Stop Taxpayer-Funded Alcohol Marketing Act

Stop Taxpayer-Funded Alcohol Marketing Act

This bill amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to prohibit the Department of Agriculture (USDA) from awarding value-added agricultural product market development grants to support the marketing of beer, wine, distilled spirits, hard cider, or other alcohol products. The bill also rescinds $8 million of the unobligated funds that were previously provided to USDA for the grants.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2731 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2731

To amend the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to eliminate the 
     authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to make value-added 
     agricultural product market development grants to support the 
  development, production, or marketing of alcoholic beverages and to 
   rescind a portion of the Commodity Credit Corporation funds made 
                       available for such grants.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 25, 2017

 Mr. Russell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to eliminate the 
     authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to make value-added 
     agricultural product market development grants to support the 
  development, production, or marketing of alcoholic beverages and to 
   rescind a portion of the Commodity Credit Corporation funds made 
                       available for such grants.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stop Taxpayer-Funded Alcohol 
Marketing Act''.

SEC. 2. VALUE-ADDED AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT MARKET DEVELOPMENT GRANTS.

    (a) Exclusion of Alcohol Products From Definition.--Section 
231(a)(5) of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (7 U.S.C. 
1632a(a)(5)) is amended by adding below subparagraph (B) the following:
        ``The term `value-added agricultural product' does not include 
        beer, wine, distilled spirits, hard cider, or other alcohol 
        product.''.
    (b) Rescission.--Of the funds made available under section 
231(b)(7)(A) of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (7 U.S.C. 
1632a(b)(7)(A)) to the Secretary of Agriculture to make value-added 
agricultural product market development grants and unobligated as of 
the date of the enactment of this Act, $8,000,000 is hereby rescinded.
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