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Discretionary amounts, though, are the primary focus during the bill\u2019s development, since mandatory amounts are generally set by authorizing laws such as the farm bill.\nThe largest discretionary spending items are the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); agricultural research; FDA; rural development; foreign food aid and trade; farm assistance programs; food safety inspection; conservation; and animal and plant health programs. The main mandatory spending items are the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), child nutrition, crop insurance, and the farm commodity and conservation programs paid by the Commodity Credit Corporation.\nThe FY2017 appropriation for Agriculture and Related Agencies was enacted on May 5, 2017, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act (P.L. 115-31, Division A). The fiscal year started on October 1, 2016, under continuing resolutions (CRs) that continued FY2016 funding with a few exceptions. The House and the Senate Appropriations Committees reported their FY2017 Agriculture appropriations bills (H.R. 5054, S. 2956) in April and May 2016.\nThe discretionary total of the enacted appropriation is $20.877 billion, which is $623 million less than enacted in FY2016 (-2.9%). It achieves this primarily by increasing budgetary offsets over the FY2016 level through greater rescissions of prior appropriations and greater scorekeeping adjustments. \nHowever, the budget authority for FY2017 provided to agencies in the major titles of the bill actually increases by $462 million compared to FY2016. Increases primarily include $163 million more for discretionary conservation programs than in FY2016, $119 million more for rural development, $65 million more for discretionary domestic nutrition programs, $52 million more for animal and plant health programs, $51 million more for agricultural research programs, $42 million more for the Food and Drug Administration, $29 million more for the Farm Service Agency, $20 million more for USDA administrative facilities, and $17 million more for food safety inspections. Reductions primarily come from a rescission of unused domestic nutrition assistance funding ($850 million rescission), supplemental funding for international food aid ($116 million less than in FY2016), agricultural research facilities ($112 million less), greater use of a disaster designation that does not count against budget caps ($76 million extra offset), and disaster assistance ($38 million less). \nThe appropriation also carries mandatory spending that totaled about $132.5 billion. 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It also funds the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and\u2014in even-numbered fiscal years\u2014the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). (For CFTC, the Agriculture appropriations subcommittee has jurisdiction in the House but not in the Senate.)\nAgriculture appropriations include both mandatory and discretionary spending. Discretionary amounts, though, are the primary focus during the bill\u2019s development, since mandatory amounts are generally set by authorizing laws such as the farm bill.\nThe largest discretionary spending items are the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); agricultural research; FDA; rural development; foreign food aid and trade; farm assistance programs; food safety inspection; conservation; and animal and plant health programs. The main mandatory spending items are the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), child nutrition, crop insurance, and the farm commodity and conservation programs paid by the Commodity Credit Corporation.\nFY2017 has started under two continuing resolutions that last until April 28, 2017 (P.L. 114-254, Division A). Both the House and the Senate Appropriations Committees had reported their Agriculture appropriations bills (H.R. 5054, S. 2956), but no further action on them occurred. \nThe discretionary total of the FY2017 House-reported bill is $21.299 billion, which would be $451 million less than enacted in FY2016. The discretionary total of the Senate-reported bill is $21.250 billion. Although it appears less than the House bill, the Senate bill is $201 million more than the House bill on a comparable basis after adjusting for CFTC jurisdiction. Both bills also carry $126.4 billion of mandatory spending, bringing the overall total in excess of $147 billion.\nIn addition to setting budgetary amounts, the Agriculture appropriations bill also is a vehicle for policy-related provisions that direct how the executive branch should carry out the appropriation. Notable policy provisions in the FY2017 bills include:\nGIPSA rule. The House-reported bill would prohibit the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) from finalizing and implementing a livestock and poultry marketing rule\u2014the \u201cGIPSA rule.\u201d\nHorse slaughter. Both bills would prohibit the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) from inspecting horse slaughter facilities.\nCheckoff programs. The House report calls for USDA to recognize that checkoff boards are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). \nTobacco products. The House-reported bill would grandfather all e-cigarettes and other newly deemed tobacco products currently on the market so that manufacturers would not have to file premarket applications.\nSNAP-authorized retailers. Both bills would limit the scope of rules about inventory requirements for SNAP-authorized retailers.\nSNAP households reporting requirements. Both bills would require SNAP households to report a move out of the state to the state agency.\nSchool meals nutrition standards. The House-reported bill would again require exemptions from a 100% whole grain requirement and prevent USDA from implementing a sodium requirement without scientific evidence. \nExport promotion office in Cuba. 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It also funds the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and\u2014in even-numbered fiscal years\u2014the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). (For CFTC, the Agriculture appropriations subcommittee has jurisdiction in the House but not in the Senate.)\nAgriculture appropriations include both mandatory and discretionary spending. Discretionary amounts, though, are the primary focus during the bill\u2019s development, since mandatory amounts are generally set by authorizing laws such as the farm bill.\nThe largest discretionary spending items are the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); agricultural research; FDA; rural development; foreign food aid and trade; farm assistance programs; food safety inspection; conservation; and animal and plant health programs. The main mandatory spending items are the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), child nutrition, crop insurance, and the farm commodity and conservation programs paid by the Commodity Credit Corporation.\nFY2017 has started under a continuing resolution that lasts until December 9, 2016 (P.L. 114-223, Division C). Both the House and the Senate Appropriations Committees had reported their Agriculture appropriations bills (H.R. 5054, S. 2956), but no further action on them occurred. \nThe discretionary total of the FY2017 House-reported bill is $21.299 billion, which would be $451 million less than enacted in FY2016. The discretionary total of the Senate-reported bill is $21.250 billion. Although it appears less than the House bill, the Senate bill is $201 million more than the House bill on a comparable basis after adjusting for CFTC jurisdiction. Both bills also carry $126.4 billion of mandatory spending, bringing the overall total in excess of $147 billion.\nIn addition to setting budgetary amounts, the Agriculture appropriations bill also is a vehicle for policy-related provisions that direct how the executive branch should carry out the appropriation. Notable policy provisions in the FY2017 bills include:\nGIPSA rule. The House-reported bill would prohibit the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) from finalizing and implementing a livestock and poultry marketing rule\u2014the \u201cGIPSA rule.\u201d\nHorse slaughter. Both bills would prohibit the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) from inspecting horse slaughter facilities.\nCheckoff programs. The House report calls for USDA to recognize that checkoff boards are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). \nTobacco products. The House-reported bill would grandfather all e-cigarettes and other newly deemed tobacco products currently on the market so that manufacturers would not have to file premarket applications.\nSNAP-authorized retailers. Both bills would limit the scope of rules about inventory requirements for SNAP-authorized retailers.\nSNAP households reporting requirements. Both bills would require SNAP households to report a move out of the state to the state agency.\nSchool meals nutrition standards. The House-reported bill would again require exemptions from a 100% whole grain requirement and prevent USDA from implementing a sodium requirement without scientific evidence. \nExport promotion office in Cuba. 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It also funds the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and\u2014in even-numbered fiscal years\u2014the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).\nAgriculture appropriations include both mandatory and discretionary spending. Discretionary amounts, though, are the primary focus during the bill\u2019s development, since mandatory amounts are generally set by authorizing laws such as the farm bill.\nThe largest discretionary spending items are the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); agricultural research; FDA; rural development; foreign food aid and trade; farm assistance programs; food safety inspection; conservation; and animal and plant health programs. The main mandatory spending items are the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), child nutrition, crop insurance, and the farm commodity and conservation programs paid by the Commodity Credit Corporation.\nBoth the House and the Senate Appropriations Committees have reported their FY2017 Agriculture appropriations bills (H.R. 5054, S. 2956). The discretionary total of the House-reported bill is $21.299 billion, which would be $451 million less than enacted in FY2016. The discretionary total of the Senate-reported bill is $21.250 billion. On a comparable basis, the Senate bill is $201 million more than the House bill if the CFTC appropriation is subtracted from the House bill to adjust for CFTC jurisdiction. Both bills also carry mandatory spending totaling $126.4 billion, bringing the overall total in excess of $147 billion.\nIn addition to setting budgetary amounts, the Agriculture appropriations bill also is a vehicle for policy-related provisions that direct how the executive branch should carry out the appropriation. Notable policy provisions in the FY2017 bills include:\nGIPSA rule. The House-reported bill would prohibit the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) from finalizing and implementing a livestock and poultry marketing rule\u2014the \u201cGIPSA rule.\u201d\nHorse slaughter. Both bills would prohibit the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) from inspecting horse slaughter facilities.\nCheckoff programs. The House report calls for USDA to recognize that checkoff boards are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). \nTobacco products. The House-reported bill would grandfather all e-cigarettes and other newly deemed tobacco products so that manufacturers would not have to file a premarket application.\nSNAP-authorized retailers. Both bills would limit the scope of rules about inventory requirements for SNAP-authorized retailers.\nSNAP households reporting requirements. Both bills would require SNAP households to report to the state agency a move out of the state beginning in FY2017 and each year thereafter.\nSchool meals nutrition standards. The House-reported bill would again require exemptions from a 100% whole grain requirement and prevent USDA from implementing a sodium requirement without scientific evidence. \nExport promotion office in Cuba. The Senate committee report recommends fully funding an administration request to open a Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) office in Cuba.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R44441", "sha1": "6f89dc1b2df2c10f15390d1a4bba46e72e44ff33", "filename": "files/20160808_R44441_6f89dc1b2df2c10f15390d1a4bba46e72e44ff33.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R44441", "sha1": "93f66307f0b9cddb4ea4c9778b03260bcacff649", "filename": "files/20160808_R44441_93f66307f0b9cddb4ea4c9778b03260bcacff649.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 2340, "name": "Agriculture Appropriations and Budget" }, { "source": "IBCList", "id": 641, "name": "Farm Bill and Agricultural Policy" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 453472, "date": "2016-06-17", "retrieved": "2016-06-21T20:58:51.063819", "title": "FY2017 Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations: In Brief", "summary": "The Agriculture appropriations bill funds the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), except for the Forest Service. It also funds the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and\u2014in even-numbered fiscal years\u2014the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).\nAgriculture appropriations include both mandatory and discretionary spending. Discretionary amounts, though, are the primary focus during the bill\u2019s development, since mandatory amounts are generally set by authorizing laws such as the farm bill.\nThe largest discretionary spending items are the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); agricultural research; FDA; rural development; foreign food aid and trade; farm assistance programs; food safety inspection; conservation; and animal and plant health programs. The main mandatory spending items are the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), child nutrition, crop insurance, and the farm commodity and conservation programs paid by the Commodity Credit Corporation.\nBoth the House and the Senate Appropriations Committees have reported their FY2017 Agriculture appropriations bills (H.R. 5054, S. 2956). The discretionary total of the House-reported bill is $21.299 billion, which would be $451 million less than enacted in FY2016. The discretionary total of the Senate-reported bill is $21.250 billion, which is actually comparatively $201 million more than the House bill because the Senate bill does not have jurisdiction for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The bill also carries mandatory spending totaling $126.4 billion, bringing the overall total in excess of $147 billion.\nIn addition to setting budgetary amounts, the Agriculture appropriations bill also is a vehicle for policy-related provisions that direct how the executive branch should carry out the appropriation. Notable policy provisions include prohibitions on USDA finalizing livestock and poultry marketing regulations in the House bill, prohibitions on horse slaughter inspections in the House and Senate bills, protections against Freedom of Information Act requests for checkoff programs in the House bill, limits on the regulatory burden for e-cigarettes in the House bill, limits on regulations that would affect retailers accepting SNAP benefits in the House and Senate bills, reporting requirements on SNAP households moving out of state in the House and Senate bills, waivers offering flexibility for implementing school nutrition standards in the House bill, and allowing a USDA-requested export promotion office in Cuba in the Senate bill.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R44441", "sha1": "9dfd95fdadf445dcf7a4608031e1317cf0f9a3c0", "filename": "files/20160617_R44441_9dfd95fdadf445dcf7a4608031e1317cf0f9a3c0.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R44441", "sha1": "d501ef502015b2eb742bfab06b79db7938cdd08e", "filename": "files/20160617_R44441_d501ef502015b2eb742bfab06b79db7938cdd08e.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 2340, "name": "Agriculture Appropriations and Budget" }, { "source": "IBCList", "id": 641, "name": "Farm Bill and Agricultural Policy" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 452183, "date": "2016-04-29", "retrieved": "2016-05-24T19:15:15.778941", "title": "FY2017 Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations: In Brief", "summary": "The Agriculture appropriations bill funds the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), except for the Forest Service. It also funds the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and\u2014in even-numbered fiscal years\u2014the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).\nAgriculture appropriations include both mandatory and discretionary spending. Discretionary amounts, though, are the primary focus during the bill\u2019s development, since mandatory amounts are generally set by authorizing laws such as the farm bill.\nThe largest discretionary spending items are the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); agricultural research; FDA; rural development; foreign food aid and trade; farm assistance programs; food safety inspection; conservation; and animal and plant health programs. The main mandatory spending items are the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), child nutrition, crop insurance, and the farm commodity and conservation programs paid by the Commodity Credit Corporation.\nThe House Appropriations Committee passed its FY2017 Agriculture appropriations bill (H.R. 5054, H.Rept. 114-531) on April 19, 2016. The discretionary total of the House-reported bill and its \u201c302(b)\u201d allocation is $21.299 billion, which would be $451 million less than enacted in FY2016.\nThe Senate Appropriations Committee has not yet marked up an Agriculture appropriations bill. But it adopted a \u201c302(b)\u201d discretionary allocation for the Agriculture subcommittee of $21.250 billion. This would allow $201 million more than the House bill on a comparative basis.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R44441", "sha1": "05f505e7762df9ce59308a4e13908dc31df329d2", "filename": "files/20160429_R44441_05f505e7762df9ce59308a4e13908dc31df329d2.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R44441", "sha1": "635f96046e0adb88bc5dd680a1d2f2e12e9c10dd", "filename": "files/20160429_R44441_635f96046e0adb88bc5dd680a1d2f2e12e9c10dd.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 2340, "name": "Agriculture Appropriations and Budget" }, { "source": "IBCList", "id": 641, "name": "Farm Bill and Agricultural Policy" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 451288, "date": "2016-03-31", "retrieved": "2016-04-12T15:44:33.438388", "title": "FY2017 Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations: In Brief", "summary": "The Agriculture appropriations bill funds the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), except for the Forest Service. It also funds the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and\u2014in even-numbered fiscal years\u2014the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).\nAgriculture appropriations include both mandatory and discretionary spending. Discretionary amounts, though, are the primary focus during the bill\u2019s development, since mandatory amounts are generally set by authorizing laws such as the farm bill.\nThe largest discretionary spending items are the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); agricultural research; FDA; rural development; foreign food aid and trade; farm assistance programs; food safety inspection; conservation; and animal and plant health programs. The main mandatory spending items are the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), child nutrition, crop insurance, and the farm commodity and conservation programs paid by the Commodity Credit Corporation.\nThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has not yet released an official re-estimate of the President\u2019s budget request and compiled it on the basis of subcommittee jurisdiction, but the discretionary total of accounts in the FY2017 Agriculture appropriations bill is likely to be about $21.77 billion. This would be on par with the FY2016 enacted total (+0.1% on a comparable House-basis amount, or -0.3% on a Senate-basis amount excluding CFTC).\nThe Administration is requesting funding increases for most agencies in the Agriculture bill. The total of the increases for agencies that would see their discretionary budget authority rise is an increase of $514 million, including $79 million more for agricultural research agencies, $75 million more for USDA administration, $66 million more for rural development, $18 million more for the Farm Service Agency, $16 million more for the Food Safety Inspection Service, $9.5 million more for Conservation Operations, $117 million more for the Food and Nutrition Service, $13 million more for FDA, and $80 million more for CFTC.\nThe Administration proposes $492 million of reductions in programming or budget authority for some agencies compared to last year to offset some of the requested increases, including $8.2 million less for the Risk Management Agency\u2019s discretionary appropriation, $117 million less for Agricultural Research Service buildings and facilities, and $136 million less for two foreign assistance programs. General provisions and scorekeeping also contribute $209 million of reductions compared to last year, owing to no disaster or supplemental programming and allowing more for mandatory programs that were used to reduce the budget last year.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R44441", "sha1": "22002c0cd8f715dfb0d24ed663555f18afd6e430", "filename": "files/20160331_R44441_22002c0cd8f715dfb0d24ed663555f18afd6e430.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R44441", "sha1": "92e61896fc5c7ed813b9930a01a57cd07fab2958", "filename": "files/20160331_R44441_92e61896fc5c7ed813b9930a01a57cd07fab2958.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 2340, "name": "Agriculture Appropriations and Budget" }, { "source": "IBCList", "id": 641, "name": "Farm Bill and Agricultural Policy" } ] } ], "topics": [ "Agricultural Policy", "Appropriations", "Economic Policy" ] }