House
Mar 23, 2001

To provide needed flexibility to the United States Department of Agriculture to help developing countries and move surplus commodities from the United States.

Summary

Official

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.

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Introduced(1/6/01)
Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
President
Law

Sponsor

MK

Ms. Kaptur

House (D) Ohio – 9

Latest Action

Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.

Mar 23, 2001