Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013
Latest action. On passage Failed by roll-call voteA recorded vote in which every member's yea or nay is public. The alternative, a voice vote, records only the outcome.Read the full definition (opens a new tab): 195 - 234 (Roll no. 286).
Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 - Title I: Commodities - Subtitle A: Repeals and Reforms - (Sec. 1101) Repeals, but continues for crop year 2013: (1) direct payments, (2) countercyclical payments, and (3) the average crop revenue election program (ACRE).
(Sec. 1105) Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to provide for a farm's base acreage adjustment for covered commodities if: (1) a conservation reserve contract expires or is voluntarily terminated, (2) cropland is released from conservation reserve contract coverage, or (3) the producer has eligible oilseed acreage.
(Sec. 1106) Directs the Secretary to establish a yield for each farm for any designated oilseed for which a payment yield was not established.
(Sec. 1107) Provides for crop years 2014-2018 either: (1) price loss coverage if a covered commodity's effective price is less than its reference price; or (2) alternative revenue loss coverage, as a permanent one-time election, if a covered commodity's county revenue is less than the county revenue loss coverage trigger.
(Sec. 1108) Requires producers to comply with specified conservation requirements in order to receive payments under this subtitle.
(Sec. 1109) States that this subtitle shall be effective for crop years 2014-2018.
Subtitle B: Marketing Loans - (Sec. 1201) Authorizes:
nonrecourse marketing assistance loans through crop year 2018;
loan deficiency payments through crop year 2018;
payments in lieu of loan deficiency payments for wheat, oats, or barley acreage used for grazing through crop year 2018;
programs for upland cotton and extra long staple cotton;
assistance for peanuts; and
recourse loans for high moisture feed grains and seed cotton through crop year 2018.
(Sec. 1210) Authorizes loan rate adjustments for any loan commodity (other than cotton) for differences in grade, type, quality, location, and other factors.
Subtitle C: Sugar - (Sec. 1301) Provides nonrecourse loans to processors of domestically grown sugarcane and domestically grown sugar beets through crop year 2018.
Directs the Secretary to make sugarcane and sugar beet quantity estimates through crop year 2018 for: (1) human consumption, (2) carryover stocks, (3) carry-in stocks, (4) domestic processing, and (5) imports.
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Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Reported to House amended, Part I" stage on May 29, 2013. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
This bill failed the vote the record describes below. A measure that fails is not revived; the same text has to be introduced again as a new measure.
The record's latest action, on June 20, 2013: On passage Failed by recorded vote: 195 - 234 (Roll no. 286).
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
FRANK LUCAS (R-OK) introduced it on May 13, 2013, and 1 member has since signed on as a cosponsor.
They are 1 Democrat.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
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Vote history
- HouseDid not advance · June 20, 2013
- SenateNot reached
- PresidentNot reached