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H.R. 6193: EAT Healthy America Act

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H.R. 6193: EAT Healthy America Act

109th Congress · introduced 2006-09-26 · Agriculture and Food · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2006-09-26 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Pombo, Richard W. [R-CA-11] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

EAT Healthy America Act

Plain summary

Equitable Agriculture Today for a Healthy America Act or the EAT Healthy America Act - Amends provisions with respect to: (1) specialty crops; (2) the tree assistance program; (3) the conservation reserve program; (4) the wetlands reserve program; (5) the farmland protection program; (6) the grassland reserve program; (7) the wildlife habitat incentive program; (8) the environmental qualities incentives program; (9) air quality improvement; (10) integrated pest management initiative; (11) native plant habitat restoration; (12) agricultural trade; (13) invasive pests and diseases; (14) nutrition; (15) agricultural research; and (16) renewable energy, including crop biomass waste.

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Official text

EAT Healthy America Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Pombo, Richard W. [R-CA-11] · 73 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Jim Costa (D-CA), Ed Case (D-HI), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Rick Larsen (D-WA), John B. Larson (D-CT), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Doris O. Matsui (D-CA) and 13 more.

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Ballot initiative
A proposed law or constitutional amendment that citizens place on the ballot by gathering enough voter signatures, so voters decide it directly. About half the states allow some form of it.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong109-hr6193 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong109 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong109