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HR 2147 104th Congress House Agriculture and Food Acreage allotments Agricultural economics Agricultural insurance Agricultural price supports Disaster relief Disasters Emergency Management Finance and Financial Sector

To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to permit producers greater discretion in deciding to purchase catastrophic risk protection and to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to clarify the prevented planting rule for the calculation of crop acreage bases.

Introduced: July 31, 1995 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Aug 2, 1995
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Aug 2, 1995
Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops.
Jul 31, 1995
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Jul 31, 1995
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1565)
Jul 31, 1995
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to permit a producer who declines catastrophic risk protection to maintain price support and other agricultural program eligibility if such producer agrees in writing to waive emergency crop loss assistance eligibility.

Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to limit substitute acreage to the amount of failed acreage in determining crop acreage bases in prevented planting circumstances.

What's happening now August 2, 1995

Executive Comment Requested from USDA.

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