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Securing a Future for Independent Agriculture Act of 2001

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Congressional Summary of S 20

Securing a Future for Independent Agriculture Act of 2001 - Sets forth prohibitions against unfair practices involving agricultural commodity transactions. Establishes a related Family Farmer and Rancher Claims Commission.

Requires an agricultural contract to carry an obligation of good faith. Sets forth specified agricultural contract-related provisions.

Revises the Agricultural Fair Practices Act of 1967.

Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize private investors to establish the National Rural Cooperative and Business Equity Fund to raise and provide capital to rural businesses.

Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require retailers of covered commodities to inform consumers at the final point of sale of the commodity's country of origin.

Amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act to set forth marketing loan rates for feed grains, upland and extra long staple cotton, rice, and oilseeds.

Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to revise the farmland protection program.

Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture should take necessary actions to ensure the participation of socially disadvantaged farmers in Department of Agriculture programs.

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Current Status of Bill S 20

Bill S 20 is currently in the status of Bill Introduced since January 22, 2001. Bill S 20 was introduced during Congress 107 and was introduced to the Senate on January 22, 2001.  Bill S 20's most recent activity was Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S249-259) as of January 22, 2001

Bipartisan Support of Bill S 20

Total Number of Sponsors
1
Democrat Sponsors
1
Republican Sponsors
0
Unaffiliated Sponsors
0
Total Number of Cosponsors
15
Democrat Cosponsors
15
Republican Cosponsors
0
Unaffiliated Cosponsors
0

Policy Area and Potential Impact of Bill S 20

Primary Policy Focus

Agriculture and Food

Potential Impact Areas

- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Agribusiness
- Agricultural biotechnology
- Agricultural conservation
- Agricultural cooperatives
- Agricultural credit
- Agricultural economics
- Agricultural industries
- Agricultural prices
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture in foreign trade
- Animals
- Auditing
- Beef
- Business records
- Capital formation
- Charities
- Civil actions and liability
- Commerce
- Commercial arbitration
- Competition
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Conservation easements
- Contracts
- Cooperative societies
- Corn
- Corporate governance
- Corporate mergers
- Corporate reorganizations
- Corporation directors
- Cotton
- Cropland conversion program
- Dairy industry
- Damages
- Department of Agriculture
- Economic concentration
- Economics and Public Finance
- Economists in government
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental protection groups
- Executive reorganization
- Families
- Family farms
- Farmland protection
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal aid to rural areas
- Federal employees
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Feed grains
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fines (Penalties)
- Food prices
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Foundations
- Fraud
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government lending
- Government paperwork
- Government trust funds
- Governmental investigations
- Grain storage
- Grants-in-aid
- Housing and Community Development
- Imports
- Injunctions
- Intellectual property
- International corporations
- Investments
- Joint ventures
- Labeling
- Law
- Liens
- Lobbying
- Marketing of farm produce
- Meat inspection
- Mediation
- Milk
- Minorities
- Minority business enterprises
- Monopolies
- Nutrition
- Oilseeds
- Patents
- Poor
- Pork
- Price discrimination
- Produce trade
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Recruiting of employees
- Restrictive trade practices
- Rice
- Rural economic development
- School lunch program
- Seeds
- Sheep
- Small farms
- Social Welfare
- Soil conservation
- Stocks
- Storage
- Subsidiary corporations
- Trademarks
- Venture capital
- Wheat

Alternate Title(s) of Bill S 20

Securing a Future for Independent Agriculture Act of 2001
A bill to enhance fair and open competition in the production and sale of agricultural commodities, and for other purposes.
Securing a Future for Independent Agriculture Act of 2001
National Rural Cooperative and Business Equity Fund Act

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