97th Congress > House > Vote 260

Date: 1981-10-22

Result: 147-251

Vote Subject Matter: Social Welfare / Budget Special Interest

Sponsor: WALKER, Robert Smith (R-PA)

Bill number: HR3603

Description: TO AMEND H.R. 3603, BY REQUIRING MOST FOOD STAMP RECIPIENTS TO PAY FOR A PORTION OF THEIR STAMPS. (MOTION FAILED)

Bill summary: (Measure passed House, amended) Food and Agriculture Act of 1981 - Title I: Dairy Production Act of 1981 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to establish milk price supports for: (1) the period through fiscal year 1982 at not less than $13.10 per hundredweight for milk with 3.67 percent milk fat; (2) fiscal year 1983 at not less than 72.5 percent of parity; and (3) fiscal years 1984-1985 at between 70-75 percent of parity. Extends (...show more) dairy base plan authority. Extends through 1985: (1) the program of price-supported dairy products for the military and veterans' hospitals; and (2) the dairy indemnity program. Encourages wider consumption of dairy products through export promotion and domestic distribution. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to explore domestic casein production possibilities and report to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees within 90 days. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress within one year regarding regional food security aspects of the dairy support program and milk marketing orders. Authorizes the Secretary to sell specified dairy and milk products to the Soviet Union. Title II: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to extend the wool and mohair price support program through 1985. Title III: Wheat - Provides for loans and purchases of the: (1) wheat crop at not less than $3.55 per bushel; and (2) 1983-1985 crops at levels adjusted proportionally to the target price of wheat. Stipulates that the Secretary may adjust levels downward by up to ten percent (but not less than $3.00 per bushel) whenever the yearly price for the previous year is not more than 105 percent of the current loan and purchase level. Requires the Secretary to provide producers with the same return they would have received if such loan reductions occur. Authorizes a target price program for the 1982-1985 crops. Makes such payments mandatory if domestic carryover levels exceed 1,000,000,000 bushels. Sets such price for the: (1) 1982 crop at $4.20 per bushel; and (2) 1983-1985 crops at a level based on production costs over a specified time. Authorizes prevented planting and low yield disaster programs for the 1982-1985 crops only if Federal crop insurance was not generally available prior to planting. Requires the Secretary to provide for a 15 percent set-aside (with a five percent loan rate increase) if it is determined that there will be a domestic carryover in excess of six percent of world usage. Authorizes up to a 30 percent set-aside at the producer's option. Permits set-aside acreage to be planted in hay or for grazing. Requires set-asides to be announced by August 1 of each year. Suspends marketing quota and producer certificate provisions. Limits set-asides in areas where summer fallow practices have been in effect for three of the past five years. Title IV: Feed Grains - Provides for loans and purchases of: (1) the 1982 corn crop at not less than $2.65 per bushel; and (2) the 1983-1985 crops based on target price adjustments. Stipulates that such levels may be adjusted downward by up to ten percent (but not less than $2.00 per bushel) if the yearly price for the previous year is not more than 105 percent of the current loan and purchase level. Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 grain sorghum, barley, and rye crops at a level based on the loan level for corn. Bases 1982-1985 oats levels on a weight comparison with other grains. Authorizes target prices for grain sorghum and corn. Makes such prices mandatory if domestic carryover exceeds 1,300,000,000 bushels. Sets the target price for: (1) the 1982 corn crop at $2.90 per bushel; (2) the 1983-1985 corn crops at a level based on production cost changes; and (3) grain sorghum, oats, and barley at a level based on corn payments. Authorizes disaster payments for the 1982 feed grain crops only if Federal crop insurance was not generally available prior to planting. Directs the Secretary to establish a corn set-aside of at least 15 percent (with a five percent loan rate increase) when carryover supplies of corn exceed 18 percent of the previous year's usage. Allows a producer to opt for up to a 25 percent set-aside. Requires such set-asides to be announced by November 1. Title V: Upland Cotton - Suspends marketing quotas, base acreage allotments, and related provisions for the 1982-1985 upland cotton crops. Provides with regard to such crops that: (1) the minimum loan level shall be $55 per pound (currently $.48 per pound); (2) the base for the Northern European price quotation used to determine the loan rate shall be middling 1 3/32 inch cotton (currently strict middling 1 1/16 inch); (3) the target price shall be 120 percent of the loan level; (4) disaster payments shall be available in counties without generally available Federal crop insurance; (5) cotton acreage reductions could be required as a condition for program benefits instead of current set-aside authority; and (6) the Secretary would be required to establish a seed cotton recourse loan program. Extends skiprow provisions through 1985. Bases the preliminary allotment for the 1986 crop on the permanent (as adjusted) 1977 acreage allotment. Extends cotton price supports to extra long staple cotton. Title VI: Rice - Repeals acreage allotment and marketing quota provisions effective with the 1982 rice crop. Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 rice crops at not less than $8.00 per hundredweight. Bases target prices on production costs. Makes disaster payments available only in counties where Federal crop insurance was not generally available prior to planting. Extends: (1) set-asides but authorizes the Secretary to limit acreage as a condition of benefits eligibility; and (2) land diversion programs. Requires the Secretary to report by July 31, 1981, to the Congress on rice futures trading, including the feasibility of using the average seasonal price received by farmers as a basis for computing loan and target prices. Title VII: Peanuts - Replaces the current peanut acreage allotment and poundage quota provisions with a loan support program beginning with the 1982 crop. Title VIII: Soybeans - Establishes the soybean price support program under the category of "basic agricultural commodity" for the 1982-1985 crop years. Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 soybean crops at not less than $5.02 per bushel. Authorizes the Secretary to lower such level ten percent each year (but not below $4.50 per bushel) if the previous year's average market price was not in excess of 105 percent of the loan rate for that year. States that soybeans are ineligible for the producer storage reserve program and the production adjustment control program. Title IX: General and Miscellaneous Commodity Provisions - Continues current disaster and nondisaster payment limitations for wheat, feed grains, rice, and upland cotton through 1985. Continues and modifies the producer storage program for wheat and feed grains as follows: (1) provides an entry loan rate for grains at the higher of 110 percent of the loan rate or $3.85 per bushel for wheat and $2.80 per bushel for corn; (2) provides a minimum resale price for Commodity Credit Corporation stocks at 105 percent of the price levels at which the market rate interest rates are invoked; (3) authorizes the Secretary to waive storage changes and interest on support loans, to vary the size of the reserve, and to cancel early-release penalties, halt storage payments and impose market rate interest under specified circumstances. Extends the special grazing and hay program through 1985. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide for set-asides for the 1982-1985 wheat and feed grain crops as a result of executive export restrictions; and (2) reduce accumulated interest charges on Commodity Credit Corporation loans in order to discourage loan defaults. Makes the currently mandatory emergency feed program discretionary. Continues normally planted acreage requirements for the 1982-1985 wheat and feed grain crops (but not for rice and upland cotton) but bases such acreage on the preceding two years. Amends the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act to increase license fee ceilings and the level of damages needed to entitle a respondent to an oral hearing. Increases the level of license-exempt retail purchases and brokers' sales. Amends the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 to authorize the release of bee germ plasm to the public. Requires free distribution of surplus commodities to nutritional programs for children, the elderly, and the needy. Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to establish in the Treasury a Commodity Credit Corporation Revolving Fund for Export Market Development and Expansion. Requires the Secretary to report annually to Congress regarding the Commodity Credit Corporation's use of such funds in carrying out export credit sales. Authorizes appropriations. Abolishes the Fund effective October 1, 1985. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to permit county Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service committees to forgive certain minor commodity loan violations. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to subject nonquota Maryland tobacco to marketing quotas in certain tobacco-producing areas. States that it is Congress' intent that the tobacco price support and production control program be carried out without public cost except for incidental administrative costs. Directs the Secretary to promulgate relevant regulations and recommend legislative changes to Congress by January 1, 1982. Amends the Federal Plant Pest Act to authorize the Secretary to take emergency action against new plant pests in the United States. Requires the Secretary to notify the Governor of an affected State before taking any action. Authorizes the Secretary to pay appropriate compensation. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish a loan support program for the 1982-1985 oil sunflower seed crops. Sets the minimum support price at $8 per hundredweight. Title X: National Agricultural Cost of Production Standards Review Board - Establishes the National Agricultural Cost of Production Standards Review Board. Requires the Board to report annually to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees. Authorizes appropriations. Makes the authority provided in this title applicable for the 1982-1985 crop years. Title XI: Export Provisions - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480) to: (1) extend the program through December 31, 1985; (2) increase the annual ceiling; and (3) include other alcoholic beverages in addition to wine and beer within the authorization for overseas market development. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to require the loan rate to be set at 90 percent of parity for any executive embargo not based on national security, and at a level not less than the average market price during the 15 days preceding the embargo if based solely on national security. Exempts commodities if an embargo would reduce annual export tonnage by less than two percent. Waives interest charges on loans adjusted during an embargo and provides for payment of storage charges to producers. Directs the Secretary to report within six months to the Congress on the potential for increased food use of protein byproducts derived from alcohol fuel production. Expresses the sense of Congress that any agreement by the United States for foreign sales of wheat, corn, soybeans, or feed grains provide for a price of not less than the cost of production. Expresses the sense of the Congress that any company exporting wheat or feed grain shall not buy these commodities at less than their fair market value. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of alternative export grain marketing. Requires a report to the Congress by January 1, 1983. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to establish the export market price as a reimbursement ceiling for Food for Peace commodities. Requires Food for Peace agreements to be more specific regarding their agricultural self-help measures and how they will benefit the poor. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should take further steps to develop international markets for U.S. commodities. Requires congressional review of export agreements valued at more than $5,000,000 and for which the value to be received is less than 85 percent of the world market price. Title XII: Food Stamp and Commodity Distribution Amendments of 1981 - Food Stamp and Commodity Distribution Amendments of 1981 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 and the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to extend such programs through fiscal year 1985. Modifies the food stamp plan to: (1) delay the Thrifty Food Plan adjustment until October 1982; (2) impose an authorization ceiling for fiscal years 1982, 1983, 1984, and 1985 fixed at $11,300,000,000, $11,170,000,000, $11,115,000,000, and $11,305,000,000, respectively; (3) require the Secretary to permit any political subdivision that wishes to do so in return for a 50 percent share of workfare administrative costs and that agrees to comply with the Secretary's guidelines, to administer a workfare program in which non-exempt food stamp recipients must work for the subdivision at the Federal minimum hourly wage rate (or State rate, if higher), payable in the form of food stamps; (4) require parents and children who are living together to be treated as one household unless one parent is 60 years of age or older or is disabled and receiving other assistance; (5) eliminate establishments that do only a marginal staple food business, such as bars, gas stations, party stores, and carryout shops, from the program unless they are the only food store in the immediate area; (6) permit Alaska to have a distinct Thrifty Food Plan for its rural areas; (7) deny deductions for any expenses paid on a household's behalf by a third party and require the income and resources (over a floor) of sponsors of certain aliens to be deemed available to those aliens in order to determine the aliens' eligibility and benefits; (8) give the Secretary flexibility to alter the complex accounting standards for ascertaining the value of licensed vehicles; (9) (a) extend program disqualification for voluntarily quitting a job to current program participants, (b) extend sanctions for noncompliance with food stamp work registration requirements to food stamp participants who fail to satisfy an AFDC-WIN or unemployment compensation work requirement, and (c) make work registration an annual requirement; (10) make States strictly liable for issuance losses and provide liability for negligent failures in certain other areas of State agency administrative responsibility; (11) end the 60-day transfer provision permitting benefits to follow a household moving from one political subdivision to another in an uninterrupted fashion; (12) allow States flexibility to provide households with a notice of expiration of their certification periods up to 30 days before the start of the last month of a six month or longer certification period; (13) limit provision for expedited food stamp benefits within three working days of application to applicant households with $150 or less in gross income a month and liquid assets of $100 or less and to applicant households whose only income for ten days after filing an application is $25 or less from a new source of income and who also meet the $100 liquid assets test; (14) end the Department's liability to restore food stamps to households that have wrongfully been denied them or terminated from the program if the benefits were lost more than one year prior to a household's request for restoration; (15) require the State agency to request and utilize for certification purposes household members' wage and benefit information available from the Social Security Administration and State unemployment compensation agencies; (16) require the Secretary to allow political subdivisions to use certified mail in issuing food stamps to reduce mail theft and loss; (17) end the imposition of staffing standards upon the States; (18) require States to meet the Secretary's standard for improper denials and terminations in order to receive 55 percent Federal funding of administrative costs and further require all States with error rates over five percent to develop corrective action plans; (19) mandate obtaining a household's Social Security number as a prerequisite to participation; (20) extend pilot cash-out projects for four years at State option and expand possible cash-outs to include AFDC families; (21) provide contract and grant authority to develop means for continuous nutritional monitoring of high-risk populations; (22) require certain studies of retrospective accounting and periodic reporting methods; (23) provide penalties for the fraudulent misuse of commodities; (24) provide authority for pilot projects using the commodity supplemental feed program for low-income elderly persons; (25) authorize certain employees of the Office of the Inspector General to conduct certain law enforcement functions, including making warrantless arrests and carrying firearms; (26) provide for a first endorser liability for food stamp issuers; (27) exclude low-income energy assistance from eligibility determinations; (28) permit food retailers to redeem food stamps in savings and loan institutions; (29) permit Indians not living on reservations to receive food stamps; (30) exclude AFDC assistance for work-related and child care expenses as a reimbursement in the food stamp program; (31) authorize pilot projects to simplify application processing for certain AFDC, SSI and Medicaid recipients; (32) permit General Accounting Office audit access to Federal and State food stamp records; (33) require reporting of abuses through retail store notices, application notice, recipient information disclosures; and (34) minimum court sentencing for criminal violations of such Act. Title XIII: National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1981 - National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1981 - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to revise the Congressional findings and purposes of such Act to give greater emphasis to the role of State agricultural extension services in research and teaching in the food and agricultural sciences. Extends from five to eight years the term of the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences. Increases membership to at least 25 persons. Establishes three-year, staggered membership terms. Extends from five to eight years the term of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board. Increases membership from 21 to 25 persons. Establishes staggered terms for such members. Changes the due date of the Board's: (1) annual recommendations to the Secretary from October 31 to July 1; and (2) appraisal of the President's budget from March 1 to February 20. Specifies as part of the staff of six full-time professionals assisting the Joint Council and the Users Advisory Board: (1) an executive secretary for each entity; and (2) an executive director to serve both. Authorizes the Secretary to establish cooperative human nutrition centers to focus on high-priority nutrition problems. Changes the due date of the Secretary's annual agricultural research report from February 1 to January 1. States that the Department of Agriculture should establish working relationships with foreign information and data systems. Provides for the appointment of an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture to carry out agricultural research, extension, and teaching. Authorizes specified appropriations through fiscal year 1985 for competitive agricultural research grants. Makes land grant college research foundations and veterinary colleges eligible for special grants. Changes the emphasis of facilities grants from purchasing equipment, land, and supplies to renovating existing buildings and limited new construction. Makes forestry schools and 1890 land grant colleges eligible for such grants. Authorizes specified appropriations for research facilities grants for fiscal years 1982-1985. Revises guidelines for higher education food and agricultural sciences grants. Transfers functions of the Secretary of Education under the Bankhead-Jones Act and the Morrill Act to the Secretary. Authorizes specified appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1985. Extends the research grant program in alcohol fuels and industrial hydrocarbons through fiscal year 1985. Limits the total amount institutions in any one State may receive to $5,000,000. Changes the due date of the assessment of the value and costs of food and human nutrition research centers. Requires the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and of Agriculture to jointly formulate such report. Extends limited authorizations of appropriations ($25,000,000 annually) through fiscal year 1985 for animal health and disease research. Increases and extends through fiscal year 1985 the annual limit on authorizations of appropriations for national and regional animal health and disease research. Limits the duration of such grants to five years. Directs the Secretary to annually establish priority lists for these grants. Sets forth guidelines for such determinations. Extends and increases funding for 1890 land grant colleges (including Tuskegee Institute) through fiscal year 1982. Permits administrative funds to be used for transportation to research meetings of scientists who are not Federal employees. Establishes a dairy goat research program. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1985. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance (on a reimbursable basis) to U.S. institutions involved in international agricultural research and extension. Authorizes specified appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1985 for: (1) existing agricultural programs; (2) State agricultural experiment stations; and (3) extension education. Requires at least 25 percent of research and grant funds to be appropriated for Hatch Act State experiment stations beginning with fiscal year 1984. Provides that funds made available by the Secretary under specified Acts shall not be subject to reduction for indirect costs incurred by the recipient. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) establish an aquaculture research and extension program; (2) make grants to colleges and universities, federal laboratories, and experiment stations; and (3) assist States (up to $50,000) in formulating aquaculture development plans. Directs the Secretary to: (1) report annually to the President and to the House and Senate Committees on Agriculture and Appropriations; and (2) establish an Aquaculture Advisory Board. Authorizes specified appropriations through fiscal year 1985. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) establish a rangeland research program on a matching grant basis; and (2) make grants to colleges and universities, Federal laboratories, and experiment stations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) report annually to the President and to the House and Senate Committees on Agriculture and Appropriations; and (2) establish a Rangeland Advisory Board. Authorizes appropriations not to exceed $10,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1982-1985. Amends the McIntire-Stennis Act of 1962 to direct the Secretary to appoint an advisory forestry council. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to permit the Secretary to furnish excess Federal property to State or county extension services, 1890 land grant colleges, and State experiment stations. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1986 for upgrading 1890 land grant college research facilities. Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to eliminate a requirement that half of any funding for new veterinary school construction be made available for existing schools. Eliminates the requirement that State extension plans must be submitted by the State director of the cooperative extension service. Title XIV: Credit, Rural Development, and Family Farms - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit cooperatives to receive Farmers Home Administration (FHA) loans if unable to otherwise get credit. Requires loan applicants to furnish written net worth statements. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the congressional agriculture committees comparisons of the characteristics of limited resource borrowers and other borrowers. Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to extend the FHA economic emergency loan program through fiscal year 1982. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to limit the facility loans program to areas where there is a deficiency of such storage, at the secretary's discretion. Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to: (1) extend for ten years and increase the annual authorization of appropriatons for U.S. class A stock purchases of the Rural Telephone Bank; and (2) change the date for retiring stock previously purchased by the United States from September 30, 1985 until September 30, 1995. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to require the Secretary to include in his annual report to Congress an assessment of how: (1) Federal tax, credit, and other laws affect the growth of nonfamily farm operations; and (2) commodity price support reductions affect family farm structure. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit the Secretary to approve certain long-term leases between Farmers Home Administration loan recipients and third-parties. Title XV: Conservation - Directs the Secretary to establish a program to provide increased financial and technical assistance to landowners and operators in the most seriously eroding areas of the country, as designated by the Secretary. Requires a participant to furnish a plan which: (1) incorporates erosion conservation measures; (2) includes a schedule for carrying out such measures; (3) considers local conditions; (4) allows for varying the levels of application as appropriate; (5) may include wildlife and recreation enhancement; and (6) is to be developed in cooperation with, and approved by, the local soil and water conservation district. Requires: (1) a participant to forfeit further payments and reimburse the United States for payments received upon violation of the agreement; and (2) the Secretary to share the cost of such conservation measures. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts to maintain already established conservation measures. Sets forth guidelines for special area determinations. Authorizes such designations for ten-year periods. Provides that contracts may not exceed ten years in duration and may be entered into for ten years following such a designation. Requires approval by the House and Senate Agriculture Committees of all project areas designated by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to any State having lands within a designated special area to evaluate the impact of State and local tax structures on conservation measures. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Requires the Secretary to submit an evaluation to Congress by January 1, 1986, and at five-year intervals thereafter. Directs the Secretary to establish a matching grant program with local governmental units through State soil conservation agencies. Requires local participants to: (1) have a long-range program in effect; (2) have an annual work plan consistent with such program in effect; and (3) have matching fund sources available. Authorizes necessary appropriations through fiscal year 1991. Requires the Secretary to report to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees by January 1, 1986, and again by January 1, 1991. States that such grants shall be made to augment rather than replace other Department of Agriculture technical and financial assistance programs. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to direct the Corporation, beginning with fiscal year 1982, to make loans for natural resource conservation and environmental specified county and State conservation committees as part of an overall local plan. Provides with regard to such loans that: (1) loan duration shall not exceed ten years, with interest rates based upon interest charged to the Corporation by the Treasury; (2) annual loans to an individual shall not exceed $25,000; and (3) loans over $10,000 must be secured. Directs the Secretary to establish a Department volunteer program without regard to Civil Service requirements. Deems such volunteers to be Federal employees for purposes of injury and tort compensation. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a program to test the feasibility of reducing excessive reservoir sedimentation in areas having watershed soil erosion problems. Requires approval by the House and Senate Agricultural committees before implementing any program. Authorizes necessary appropriations for fiscal years years 1983-1987. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress by January 1, 1987. Authorizes the Secretary to empower soil and water district boards to disapprove producers' designation of land under any set-aside or diversion program if such lands will make a less than average contribution to conservation compared with other lands that could have been so designated. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to owners and operators in certain cold climates who remove land from production for up to one year in order to install conservation measures involving excavation. Requires approval of local soil and water conservation boards. Prohibits such assistance in any one year of more than one-half of one percent of a county's cropland. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Agricultural Land Resources Policy Act - Directs the Department of Agriculture in connection with other Federal agencies to develop: (1) a farmland protection policy; and (2) criteria for identifying the effect of Federal programs on the conversion of farmland to nonagricultural uses. Requires the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees within one year. Encourages the Secretary to provide technical assistance to State, local, and nonprofit entities seeking to limit such conversion. Directs the Secretary to develop agricultural land resource information. Declares that rural areas are facing resource utilization, economic, and social problems. Directs the Secretary to establish a resource conservation and development program of technical and financial assistance to States, local governmental units, and nonprofit organizations for rural planning. Sets forth the terms of such agreements. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress by December 31, 1986. Directs the Secretary to establish a Resource Conservation Development Policy Board. Title XVI: Continuation of Federal Crop Insurance Pilot Programs - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1980 to continue through 1985 the pilot program of making Federal crop insurance available through selected county Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service offices. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress by February 1, 1985. Title XVII: Conference - Requests the President to call a White House Conference on Agriculture within one year. Title XVIII: Imported Meat - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to prohibit meat from being imported into the United States: (1) unless it has been inspected under the same standards as apply to domestic meat; and (2) if such meat has been produced using chemicals or drugs banned in the production of domestic meat. Title XIX: User Fees for Reports and Publications - Authorizes the Secretary to charge user fees for reports and publications.

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Bill titles: A bill to provide price and income protection for farmers, assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, continue food assistance to low income households, and for other purposes.

Original source documents: Digest of the Congressional Record vol. 151, p. 7615;

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