House bill · 110th Congress · Public Law 110-398
To amend the commodity provisions of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to permit producers to aggregate base acres and reconstitute farms to avoid the prohibition on receiving direct payments, counter-cyclical payments, or average crop revenue election payments when the sum of the base acres of a farm is 10 acres or less, and for other purposes.
Became law on Oct 13, 2008.
Sponsor: Rep. Bob Etheridge D-NCWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 9, 2008
- Committee actionSep 18, 2008
- Passed HouseSep 24, 2008 · by voice vote
- Passed SenateSep 29, 2008 · by unanimous consent
- Resolving differencesSep 29, 2008
- To the PresidentOct 3, 2008
- Became lawOct 13, 2008
Latest action: Oct 13, 2008 — Became Public Law No: 110-398.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6849.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 6849, A bill to amend the commodity provisions of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to permit producers to aggregate base acres and reconstitute farms to avoid the prohibition on receiving direct payments, countercyclical paymen” on September 22, 2008. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on September 19, 2008</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 22, 2008 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/20278
- CBO publication date
- September 22, 2008
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6849, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/6849
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
043c91f695cefdf602929718702178544c636c61a1bbf951c100cb98fc9ffaba
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 6849, A bill to amend the commodity provisions of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to permit producers to aggregate base acres and reconstitute farms to avoid the prohibition on receiving direct payments, countercyclical paymen” on September 22, 2008. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on September 19, 2008”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 22, 2008 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/20278
- CBO publication date
- September 22, 2008
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6849, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/6849
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
043c91f695cefdf602929718702178544c636c61a1bbf951c100cb98fc9ffaba
PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 110-881 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Agriculture Committee on September 24, 2008.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 24, 2008 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/110/HRPT/881
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6849, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/6849
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
043c91f695cefdf602929718702178544c636c61a1bbf951c100cb98fc9ffaba
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
61 cosponsors — 26 Republicans, 35 Democrats
26 of 61 cosponsors (43%) are from the other party.
Robert Aderholt (R-AL), Michael Arcuri (D-NY), John Barrow (D-GA), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Leonard Boswell (D-IA), Charles Boustany (R-LA), Nancy Boyda (D-KS), Bruce Braley (D-IA), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Russ Carnahan (D-MO), Ben Chandler (D-KY), Travis Childers (D-MS), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Robert Cramer (D-AL), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Geoff Davis (R-KY), Lincoln Davis (D-TN), Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Brad Ellsworth (D-IN), Terry Everett (R-AL), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Robert Goodlatte (R-VA), Sam Graves (R-MO), John Hall (D-NY), Phil Hare (D-IL), Robin Hayes (R-NC), Baron Hill (D-IN), Tim Holden (D-PA), Timothy Johnson (R-IL), Walter Jones (R-NC) and 31 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 27, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.