Food and Agriculture Risk Management for the 21st Century Act of 2007

To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to reform commodity programs and to increase nutrition, conservation, and energy programs of the Department of Agriculture, to reduce the national budget deficit, and for other purposes.

6/14/2007--Introduced.
Food and Agriculture Risk Management for the 21st Century Act of 2007 or FARM 21 Act of 2007 - Prohibits, after 2007, any direct, counter-cyclical or transition payment to an individual or entity whose adjusted gross income exceeds $200,000. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to offer to enter into a risk management account with a qualifying farm or ranch operator. Extends direct payments and reduces payment amounts. Requires specified payment percentages, and 100% for FY2012, to be deposited into a risk management account. Links such payments to environmental stewardship. Extends counter-cyclical payments. Repeals:
(1) the milk price support program;
(2) specified commodity support programs; and
(3) the sugar tariff quota. Directs the Secretary to establish a recourse loan program for all commodities, including sugar, for which marketing loans were available. Reduces the crop insurance administrative and operating reimbursement rate. Extends:
(1) the environmental quality incentives program;
(2) the conservation innovation grants program;
(3) the wetlands reserve program;
(4) the grasslands reserve program;
(5) the wildlife habitat incentives program;
(6) the farm and ranchland protection program; and
(7) the healthy forests reserve program. Extends:
(1) the fruit and vegetables in school program;
(2) the farm to school program; and
(3) the farmers market promotion program. Directs the Secretary to assist eligible trade organizations increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables in the United States to meet federal health guidelines. Extends the McGovern-Dole international food for education and child nutrition program. Extends:
(1) the biorefinery grant and loan program;
(2) the renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements program; and
(3) the biomass research and development program. Sets forth specified rural development project eligibility criteria. Extends:
(1) the value-added producer grant program;
(2) the rural broadband access program;
(3) the rural business opportunity grant program; and
(4) the farmworker training grant program. Directs the Secretary to establish a rural entrepreneurship and microenterprise program to provide low- and moderate-income individuals with skills and technical and financial assistance to establish new small businesses in rural areas. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants and carry out a rural microloan program. Directs the Secretary to use specified Commodity Credit Corporation funds for:
(1) water or waste disposal grants or loans;
(2) emergency community water assistance grants;
(3) community facilities grants and loans that support projects that assist rural first responders;
(4) broadband access loans; and
(5) distance learning and telemedicine grants. Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 with respect to:
(1) combat pay and retirement account exclusions;
(2) standard deduction increases;
(3) child care deduction limits;
(4) state cost-sharing during natural disasters;
(5) minimum benefits;
(6) program reauthorization;
(7) program administration;
(8) cash payment pilot projects;
(9) block grants for Puerto Rico and American Samoa;
(10) the commodity distribution program;
(11) outreach grants;
(12) the emergency food assistance program; and
(13) community food projects. Directs the Secretary to offer to enter into a contract or grant agreement with a primary nongovernmental organization to establish the National Food for the Hungry Transportation Fund to track, collect, and deliver time-sensitive food products.

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Sponsor

• Rep. Ronald Kind [D, WI-3]
• and 22 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Shelley Berkley [D, NV-1]
  • Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D, OR-3]
  • Rep. Joseph Crowley [D, NY-7]
  • Rep. Peter DeFazio [D, OR-4]
  • Rep. Chaka Fattah [D, PA-2]
  • Rep. Jeff Flake [R, AZ-6]
  • Rep. Rush Holt [D, NJ-12]
  • Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D, TX-18]
  • Rep. Eddie Johnson [D, TX-30]
  • Rep. Mark Kirk [R, IL-10]
  • Rep. James McDermott [D, WA-7]
  • Rep. Gwen Moore [D, WI-4]
  • Rep. James Moran [D, VA-8]
  • Rep. Thomas Petri [R, WI-6]
  • Rep. Dave Reichert [R, WA-8]
  • Rep. Silvestre Reyes [D, TX-16]
  • Rep. Steven Rothman [D, NJ-9]
  • Rep. Paul Ryan [R, WI-1]
  • Christopher Shays
  • Rep. Adam Smith [D, WA-9]
  • Rep. Anthony Weiner [D, NY-9]
  • Albert Wynn
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Committees

• House Agriculture
• 6 more
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Foreign Affairs
  • House Education and Labor
  • House Education and Labor
  • House Education and Labor
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.2720

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
June 14, 2007

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• Sep 11, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
• Sep 11, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
• Jun 27, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
• Jun 14, 2007: Referred to House Ways and Means
• Jun 14, 2007: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
• Jun 14, 2007: Referred to House Education and Labor
• Jun 14, 2007: Referred to House Agriculture
• Jun 14, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Foreign Affairs, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• Introduced on Jun 14, 2007.

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• Agriculture
• Agribusiness
• Agricultural conservation
• Agricultural credit
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• Agricultural labor
• Agricultural prices
• Agricultural subsidies
• Agricultural wastes
• Agriculture in foreign trade
• Air pollution
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• Alternative energy sources
• American Samoa
• Animals
• Armed forces
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• Biomass energy
• Block grants
• Broadband
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• Business
• Child nutrition
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• Crop insurance
• Day care
• Defense policy
• Department of Agriculture
• Disasters
• Distance education
• Economic policy
• Education
• Elementary and secondary education
• Emergency management
• Energy
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• Energy research
• Entrepreneurs
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• Executive departments
• Farm lands
• Federal aid to research
• Federal budgets
• Finance
• Fire fighters
• Food
• Food relief
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• Forest conservation
• Fruit
• Government lending
• Government spending reductions
• Grants-in-aid
• Grassland ecology
• Greenhouse gases
• Habitat conservation
• Intergovernmental fiscal relations
• Labor
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• Marketing of farm produce
• Medical care
• Medicine
• Methane
• Military pay
• Milk
• Natural resources
• Nongovernmental organizations
• Nutrition
• Paramedical personnel
• Pensions
• Police
• Puerto Rico
• Refuse as fuel
• Research and development
• Research grants
• Rural affairs
• Rural economic development
• School lunch program
• Science policy
• Small business
• Solid wastes
• State and local government
• Sugar
• Tariff
• Telecommunication
• Telemedicine
• Trade
• Vegetables
• Water pollution
• Water pollution control
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• Water supply
• Welfare
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July 18, 2007 Farmers Issued Call To "Arms" To Defeat Kind Flake Farm Bill Amendment

“Representatives Ron Kind (D-WI) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and supporters of their legislation, HR 2720 or ‘FARM21,’ claim they offer ‘reforms’ to the farm ...

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June 28, 2007 Farm Bill’s Funding Squeeze Could Mean Long-Term Trouble for Democrats

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May 07, 2008 radvivi @ 2008-05-07t10:27:00

here are the related legislative links: hr2030, hr4604, hr736, and hr2720 4. ron paul’s tax plan is unfair to lower earners and would greatly benefit those with the highest incomes.he has repeatedly submitted amendments to the tax code ...

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