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Stop Taxpayer-Funded Alcohol Marketing Act

H.R. 4631 · 114th Congress · Feb 25, 2016 · Lineage

A BILL

To amend the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to eliminate the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to make value-added agricultural product market development grants to support the development, production, or marketing of alcoholic beverages and to rescind a portion of the Commodity Credit Corporation funds made available for such grants.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “Stop Taxpayer-Funded Alcohol Marketing Act”.

Sec. 2 Value-added agricultural product market development grants

(a)
Exclusion of alcohol products from definition— Section 231(a)(5) of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (7 U.S.C. 1632a(a)(5)) is amended by adding below subparagraph (B) the following:
(b)
Rescission— Of the funds made available under section 231(b)(7)(A) of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (7 U.S.C. 1632a(b)(7)(A)) to the Secretary of Agriculture to make value-added agricultural product market development grants and unobligated as of the date of the enactment of this Act, $8,000,000 is hereby rescinded.