SWEET Act
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Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in house (Jul 11, 2019)
Saving Workers by Eliminating Economic Tampering Act or the SWEET Act
This bill eliminates certain Department of Agriculture (USDA) sugar subsidy programs.
Specifically, the bill eliminates (1) the price support loan program available to processors of domestically grown sugarcane and sugar beets, (2) the sugar marketing allotments and tariff-rate quotas that limit the quantities of domestically produced sugar that processors may sell and the sugar that may be imported under lower tariff rates, and (3) the feedstock flexibility program for bioenergy producers which operates to avoid loan forfeitures to the USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation by requiring USDA to purchase surplus sugar from domestic processors for resale to bioenergy producers.
What just happenedAug 9, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseJul 11, 2019
- Aug 9, 2019Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit Subcommittee - Jul 11, 2019IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Agriculture Committee - Jul 11, 2019IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Jul 11, 2019IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House