Emergency Food and Fiber Supply Stabilization Act of 1979
Latest action. Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Emergency Food and Fiber Supply Stabilization Act of 1979 - Title I: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set the price support for the 1979 through 1981 crops of wheat at not less than $3.25 per bushel. Provides for a sliding-scale of established prices, keyed to voluntary five percent increments above the required acreage set-aside level, ranging from 65 percent of parity per bushel for a 20 percent set-aside up to 100 percent of parity for a 50 percent set-aside. Title II: Feed Grains - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set the price support for the 1979 through 1981 crops of feed grains at not less than $2.25 per bushel. Provides for a sliding-scale of established prices, keyed to voluntary five percent increments above the required set-aside level, ranging from 60 percent of parity per bushel for a 10 percent set-aside up to 100 percent of parity for a 50 percent set-aside. Title III: Upland Cotton - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set the nonrecourse loan level for the 1979 through 1981 crops of upland cotton at not less than 55 cents per pound for Strict Low Middling one and one-sixteenth-inch upland cotton. Provides for a sliding-scale of established prices, keyed to voluntary five percent increments above the required set-aside level, ranging from 64 percent of parity per pound for a 20 percent set-aside up to 100 percent of parity for a 50 percent set-aside. Title IV: Grain Release Prices - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949: (1) to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from providing for the redemption of stored wheat and feed grains loans unless the market price for such commodities is not less than parity; (2) to prohibit the Secretary from calling such loans until the market price for wheat and feed grains is at least 105 percent of parity; and (3) to prohibit the Commodity Credit Corporation from selling its stocks of wheat and feed grains for less than the parity price of such commodities.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on January 15, 1979. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
4 steps remain before this bill could become law.
The record's latest action, on January 15, 1979: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
- Clearing the committees it was referred to, and being scheduled for a floor vote
- Passage by the House
- Passage by the Senate
- The President's signature. If the President vetoes it, two-thirds of both chambers must vote to override.
How likely is it to become law?
Civibrief does not forecast outcomes and this page has no opinion about this one. What the record supports is a base rate, which is a fact about the whole pile, not a prediction about this measure.
In the 96th Congress (1979-80), 613 of the 12,581 bills and joint resolutions introduced became law, about 4.9 percent. That count covers every measure at every stage, including the many that never left committee.
This one is not there yet: 4 steps are still outstanding, listed above.
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?
JACK HIGHTOWER (D-TX) introduced it on January 15, 1979. No cosponsors are recorded.
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.
How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on January 15, 1979, 17452 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 17452 days ago, on January 15, 1979.
Measures do not carry over. Anything the 96th Congress has not finished by January 3, 1981 dies when the term ends, and has to be introduced again from the start in the next Congress.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HouseIn committee, no floor vote yet
- SenateAwaits House passage
- PresidentAwaits both chambers