To provide needed flexibility to the United States Department of Agriculture to help developing countries and move surplus commodities from the United States.
Summary
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to increase: (1) funding limits for foreign agricultural commodity assistance under the food for progress, food for development, and specified emergency and nonemergency programs; (2) commodity tonnage limits; and (3) funding limits for related administrative and technical assistance. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to authorize the Commodity Credit Corporation to pay program development and administration and monitoring costs incurred by private entities involved in foreign agricultural assistance programs to developing and friendly countries.
Committee is reviewing, marking up, or holding hearings on the bill
Sponsor
Ms. Kaptur
House (D) Ohio – 9
Latest Action
Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.
Mar 23, 2001