Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938

Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938

Long title	An Act to provide for the conservation of national soil resources and to provide an adequate and balanced flow of agricultural commodities in interstate and domestic commerce and for other purposes.
Enacted by	the 75th United States Congress
Effective	February 16, 1938
Citations
Public law	75-430
Statutes at Large	52 Stat. 31
Codification
Titles amended	7 U.S.C.: Agriculture
U.S.C. sections created	Chapter 35 § 1281
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 8505 Reported by the joint conference committee on February 9, 1938; agreed to by the House on February 9, 1938 (264-135) and by the Senate on February 9, 1938 (passed) Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 16, 1938

This is an article about the "Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938". For the act by the same name in 1933, see Agricultural Adjustment Act.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 75–430, 52 Stat. 31, enacted February 16, 1938) was legislation in the United States that was enacted as an alternative and replacement for the farm subsidy policies, in previous New Deal farm legislation (Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933), that had been found unconstitutional.^[1] The act revived the provisions in the previous Agriculture Adjustment Act, with the exception that the financing of the law's programs would be provided by the Federal Government and not a processor's tax,^[2] and was also enforced as a response to the success of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936.^[3]