Extra-Long Staple Cotton Act of 1983

Extra Long Staple Cotton Act of 1983

Long title	An Act to establish an improved program for extra long staple cotton.
Enacted by	the 98th United States Congress
Effective	August 26, 1983
Citations
Public law	98-88
Statutes at Large	97 Stat. 494
Codification
Acts amended	Agricultural Act of 1949 Agriculture and Food Act of 1981
Titles amended	7 U.S.C.: Agriculture
U.S.C. sections amended	7 U.S.C. ch. 35a § 1421 et seq. 7 U.S.C. ch. 35 § 1342 et seq.
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 3190 by Eligio de la Garza, II (D–TX) on June 2, 1983 Committee consideration by House Agriculture, Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Passed the House on June 27, 1983 (passed voice vote) Passed the Senate on August 4, 1983 (passed voice vote) Signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on August 26, 1983

The Extra-Long Staple Cotton Act of 1983 (P.L. 98-88) eliminated marketing quotas and allotments for extra-long staple cotton and tied its support to upland cotton through a formula that set the nonrecourse loan rate at not less than 150% of the upland cotton loan level. The act amended the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set forth new Extra-Long Staple cotton program provisions and Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to add Extra-Long Staple cotton to the $50,000 payment limitation for the payments which a person received under commodity programs. The act was sponsored by Kika de la Garza.

References

•  This article incorporates public domain material from the Congressional Research Service document "Report for Congress: Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws, 2005 Edition" by Jasper Womach.