A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to increase the levels of loans and purchases for 1979, 1980, and 1981 crops of feed grains, wheat, and soybeans.
Latest action. Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to require that the levels of loans and purchases for the 1979, 1980, and 1981 crops of corn, wheat, and soybeans be not less than 70 percent of parity. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available loans and purchases at not less than 80 percent of program levels for the 1979 crops of corn, barley, oats, grain sorghum, and wheat to producers who did not participate in, or who were ineligible because of noncompliance with, such programs. Declares that specified provisions of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977, relating to set-asides of normally planted acreage, shall not apply to specified loans and purchases for the 1979 crop of soybeans.
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 17, 1980. 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 17, 1980: 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?
DONALD ALBOSTA (D-MI) introduced it on January 17, 1980, and 4 members have since signed on as cosponsors.
They are 4 Democrats.
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 17, 1980, 17038 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 17038 days ago, on January 17, 1980.
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