A bill to repeal provisions of law concerning price support for, and marketing of, tobacco, and for other purposes.
Tobacco Deregulation Act of 1983 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 and the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal specified tobacco programs, including: (1) price supports; (2) parity payments; (3) review and adjustment of quotas; and (4) marketing quotas.
Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to prohibit agricultural commodity assistance for tobacco.
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Assistance Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from issuing any tobacco handling orders.
Makes such provisions applicable to the 1984 and subsequent tobacco crops.
Repeals provisions relating to compacts among States providing for the control or production of, or commerce in, tobacco within such States. Withdraws congressional consent to such compacts.
Provides for sliding-scale based payments to low-income tobacco farmers (1982 adjusted gross income up to $24,000) who have terminated acreage allotments and marketing quotas.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
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