H.R. 5680 · 117th Congress
SWEETER Act
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Saving Workers by Eliminating Economic Tampering and Ensuring Reliability Act or the SWEETER Act
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Oct 22, 2021
Saving Workers by Eliminating Economic Tampering and Ensuring Reliability Act or the SWEETER 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.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: SWEETER Act
Also known as: Saving Workers by Eliminating Economic Tampering and Ensuring Reliability Act
Latest action (Nov 3, 2021): Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
Policy area: Agriculture and Food · Origin: House · Introduced: Oct 22, 2021
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.