S. 1888 (112th): Growing Opportunities for Agriculture and Responding to Markets Act of 2011

Introduced:
Nov 17, 2011 (112th Congress, 2011–2013)
Sponsor:
Sen. Robert “Bob” Casey Jr. [D-PA]
Status:
Died (Referred to Committee)
See Instead:
This bill was re-introduced as S. 678 on Apr 09, 2013. See S. 678 for current action on this subject.

The bill’s title was written by the bill’s sponsor. S. stands for Senate bill.

(About Ads | Advertise Here)
Status

This bill was introduced on November 17, 2011, in a previous session of Congress, but was not enacted.

Progress
Introduced Nov 17, 2011
Referred to Committee Nov 17, 2011
Cosponsors
1 cosponsors (1D) (show)
Committees

Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

The committee chair determines whether a bill will move past the committee stage.

Full Title

A bill to amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to establish a program to provide loans for local farms, ranches, and market gardens to improve public health and nutrition, reduce energy consumption, and for other purposes.

Summary

No summaries available.

Text

Read Bill Text »

Last updated Nov 17, 2011.
21 pages

Primary Source

View on THOMAS (The Library of Congress)

GovTrack gets most information from THOMAS, which is updated generally one day after events occur. Activity since the last update may not be reflected here.

Citation

Click a format for a citation suggestion:

GovTrack’s Bill Summary

We don’t have a summary available yet.

Library of Congress Summary

The summary below was written by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division of the Library of Congress.

11/17/2011--Introduced.
Growing Opportunities for Agriculture and Responding to Markets Act of 2011 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a local farm business and market garden loan program to make available to eligible lending entities loans to develop revolving loan funds to assist:
(1) producers in establishing local farm business projects or market garden projects that will produce fresh foods locally, and
(2) local farm business projects and market garden projects to create local employment opportunities.
Sets forth program provisions.

House Republican Conference Summary

The summary below was written by the House Republican Conference, which is the caucus of Republicans in the House of Representatives.

No summary available.

House Democratic Caucus Summary

The House Democratic Caucus does not provide summaries of bills.

So, yes, we display the House Republican Conference’s summaries when available even if we do not have a Democratic summary available. That’s because we feel it is better to give you as much information as possible, even if we cannot provide every viewpoint.

We’ll be looking for a source of summaries from the other side in the meanwhile.

The bill contains the following citations to other parts of U.S. law:

Slip Laws

Slip laws refer to enacted bills and joint resolutions in their original form as enacted by Congress, that is, before other laws amend them. Slip laws are cited as “Public Law XXX-YYY”, where XXX is the number of the Congress in which the bill or resolution was introduced.

  • Public Law 108-465
  • Public Law 110-246

United States Code

The United States Code is the compilation of permanent laws enacted by Congress. Temporary and other non-permanent laws do not appear in the United States Code. (About half of the United States Code is the law itself, called positive law. The other half is merely a compilation of the laws but has no legal significance.)

Statutes at Large

The United States Statutes at Large is the compilation of all laws enacted by Congress.

  • 122 Stat. 2111