United States Specialty Crop Export Opportunities Act of 2007

To provide for assistance to United States exporters of certain fruits and vegetables in order to ensure better access to foreign markets.

3/27/2007--Introduced.
United States Specialty Crop Export Opportunities Act of 2007 - Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to regulate plants, plant products, biological control organisms, and noxious weeds for export purposes. Directs the Secretary to:
(1) coordinate fruit and vegetable market analyses with the private sector and the Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service; and
(2) make publicly available on an Internet website the status of all export petitions and an explanation of the sanitary or phytosanitary issues associated with each pending export petition, and information on the import requirements of foreign countries for fruits and vegetables. Amends the Homeland Security Act to repeal the transfer of agricultural import and entry inspection functions from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Directs the Secretary to establish:
(1) within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service the international agricultural inspection program to carry out import and entry agricultural inspections;
(2) a federal-state agricultural inspection communications system;
(3) the International Trade Inspection Advisory Committee; and
(4) a special export credit guarantee program. Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to extend:
(1) the promotion of agricultural exports to emerging markets program; and
(2) the E. (Kika) de la Garza Agricultural Fellowship program.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Devin Nunes [R, CA-21]
• and 1 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. C. Thompson [D, CA-1]
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Committees

• House Agriculture
• 7 more
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Homeland Security
  • House Agriculture
  • House Agriculture
  • House Agriculture
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Homeland Security
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.1706

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
March 27, 2007

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• May 04, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
• May 04, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
• May 04, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
• Apr 13, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
• Apr 10, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
• Mar 28, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E654-655)
• Mar 27, 2007: Referred to House Agriculture
• Introduced on Mar 27, 2007.
• Mar 27, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• Mar 27, 2007: Referred to House Homeland Security
• Mar 27, 2007: Referred to House Ways and Means

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• Agriculture
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