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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · S. 5335 (Introduced in Senate) — To provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture throug... · Sec. 1301

Sec. 1301. Sugar policy

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Section 156(a) of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 ( 7 U.S.C. 7272(a) ) is amended— in paragraph (4), by striking and at the end; in paragraph (5), by striking 2023 crop years. and inserting 2024 crop years; and ; and by adding at the end the following: 24.0 cents per pound for raw cane sugar for each of the 2025 through 2029 crop years. . Section 156(b) of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 ( 7 U.S.C. 7272(b) ) is amended— in paragraph (1), by striking and at the end; in paragraph (2), by striking 2023 crop years. and inserting 2024 crop years; and ; and by adding at the end the following: a rate that is equal to 136.5 percent of the loan rate per pound of raw cane sugar for the applicable crop year under subsection
(a)for each of the 2025 through 2029 crop years. . Section 156(i) of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 ( 7 U.S.C. 7272(i) ) is amended by striking 2023 and inserting 2029 . Section 167 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 ( 7 U.S.C. 7287 ) is amended— by striking subsection
(a)and inserting the following: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the 2025 crop year and each crop year thereafter, the Commodity Credit Corporation shall establish rates for the storage of forfeited sugar in an amount that is not less than— in the case of refined sugar, 34 cents per hundredweight per month; and in the case of raw cane sugar, 27 cents per hundredweight per month. ; and in subsection (b)— in the subsection heading, by striking and inserting Subsequent ; and Prior by striking and subsequent and inserting through 2024 . Section 359b(a)(1) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 ( 7 U.S.C. 1359bb(a)(1) ) is amended by striking 2023 and inserting 2029 . Section 359c(g)(2) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 ( 7 U.S.C. 1359cc(g)(2) ) is amended— by striking In the case and inserting the following: Except as provided in subparagraph (B), in the case ; and by adding at the end the following: If the Secretary makes an upward adjustment under paragraph (1)(A), in adjusting allocations among beet sugar processors, the Secretary shall give priority to beet sugar processors with available sugar. . Section 359e(b)(2) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 ( 7 U.S.C. 1359ee(b)(2) ) is amended— by redesignating subparagraphs
(A)through
(C)as clauses
(i)through (iii), respectively, and indenting appropriately; in the matter preceding clause
(i)(as so redesignated), by striking If the Secretary and inserting the following: If the Secretary ; and by adding at the end the following: In carrying out subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall— make an initial determination following publication of the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates approved by the World Agricultural Outlook Board for January that shall be applicable to the crop year for which allotments are required; and provide for any reassignment under subparagraph (A)(i) not later than 30 days after the date on which the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates described in clause
(i)is released. . Section 359k of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 ( 7 U.S.C. 1359kk ) is amended— in subsection (b)(1)— by redesignating subparagraphs
(A)and
(B)as clauses
(i)and (ii), respectively, and indenting appropriately; and in the matter preceding clause
(i)(as so redesignated), by striking Before April 1 and inserting the following: Except as provided in subparagraph (B), notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall not increase the tariff-rate quota for raw cane sugar before April 1 of each fiscal year. Before April 1 ; and by adding at the end the following: Subject to paragraph (2), before March 1 of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall reallocate any forecasted shortfall in the fulfillment of the tariff-rate quotas for raw cane sugar established under subsection (a)(1) for the fiscal year. Paragraph
(1)shall cease to be in effect if— the Agreement Suspending the Countervailing Duty Investigation on Sugar from Mexico, signed December 19, 2014, is terminated; and no countervailing duty order under subtitle A of title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 ( 19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq. ) is in effect with respect to sugar from Mexico. . Section 359l(a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 ( 7 U.S.C. 1359ll(a) ) is amended by striking 2023 and inserting 2029 .
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