<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<bill>
  <bill-type>s</bill-type>
  <blog-article-count type="integer">11</blog-article-count>
  <hot-bill-category-id type="integer" nil="true"></hot-bill-category-id>
  <id type="integer">46743</id>
  <introduced type="integer">1192507200</introduced>
  <is-frontpage-hot type="boolean">false</is-frontpage-hot>
  <last-speech type="integer" nil="true"></last-speech>
  <last-vote-date type="integer" nil="true"></last-vote-date>
  <last-vote-roll type="integer" nil="true"></last-vote-roll>
  <last-vote-where nil="true"></last-vote-where>
  <lastaction type="integer">1192507200</lastaction>
  <news-article-count type="integer" nil="true"></news-article-count>
  <number type="integer">2167</number>
  <page-views-count type="integer">458</page-views-count>
  <pl nil="true"></pl>
  <plain-language-summary nil="true"></plain-language-summary>
  <rolls nil="true"></rolls>
  <session type="integer">110</session>
  <sponsor-id type="integer">300088</sponsor-id>
  <summary>	10/16/2007--Introduced.&lt;br/&gt;Farm Savings Account Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish tax-exempt farm savings accounts to allow taxpayers engaged in the business of farming or ranching to use distributions from such accounts to offset operational losses in lieu of receiving, after a specified transitional period, federal subsidies to purchase crop insurance; (2) allow a tax deduction for cash contributions to such accounts; (3) specify minimum levels of contributions to, and maximum levels of distributions from, such accounts; (4) require the Secretary of Agriculture to make matching contributions to such accounts; and (5) set forth tax rules relating to account distributions, excess contributions, and prohibited transactions.&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
  <topresident-date type="integer">1192507200</topresident-date>
  <topresident-datetime type="date">2007-10-16</topresident-datetime>
  <updated type="timestamp">Fri Nov 07 16:50:19 -0600 2008</updated>
  <bill-titles type="array">
    <bill-title>
      <as>introduced</as>
      <bill-id type="integer">46743</bill-id>
      <fti-titles>'act':4 '2007':6 'farm':1 'save':2 'account':3</fti-titles>
      <id type="integer">53574</id>
      <is-default type="boolean">false</is-default>
      <title>Farm Savings Account Act of 2007</title>
      <title-type>short</title-type>
    </bill-title>
    <bill-title>
      <as>introduced</as>
      <bill-id type="integer">46743</bill-id>
      <fti-titles>'may':57 'tax':21 '1986':10 'bill':2 'code':8 'crop':32,36 'farm':23 'lieu':27 'paid':59 'save':24 'year':80 'amend':4 'feder':30 'insur':33 'limit':67 'total':69 'amount':56,70 'assist':37 'author':12 'exempt':22 'intern':6 'obtain':29 'produc':14,61,76 'provid':39 'purpos':84 'revenu':7 'situat':53 'subsid':31 'taxabl':79 'account':25,44,64 'specifi':51 'noninsur':35 'contribut':18,41 'distribut':73 'establish':16 'secretari':47 'agricultur':13,49 'tax-exempt':20</fti-titles>
      <id type="integer">52863</id>
      <is-default type="boolean">false</is-default>
      <title>A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to authorize agricultural producers to establish and contribute to tax-exempt farm savings accounts in lieu of obtaining federally subsidized crop insurance or noninsured crop assistance, to provide for contributions to such accounts by the Secretary of Agriculture, to specify the situations in which amounts may be paid to producers from such accounts, and to limit the total amount of such distributions to a producer during a taxable year, and for other purposes.</title>
      <title-type>official</title-type>
    </bill-title>
  </bill-titles>
  <last-action>
    <action-type>action</action-type>
    <amendment-id type="integer" nil="true"></amendment-id>
    <bill-id type="integer">46743</bill-id>
    <created-at type="timestamp" nil="true"></created-at>
    <date type="integer">1192507200</date>
    <datetime type="timestamp">Tue Oct 16 00:00:00 -0500 2007</datetime>
    <how nil="true"></how>
    <id type="integer">132529</id>
    <result nil="true"></result>
    <roll-call-id type="integer" nil="true"></roll-call-id>
    <roll-call-number type="integer" nil="true"></roll-call-number>
    <text>Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.</text>
    <vote-type nil="true"></vote-type>
    <where nil="true"></where>
  </last-action>
  <sponsor>
    <biography nil="true"></biography>
    <bioguideid>S001141</bioguideid>
    <birthday type="date">1946-12-24</birthday>
    <blog-article-count type="integer">3027</blog-article-count>
    <congress-office>335 Russell Senate Office Building</congress-office>
    <contact-webform>http://sessions.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ConstituentServices.ContactMe</contact-webform>
    <district nil="true"></district>
    <email nil="true"></email>
    <fax>202-224-3149</fax>
    <firstname>Jefferson</firstname>
    <fti-names>'r':4 'al':5 'sen':1 'jeff':8 'session':3,7,10 'jefferson':2,6,9</fti-names>
    <gender>M</gender>
    <id type="integer">300088</id>
    <lastname>Sessions</lastname>
    <metavid-id>Jeff_Sessions</metavid-id>
    <middlename>B.</middlename>
    <name>Sen. Jefferson Sessions [R, AL]</name>
    <news-article-count type="integer">1386</news-article-count>
    <nickname>Jeff</nickname>
    <osid>N00003062</osid>
    <page-views-count type="integer">9477</page-views-count>
    <party>Republican</party>
    <phone>202-224-4124</phone>
    <religion>Methodist</religion>
    <state>AL</state>
    <sunlight-nickname>Jeff</sunlight-nickname>
    <title>Sen.</title>
    <unaccented-name>Jefferson Sessions</unaccented-name>
    <url nil="true"></url>
    <user-approval type="float">3.67272727272727</user-approval>
    <watchdog-id nil="true"></watchdog-id>
    <website>http://sessions.senate.gov/</website>
    <youtube-id nil="true"></youtube-id>
  </sponsor>
  <co-sponsors type="array"/>
  <actions type="array">
    <action type="BillAction">
      <action-type>action</action-type>
      <amendment-id type="integer" nil="true"></amendment-id>
      <bill-id type="integer">46743</bill-id>
      <created-at type="timestamp" nil="true"></created-at>
      <date type="integer">1192507200</date>
      <datetime type="timestamp">Tue Oct 16 00:00:00 -0500 2007</datetime>
      <how nil="true"></how>
      <id type="integer">132529</id>
      <result nil="true"></result>
      <roll-call-id type="integer" nil="true"></roll-call-id>
      <roll-call-number type="integer" nil="true"></roll-call-number>
      <text>Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.</text>
      <vote-type nil="true"></vote-type>
      <where nil="true"></where>
    </action>
    <action type="BillAction">
      <action-type>introduced</action-type>
      <amendment-id type="integer" nil="true"></amendment-id>
      <bill-id type="integer">46743</bill-id>
      <created-at type="timestamp" nil="true"></created-at>
      <date type="integer">1192507200</date>
      <datetime type="timestamp">Tue Oct 16 00:00:00 -0500 2007</datetime>
      <how nil="true"></how>
      <id type="integer">132528</id>
      <result nil="true"></result>
      <roll-call-id type="integer" nil="true"></roll-call-id>
      <roll-call-number type="integer" nil="true"></roll-call-number>
      <text nil="true"></text>
      <vote-type nil="true"></vote-type>
      <where nil="true"></where>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <roll-calls type="array"/>
</bill>
