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
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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
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
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Committees of jurisdiction
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