H.R. 4766 (108th): Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005

Introduced:
Jul 07, 2004 (108th Congress, 2003–2004)
Sponsor:
Rep. Henry Bonilla [R-TX23]
Status:
Died (Passed House)
See Instead:

S. 2803 (same title)
Reported by Committee — Sep 14, 2004

The bill’s title was written by the bill’s sponsor. H.R. stands for House of Representatives bill.

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Status

This bill was introduced in a previous session of Congress and was passed by the House on July 13, 2004 but was never passed by the Senate.

Progress
Introduced Jul 07, 2004
Reported by Committee Jul 07, 2004
Passed House Jul 13, 2004
Votes

On Agreeing to the Amendment: Amendment 5 to H R 4766
Jul 13, 2004 2:37 p.m.
Agreed to 260/160

On Agreeing to the Amendment: Amendment 7 to H R 4766
Jul 13, 2004 2:45 p.m.
Agreed to 223/197

On Agreeing to the Amendment: Amendment 12 to H R 4766
Jul 13, 2004 6:08 p.m.
Failed 205/209

On Agreeing to the Amendment: Amendment 13 to H R 4766
Jul 13, 2004 6:16 p.m.
Failed 156/262

On Agreeing to the Amendment: Amendment 14 to H R 4766
Jul 13, 2004 6:25 p.m.
Failed 72/347

On Agreeing to the Amendment: Amendment 20 to H R 4766
Jul 13, 2004 6:33 p.m.
Failed 206/213

House Vote on Passage
Jul 13, 2004 6:56 p.m.
Passed 389/31

Cosponsors
none
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House Appropriations

Senate Appropriations

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Full Title

Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.

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Last updated Jul 14, 2004.
83 pages

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7/13/2004.
Title I - Agricultural Programs
Appropriates FY 2005 funds for the following Department of Agriculture (Department) programs and services:
(1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary);
(2) executive operations;
(3) Homeland Security Staff;
(4) Office of the Chief Information Officer;
(5) Common Computing Environment;
(6) Office of the Chief Financial Officer;
(7) working capital fund;
(8) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights;
(9) Office of Civil Rights;
(10) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration;
(11) agriculture buildings and facilities and rental payments;
(12) hazardous materials management;
(13) departmental administration;
(14) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations;
(15) Office of Communications;
(16) Office of the Inspector General;
(17) Office of the General Counsel;
(18) Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics;
(19) Economic Research Service;
(20) National Agricultural Statistics Service;
(21) Agricultural Research Service;
(22) Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service;
(23) Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs;
(24) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service;
(25) Agricultural Marketing Service;
(26) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration;
(27) Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety;
(28) Food Safety and Inspection Service;
(29) Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services;
(30) Farm Service Agency;
(31) Risk Management Agency;
(32) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund; and
(33) Commodity Credit Corporation Fund.
Title II - Conservation Programs
Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment; and (2) Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Title III - Rural Development Programs
Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development; (2) rural development salaries and expenses; (3) Rural Housing Service; (4) Rural Business-Cooperative Service; and (5) Rural Utilities Service.
Title IV - Domestic Food Programs
Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services; and (2) Food and Nutrition Service.
Title V - Foreign Assistance and Related Programs
Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Foreign Agricultural Service; (2) P.L. 480 program account, title I ocean freight differential grants, and title II grants; (3) McGovern-Dole international food for education and child nutrition program grants; and (4) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) export loans program account.
Title VI - Related Agencies and Food and Drug Administration
Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Food and Drug Administration; (2) Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (3) Farm Credit Administration.
Title VII - General Provisions
Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act.
Section 709 -
Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to pay indirect costs charged against competitive agricultural research, education, or extension grant awards issued by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service that exceed 25 percent of total Federal funds provided under each award.
Section 714 -
Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel.
Section 718 -
Prohibits fund use for the initiative for future agriculture and food systems, with an exception for administration of prior grants and obligations. Cancels FY 2005 initiative funds.
Section 720 -
Prohibits fund use to relocate a State Rural Development office until cost and operation effectiveness have been determined.
Section 721 -
Makes additional appropriations for Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowships.
Section 722 -
Provides that any balances and recoveries available to carry out title III of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 may be used to carry out title II of such Act.
Section 723 -
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase obligated funding for the national sheep industry improvement center revolving fund.
Section 724 -
Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to collect from the lender at the time of issuance a guarantee fee of less than two percent of the principal obligation of guaranteed single-family housing loans administered by the Rural Housing Service.
Section 725 -
Considers as eligible for rural development mission area assistance: (1) Salinas, California; (2) Watsonville, California; (3) Hollister, California; (4) Ulster, New York; (5) Cleburne County, Alabama; (6) Coachella, California; (7) Casa Grande, Arizona; (8) Creedmoor, North Carolina; (9) Eureka, California; (10) Clarksdale, Mississippi; (11) Vicksburg, Mississippi; (12) Wewahitchka, Florida; (13) Horseshoe Beach, Florida; and (14) Carbondale, Illinois.
Section 726 -
Directs the Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide financial and technical assistance through the watershed and flood prevention operations program to: (1) the DuPage County, Illinois, Kress Creek Watershed Plan; and (2) Rockhouse Creek Watershed, Leslie County, Kentucky.
Section 727 -
Prohibits funds under this Act from being transferred to any Federal entity unless authorized by an appropriations Act.
Section 728 -
Authorizes the Secretary to use up to 20 percent of competitive research funds under this Act for a competitive grants program similar to the initiative for future agriculture and food systems.
Section 729 -
Prohibits fund use to: (1) carry out CCC-funded rehabilitation of certain dams; (2) carry out the rural strategic investment program under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act; and (3) carry out the rural firefighters and emergency personnel grant program.
Section 732 -
States that the Agricultural Marketing Service and the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration shall not be required to establish obligations and outlays for purchases of interest bearing investments outside of the Treasury under specified circumstances.
Section 733 -
Authorizes the Secretary to use specified food stamp funds for commodity processing, storage, transporting, and distribution.
Section 734 -
Limits: (1) wetlands reserve program enrollment acreage for 2005; and (2) funds for the environmental quality incentives program.
Section 736 -
Authorizes the Secretary to permit Department employees to carry and use firearms for personal protection in remote locations in the performance of their official duties.
Section 737 -
Prohibits fund use for renewable energy system and energy efficiency improvements assistance.
Section 738 -
Prohibits fund use for access to broadband telecommunications in rural areas. Cancels specified funds for such use.
Section 739 -
Prohibits fund use to carry out the value-added market development grant program. Cancels specified funds for such use.
Section 740 -
Directs the Secretary, with lender consent, to structure the annual fee payment schedule for rural electrification and telephone bond and loan guarantees so as not to exceed an average of 30 basis points per year for the term of the loan in order to ensure fund availability to pay related subsidy costs.
Section 741 -
Limits fund use for: (1) the conservation security program; (2) the grazing, wildlife habitat incentive, source water protection, and Great Lakes Basin programs; and (3) the farmland protection program.
Section 744 -
Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to commercial citrus and lime growers in Florida for tree replacement and for lost production for certain trees removed to control citrus canker, and for certified citrus nursery stocks within the citrus canker quarantine areas.
Section 745 -
Prohibits fund use to carry out the rural business investment program.
Section 746 -
Prohibits the use of funds under this Act: (1) in violation of PL 105-264 (Travel and Transportation Reform Act of 1998); (2) to revise a proposed rule (July 8, 2003) respecting cost-sharing for animal and plant health emergency programs of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; and (3) without specific congressional authorization, to study or enter into a contract with a private party for competitive sourcing activities relating to rural development or farm loan programs.
Section 749 -
Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative aircraft lease agreements under the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
Section 750 -
Limits fund use for the bioenergy program.
Section 751 -
Amends the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Programs Appropriations, 2004 to make Delta Regional Authority grants available for any rural community advancement program purpose.
Section 752 -
Rescinds specified funds from the: (1) rural housing assistance grant program; and (2) rural housing insurance fund program.
Section 754 -
Makes specified FY 2002 through 2005 conservation program funds under the Food Security Act of 1985 available until expended.
Section 755 -
Prohibits funds available under this Act for the Food and Drug Administration to be used to prevent an individual not in the business of importing a prescription drug, wholesalers, or pharmacists from importing a complying prescription drug.
Section 756 -
Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to include the guarantee fee in the principal obligation determination under the farm housing and farm service buildings loan program.
Section 757 -
Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to rename the John Ogonowski Farmer-to-Farmer program as the John Ogonowski and Doug Bereuter Farmer-to-Farmer program.
Title VIII - Additional General Provisions
Section 801 -
Prohibits funds available under this Act for:
(1) the environmental quality incentives program, the wildlife habitat incentive program, the grassland reserve program, or the farmland protection program to be used to provide technical assistance under the conservation reserve program or under the wetlands reserve program;
(2) the conservation reserve program to be used to provide technical assistance under the wetlands reserve program; and
(3) the wetlands reserve program to be used to provide technical assistance under the conservation reserve program.
Section 802 -
Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to: (1) make tobacco price support or tobacco quota payments; (2) provide agricultural credits or credit guarantees for commodities for use in Iraq in violation of specified credit restrictions under the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978; (3) pay food stamp program administrative costs for operations outside the United States; and (4) restrict to prescription use a contraceptive that has been determined to be safe and effective.
Section 806 -
Prohibits funds available under this Act to the Department to be used to acquire new information technology systems or significant upgrades without the approval of the Chief Information Officer and the concurrence of the Executive Information Technology Investment Review Board.

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  • 76 Stat. 607
  • 114 Stat. 1549A-12

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