SWEET Act

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.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3705 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3705

 To repeal the sugar program under the Federal Agriculture Improvement 
 and Reform Act of 1996 and certain other programs relating to sugar, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 11, 2019

    Mr. Perry (for himself, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Joyce of 
Pennsylvania, and Mr. Smucker) introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To repeal the sugar program under the Federal Agriculture Improvement 
 and Reform Act of 1996 and certain other programs relating to sugar, 
                        and for other purposes.

    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 ``Saving Workers by Eliminating 
Economic Tampering Act'' or the ``SWEET Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF SUGAR PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Section 156 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement 
and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7272) is repealed.
    (b) Flexible Marketing Allotments for Sugar and Tariff Rate 
Quotas.--Part VII of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 
1359aa et seq.) is repealed.
    (c) Feedstock Flexibility Program.--Section 9010 of the Farm 
Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8110) is repealed.
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