HR 790
105th Congress
House
Agriculture and Food
Administrative procedure
Commerce
Commodity Credit Corporation
Crop insurance
Disaster relief
Disasters
Droughts
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Law
Risk management
Storms
Water Resources Development
Weather
Crop Insurance Improvement Act of 1997
Introduced: February 13, 1997
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Everywhere this bill has been
5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 25, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops.
Feb 25, 1997
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Feb 13, 1997
Introduced in House
Feb 13, 1997
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Feb 13, 1997
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E277-278)
Plain-English summary
Crop Insurance Improvement Act of 1997 - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to define "designated disaster area" to include an area: (1) declared a major disaster area by the President; or (2) determined to be a disaster area by the Secretary of Agriculture.
Prohibits the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation from: (1) listing a producer with disaster-area crop losses on the nonstandard classification list; and (2) considering such losses in yield determinations.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops.
Committees of jurisdiction
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