---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 8719"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "8719"
heading: "Period of effectiveness"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/8719"
units:
  - "Chapter 113 — Agricultural Commodity Support Programs"
  - "Subchapter I — Direct Payments and Counter-Cyclical Payments"
---

# §8719. Period of effectiveness


This subchapter shall be effective beginning with the 2008 crop year of each [covered commodity](/usc/7/8702.md?p=4) through the 2012 crop year.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–234, title I, § 1109, May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 953; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title I, § 1109, June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 1681.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 enacted identical sections. Pub. L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Enactment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 8701 of this title.