Hutchinson [ Full Text ]
• S. 769 A bill to establish a carbon sequestration program and an implementing panel within the Department of Commerce to enhance international conservation, to promote the role of carbon sequestration as a means of slowing the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and to reward and encourage voluntary, pro-active environmental efforts on the issue to global climate change. SPONSOR: Mr. Brownback [Full text]
• S. 785 A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a carbon sequestration program to permit owners and operators of land to enroll the land in the program to increase the sequestration of carbon and for other purposes SPONSOR: Mr. Brownback [Full Text ]
• S. 877 A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require that a warning label be affixed to arsenic-treated wood sold in the United States SPONOS: Mr. Nelson [ Full Text ]
• S.909 A bill to improve the administration of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mrs. Lincoln [ Full Text ]
• S.923 A bill to amend the Agricltural market Transition Act to extend the expansion of producers that are eligible for loan deficiency payments. SPONSOR: Mr. Grassley [ Full Text ]
• S. 932 A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to establish the conservation security program. SPONSOR: Mr. Harkin [ Full Text ]
• S. 977 A bill to amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make nonrecourse marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments available to producers of dry peas, lentils, and chickpeas. SPONSOR: Mr. Craig [ Full Text ]
• S, 997 (Sudden Oak Death Syndrome Control Act of 2001) A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct research, monitoring, management, treatment, and outreach activities relating to sudden oak death syndrome and to establish a Sudden Oak Death Syndrome Advisory Committee. SPONSOR: Mrs. Boxer [ Full Text ]
• S.1018 A bill to provide market loss assistance for apple producers SPONSOR: Mr. Levin [ Full Text ]
• S. 1072 A bill to extend eligibility for loan deficiency payments and payments in lieu of loan deficiency payments. SPONSOR: Mr. Roberts  [Full Text]
• S. 1098 (State Hunger Assistance in Response to Emergency Act of 2001) A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to improve food stamp informational activities in those States with the greatest rate of hunger. SONSOR: Mr. Smith of Oregon [ Full Text ]
• S. 1111 (National Rural Development Partnership Act of 2001) A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the National Rural Development Partnership, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Craig [ Full Text ]
• S. 1123 (Dairy Promotion Fairness Act) A bill to amend the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 to ensure that all persons who benefit from the dairy promotion and research program contribute to the cost of the program, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Feingold [ Full Text ]
• S. 1153 (Grassland Reserve Act) A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to establish a grassland reserve program to assist owners in restoring and protecting grassland. SPONSOR: Mr. Craig [ Full Text ]
• S. 1072 A bill to extend eligibility for loan deficiency payments and payments in lieu of loan deficiency payments. SPONSOR: Mr. Roberts [ Full Text ]
• S. 1179 (Emergency Commodity Distribution Act of 2001) A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to ensure an adequate level of commodity purchases under the school lunch program. SPONSOR: Mr. Johnson [ Full Text ]
• S. 1527 A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend and improve the environmental quality incentive program. SPONSOR: Mr. Enzi [ Full Text ]
• S. 1540 (Emergency Food Assistance Program Enhancement Act of 2001) A bill to extend and imporve the emergency food assistance program. SPONSOR: Mr. Fitzgerald [ Full Text ]
• S. 1546 A bill to provide additional funding to combat bioterrorism. SPONSOR: Mr. Roberts [ Full Text ]
• S. 1563 (Agricultural Bioterrorism Countermeasures Act of 2001) A bill to establish a coordinated program of science-based countermeasures to address the threats of agricultural bioterrorism. SPONSOR: Mrs. Hutchison [ Full Text ]
• H.R. 2213 A bill to respond to the continuing economic crisis adversely affecting American agricultural producers.SPONSOR: Rep. Larry Combest [ Full Text ]
• S. 1246: An original bill to respond to the continuing economic crisis adversely affecting American agricultural producers. SPONSOR: Mr. Harkin [ Full Text ]
• S.1255: A bill to encourage the use of carbon storage sequestration practices in the United States. SPONSOR Mr. Wyden [ Full Text ]
• S. 1267: A bill to extend and improve conservation programs administered by the Secretary of Agriculture. SPONSOR: Mr. Crapo [ Full Text ]
• S. 1326: A bill to extend and improve working lands and other conservation programs administered by the Secretary of Agriculture. SPONSOR: Mr. Lugar [ Full Text ]
• S. 1354: A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide payments to producers of forage crops for losses due to army worms. SPONSOR: Mrs. Carnahan [ Full Text ]
• S.1413: A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit borrowers and grantees to use certain rural development loans and grants for other purposes under certain circumstances. SPONSOR: Mr. Lugar [ Full Text ]
• S.1466 A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide grants for special environmental assistance for the regulation of communities and habitat ("SEARCH grants") to small communities. SPONSOR: Mr. Crapo [ Full Text ]
• S. 1474 A bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to extend and improve the collection of maintenance fees, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Harkin [ Full Text ]
• S. 1478 A bill to amend the Animal Welfare Act to improve the treatment of certain animals, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Santorum [ Full Text ]
• S. 1482 A bill to consolidate and revise the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture relating to protection of animal health. SPONSOR: Mr. Harkin [ Full Text ]
• S.1519 A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide farm credit assistance for activated reservists.SPONSOR: Mr. Harkin [Full Text ]
• S. 1538 A bill to further continued economic viability in the communities on the High Plains by promoting sustainable groundwater managerment of the Ogallala Aquifer. SPONSOR: Mr. Bingaman [ Full Text ]
• S. 1571 (Farm and Ranch Equity Act of 2001) SPONSOR: Mr. Lugar [ Full Text ] Summary of Sentor Lugar's Farm and Ranch Equity Act of 2001
• S.1595 A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to control bovine Johne's disease. SPONSOR: Mr. Feingold [ Full Text ]
• S. 1604 (National Historic Barn Preservation Act of 2001) A bill to establish a national historic barn preservation program. SPONSOR: Mr. Jeffords [ Full Text ]
• S. 1628 (Agriculture, Conservation, and Rural Enhancement Act of 2001) A bill to strengthen the safety net for agricultureal producers, to enhance resource conservation and rural development, to provide for Farm Credit, agricultural research, nutrition, and related progams, to ensure cnsumers abundant food and fiber, and for other purposes. On 1/15/2001, the Seante Committee on Agriculture ordered S. 1731 to be reported as an original measure in lieu of S. 1628. SPONSOR: Mr. Harkin  See S. 1731 for full text.
• S.1629 A bill to provide farmers with better prices and higher profits through the marketplace. SPONSOR: Mr. Dayton [ Full Text ]
• S. 1633(Suburban and Community Forestry and Open Space Initiative Act of 2001) A bill to amend the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish a probram to provide assistance to States and nonprofit organizations to preserve suburban open space and contain suburban sprawl, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Ms. Collins [ Full Text]
• S. 1652 (Sugar Program Reform Act) A bill to amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to convert the price support program for sugarcane and sugar beets into a system of solely recourse loans and to provide for the gradual elimination of the program. SPONSOR: Mr. Santorum [ Full Text ]
• S. 1673 (Farm Security Act of 2001) A bill to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2011. SPONSOR: Mrs. Lincoln [ Full Text ]
• S. 1674 A bill to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to issue marketing orders for caneberries. SPONSOR: Mr. Smith [ Full Text ]
• S. 1681 (Northern Great Plains Rural Development Authority Act) A bill to establish the Northern Great Plains Rural Development Authority. SPONSOR: Mr. Johnson [ Full Text ]
• S. 1683 (Hunters Help the Hungry Act of 2001) A bill to amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to permint States to use administrative funds to pay costs relating to the processing, transporting, and distributing to eligible recipient agencies of donated wild game. SPONSOR: Mr. Harkin [ Full Text ]
• S. 1727 (Conservation Assistance and Regional Equity Act) A bill to reward the stewards of America's farms, ranches, public and private lands, wildlife, water Quality and supply, to reduce the risk of specialty crop production, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Reid [Full Text ]
• S. 1731 (Agriculture, Conservation, and Rural Enhancement Act of 2001) a bill to strengthen the safety net for agricultural producers, to enhance resource conservation and rural development, to provide for farm credit, agricultural research, nutrition, and related programs, to ensure consumers abundant food and fiber, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Harkin [ Full Text ] [pdf version ] The language has become H.R. 2646. Conference Report is 107-424
• S. 1815 A bill to amend the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a pilot program under which the Secretary shall make grants to local units of government or local nonprofit organizations in the State of Arkansas to employ non-Federal resource conservation and development coordinators. SPONSOR: Mrs. Lincoln [ Full Text ]
• S. 1938A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to establish a grant program to train farm workers in new agricultural technologies. SPONSOR: Mr. Bob Graham [ Full Text ]
• S.1951 A bill to provide regulatory oversight over energy trading markets, and for other purposes. S:ONSOR: Mrs. Feinstein [ Full Text ]
• S. 1960 A bill to amend the Biomass Research and Development Act of 2000 to encourage production of biobased energy products, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Harkin [ Full Text ]
• S.1973 A bill to amend the Richard B Russell National School Lunch Act to exclude certain basic allowances for housing of a member of a uniformed service from the determination of eligibility for free and reduced price meals of a child of the member. SPONSOR: Mr. Hagel [ Full Text ]
• S. 2013 A bill to clarify the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe performance standards for the reduction of pathogens in meat, meat products, poultry, and poultry products processed by establihsments receiving inspection services. SPONSOR: Mr. Harkin [ Full Text ]
• S. 2021 A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to prohibit the use of certain anti-competitive forward contracts. SPONSOR: Mr. Enzi [ Full Text ]
• S. 2040 A bill to provide emergency agricultural assistance to producers of the 2002 crop. SPONSOR: Mr. Roberts [ Full Text ]
• S. 2063 A bill to authorize the Secrtary of Agriuclture to sell or exchange all or part of certain administrative sites and other land in the Ozark-St. Francis and Ouachita National Forests and to use funds derived from the sale or exchange to acquire,construct, or improve administrative sites. SPONSOR: Mrs. Lincoln [ Full Text ]
• S. 2086 (Emergency Agricultura l Assistance Act of 2002) A bill to provide emergency agriculture assistance. SPONSOR: Mr. Baucus [ Full Text ]
• S.2108 (Senior Nutrition Act of 2002) A bill to amend the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to assist the neediest of senior citizens by modifying the eligibility criteria for supplemental foods provided under the commodity supplemental food program to take into account the extraordinarily high out-of-pocket medical expenses that senior citizens pay,l and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Ms. Stabenow [Full Text ]
• S. 2183 (Emergency Agricultural Assistance Act of 2002) A bill to provide emergency agricultural assistance to producers of the 2002 crop. SPONSOR: Mr. Hutchinson [ Full Text ]
• S. 2334 (Mineral Hill Historic Mining District Preservation Act of 2002) A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to accept the donation of certain land in the Mineral Hill-Crevice Mountain Mining District in the State of Montana, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Burns [ Full Text ]
• S. 2450 A bill to withdraw Federal land in Finger Lakes National Forest, New York, from entry, location, appropriation, disposal, patent, or leasing under certain Federal laws. SPONSOR: Mr. Schumer [ Full Text ]
• S.2532 (Meat and Poultry Products Safety Improvement Act of 2002) A bill to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to improve the safety of meat and poultry products. SPONSOR: Mr. Schumer [ Full Text ]
• S.2560 (Chronic Wasting Disease State Support Act of 2002) A bill to provide for a multi-agency cooperative effort to encourage further research regarding the causes of chronic wasting disease and methods to control the further spread of the disease in deer and elk herds, to monitor the incidence of the disease, to support State efforts to control the  disease, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Allard [ Full Text ]
• S. 2660 A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to increse the number of children participating in the summer food service program. SPONSOR: Mr. Lugar [ Full Text ]
• S.2706(Aid to Tobacco-Dependent Communities Act of 2002) A bill to improve economic opportunity and development in communities that are dependent on tobacco production, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Cleland [ Full Text ]
• S. 2728 A bill to provide emergency agricultural disaster assistane. SPONSOR: Mr. Dayton [ Full Text ]
• S.2749 (Highlands Stewardship Act of 2002) A bill to establish the Highlands Stewardship Area in the States of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Corzine [ Full Text ]
• S. 2767 (Agriculture Security Preparedness Act) A bill to enhance agricultural biosecurity in the United States through increased prevention, preparation, and response planning. SPONSOR: Mr. Akaka [ Full Text ]
• S. 2768 (Emergency Livestock Assistance Act of 2002) A bill to provide to agricultural producers emergency livestock assistance and assistance for control of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets, with offsets. SPONSOR: Mr. Hagel [ Full Text ]
• S. 2774 (APHIS Function Transfer Act) A bill to transfer to the Secretary of Homeland Security the functions of the Secretary of Agriculture relating to agricultural import and entry inspection activities. SPONOSR: Mr. Roberts [ Full Text ]
• S. 2776 (Galisteo Basin Archaeological Sites Protection Act) A bill to provide for the protection of archaelogical sites in the galisteo Basin in New Mexico, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Bingaman [ Full Text ]
• S. 2800 (Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2002) A bill to provide emergency disaster assistance to agricultural producers.  SPONSOR: Mr. Baucus [ Full Text ]
• S. 2803 (Safe and Fair Enforcement and Recall for Meat, Poultry,l and Food Act) A bill to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for improved public healgh and food safety through enhanced enforcement, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Harkin [ Full Text ]
• S. 2811 (Emergency Forest Rescue Act of 2002) A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to designate certain Federal forest land at risk for catastrophic wildfires as emergency mitigation areas, to authorize the use of alternative arrangements in those areas, and for other purposes.  SPONSOR: Mr. Enzi [ Full Text ]
• S. 2814 A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to clarify the rates applicable to marketing assitance loans and loan deficiency payments for other oilseeds. SPONSOR: Mr. Dorgan [ Full Text ]
• S.2830 (Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2002) A bill to provide emergency disaster assistance to agricultural producers. SPONSOR: Mr. Roberts [ Full Text ]
• S.2834 (Emergency Livestock Assistance Act of 2002) A bill to provide emergency livestock assistance to agricultural producers, with an offset. SPONSOR: Mr. Enzi [ Full Text ]
• S. 2867 A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to increase competition and transparency among packers that purchase livestock from producers. SPONSOR: Mr. Grassley [Full Text ]
• S. 2920 A bill to expedite procedures for hazardous fuels reductions activities and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Baucus [Full Text ]
• S. 2976 (Louisiana Rice Economic Relief Act of 2002) A bill to provide economic disaster assistance to producers of the 2002 crop of rice in the State of Louisiana. SPONSOR: Mr. Breaux [ Full Text ]
• S.2995 (Tobacco-Dependent Communities Assistance Act of 2002) A bill to improved economic opportnity and development in communities that are dependent on tobacco production, and for other purposes SPONSOR: Mr. Hollings [ Full Text ]
• S. 3004 (Rural Community Revitalization and Transition Act) A bill to eliminate the Federal quota and price support programs for certain tobacco, to compensate quota owners and holders for the loss of tobacco quota asset value, to establish a tobacco communit reinvestment program, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Helms [ Full Text ]
• S. 3016 (Sun Grant Initiative for Renewable Energy and Biobased Products Act) A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish research, extension, and educational programs to implement biobased energy technologies, products, and economic diversification in rural areas of the United States. SPONSOR: Mr. Daschle [ Full Text ]
• S. 3022 A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to suspend the requirement that rental payments under the conservation reserve program be reduced by reason of harvesting or grazing conducted in response to a drought or other emergency. SPONSOR: Mr. Roberts [ Full Text ]
• S. 3023 (Chesapeake Bay Watershed Forestry Program Act of 2002) A bill require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to expand and strengthen cooperative efforts to restore and protect forests in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr Sarbanes [ Full Text ]
• S. 3068 A bill to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to use the price of feed grains and other cash expenses as factors to determine the basic formula price for milk under milk marketing orders. SPONSOR: Mr. Specter [ Full Text ]
• S. 3090 (Comprehensive Wildlife Disease Testing Acceleration Act of 2002) A bill to provide for the testing of chronic wasting disease and other infectious disease in deer and elk herds, to establish the Interagency Task Force on Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Feingold [ Full Text ]
• S. 3094A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to clarify the rates applicable to marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments for other oilseeds, dry peas, lentils, and small chickpeas. SPONSOR: Mr. Dorgan [ Full Text ]
• S. 3095 (Genetically Engineered Foods Act) A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require premarket consultation and aproval with respect to genetically engineered foods, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Durbin [ Full Text ]
• S. 3111 A bill to compensate agricultural producers in the State of New Mexico that surffered crop losses as a result of use of a herbicide by the Bureau of Land Management. SPONSOR: Mr. Bingaman [ Full Text ]
• S. 3115 (Florida National Forest Land Management Act of 2002) A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange certain land in the State of Florida, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Graham [ Full Text ]
• S. 3118 (Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act) A bill to strengthen enforcement of provisions of the Animal Welfare Act relating to animal fighting, and for other purposes. SPONSOR: Mr. Ensign [ Full Text ]

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