Bills About Agriculture And Food Sponsored by Pat Roberts (R-Kan.)

Sen. Roberts sponsored 46 bills about agriculture and food in the 116th Congress (2019-20).

Introduced	Number	Title	Cosponsors	Cosponsor Party	Latest Action
June 24, 2020	S.4054	An original bill to reauthorize the United States Grain Standards Act, and for other purposes.	0		By Senator Roberts from Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry filed written report. Report No. 116-334.
Oct. 22, 2020	S.4845	A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct surveys to collect data regarding the prevention, reduction, and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, soil carbon sequestration, and forest wood and tree carbon sequestration, and for other purposes.	0		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Oct. 24, 2019	S.2695	A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for the defense of United States agriculture and food through the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, and for other purposes.	26	Bipartisan	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 376.
July 31, 2019	S.CON.RES.24	A concurrent resolution recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Food and Nutrition Service of the Department of Agriculture.	1	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.
June 11, 2018	S.3042	A bill to provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2023, and for other purposes.	1	All Democrats	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 470.
March 1, 2016	S.2609	An original bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a national voluntary labeling standard for bioengineered foods, and for other purposes.	0		By Senator Roberts from Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry filed written report. Report No. 114-403. Additional views filed.
July 14, 2016	S.RES.546	A resolution honoring the centennial of the United States Grain Standards Act.	1	All Democrats	Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5193-5194; text as passed Senate: CR S5175-5176)
Jan. 28, 2016	S.RES.349	A resolution congratulating the Farm Credit System on the celebration of its 100th anniversary.	58	Bipartisan	Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.
July 6, 2016	S.3136	An original bill to reauthorize child nutrition programs, and for other purposes.	0		Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 547.
Feb. 3, 2016	S.RES.360	A resolution congratulating the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture on the celebration of its 100th anniversary.	3	Bipartisan	Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S571; text as passed Senate: CR S578)
May 21, 2015	S.1417	An original bill to reauthorize the United States Grain Standards Act, and for other purposes.	0		Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 90.
March 5, 2014	S.RES.373	A resolution recognizing the importance of biosecurity and agro-defense in the United States.	3	Bipartisan	Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1326; text as passed Senate: CR S1324)
April 9, 2013	S.677	A bill to amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to extend and improve the crop insurance program, and for other purposes.	0		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
March 5, 2013	S.458	A bill to improve and extend certain nutrition programs.	3	All Republicans	Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Jan. 29, 2013	S.175	A bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to improve the use of certain registered pesticides.	14	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
July 10, 2012	S.3368	A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act to prohibit the provision of funds made available to carry out that Act in any State that allows income deductions for controlled substances, including medical marijuana.	0		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
March 29, 2012	S.2274	A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a nonprofit corporation to be known as the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research.	5	Bipartisan	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
April 4, 2011	S.718	A bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to improve the use of certain registered pesticides.	17	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Feb. 10, 2011	S.RES.47	A resolution recognizing the importance of biosecurity and agrodefense in the United States.	3	Bipartisan	Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S646)
June 25, 2009	S.1375	A bill to amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 to reauthorize State mediation programs.	14	Bipartisan	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
July 25, 2008	S.3337	A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out conservation reserve program notice CRP-598, entitled the "Voluntary Modification of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Contract for Critical Feed Use".	7	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Sept. 21, 2005	S.1742	A bill to amend the Food and Stamp Act of 1977 to exclude certain military housing allowances from the eligibility requirements for food stamps.	0	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
March 16, 2005	S.643	A bill to amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 to reauthorize State mediation programs.	3	Bipartisan	Became Public Law No: 109-17.
Nov. 18, 2003	S.1877	A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to improve the enrollment of cropland into the conservation reserve program through the farmable wetlands program.	0	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Jan. 9, 2003	S.124	A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to suspend the requirement that rental payments under the conservation reserve program be reduced by reason of harvesting or grazing conducted in response to a drought or other emergency.	0	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Jan. 9, 2003	S.125	A bill to provide emergency disaster assistance to agricultural producers.	6	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Oct. 1, 2002	S.3022	A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to suspend the requirement that rental payments under the conservation reserve program be reduced by reason of harvesting or grazing conducted in response to a drought or other emergency.	0	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
July 31, 2002	S.2830	A bill to provide emergency disaster assistance to agricultural producers.	6	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
July 23, 2002	S.2774	A bill to transfer to the Secretary of Homeland Security the functions of the Secretary of Agriculture relative to agricultural import and entry inspection activities.	4	Bipartisan	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
March 21, 2002	S.2040	A bill to provide emergency agricultural assistance to producers of the 2002 crop.	3	All Republicans	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure.
Oct. 15, 2001	S.1546	A bill to provide additional funding to combat bioterrorism.	2	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
June 20, 2001	S.1072	A bill to extend eligibility for loan deficiency payments and payments in lieu of loan deficiency payments.	0	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
July 27, 1998	S.2356	A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for uniform food safety warning notification requirements, and for other purposes.	9	Bipartisan	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
March 31, 1998	S.1884	A bill to amend the Commodity Exchange Act to remove the prohibition on agricultural trade options outside contract markets.	0	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Oct. 1, 1996	H.R.4336	To restore the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to extend existing and expiring contracts under the conservation reserve program.	0		Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
June 18, 1996	H.R.3665	To transfer to the Secretary of Agriculture the authority to conduct the census of agriculture.	18	Bipartisan	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
June 20, 1996	H.R.3697	To exempt from the Regulation E requirements, State administration of the food stamp program through electronic benefit transfer systems that provide for distribution of means-tested benefits.	3	Bipartisan	Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Jan. 5, 1996	H.R.2854	To modify the operation of certain agricultural programs.	15	All Republicans	Became Public Law No: 104-127.
Feb. 27, 1996	H.R.2973	To reform and extend Department of Agriculture programs related to agricultural credit, rural development, conservation, trade, research, and promotion of agricultural commodities.	6	All Republicans	Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Aug. 4, 1995	H.R.2195	To establish limits on Commodity Credit Corporation farm and export expenditures for the 1996 through 2002 crop years, to authorize the use of market transition contracts to support farming certainty and flexibility and ensure continued compliance with farm conservation compliance plans and wetland protection, to make marketing assistance loans available for certain crops, to establish a commission to examine the future of production agriculture, and for other purposes.	11	All Republicans	For Further Action See H.R.2491.
July 31, 1995	H.R.2147	To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to permit producers greater discretion in deciding to purchase catastrophic risk protection and to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to clarify the prevented planting rule for the calculation of crop acreage bases.	14	Bipartisan	Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
March 6, 1995	H.R.1135	To improve the Commodity Distribution Programs of the Department of Agriculture, to reform and simplify the Food Stamp Program, and for other purposes.	0		For Further Action See H.R.4.
Oct. 4, 1994	H.R.5172	To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to establish a Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel within the United States Department of Agriculture.	4	All Republicans	Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Feb. 3, 1994	H.R.3794	To defer temporarily the deadline for compliance with conservation plans for certain highly erodible cropland due to damage to such land caused by damaging weather or related condition.	14	Bipartisan	Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
March 29, 1993	H.R.1511	To amend the Agriculture Trade Act of 1978 to promote and expand the export of agricultural commodities and products to foreign countries, and for other purposes.	5	All Republicans	Rereferred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
April 1, 1993	H.R.1587	To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to exempt the triple base acreage of the producers on a farm from the highly erodible land and wetland conservation requirements of such Act, and for other purposes.	4	All Republicans	Executive Comment Requested from USDA.

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