HR 307
108th Congress
House
Agriculture and Food
Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Agricultural credit
Agricultural subsidies
Animals
Crop insurance
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Farm income
Farm produce
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Law
Livestock
Farm Disaster Emergency Assistance Act of 2003
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 8, 2003
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Jan 8, 2003
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Farm Disaster Emergency Assistance Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide: (1) emergency financial assistance to agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2001 or 2002 crop losses due to weather or related conditions; and (2) payments to livestock producers who have incurred 2001 and 2002 losses in an emergency-designated county, with discretionary set-asides for the American Indian livestock program.
Permits producers with qualifying losses in both years to elect to receive payments in either, but not both, of such years.
Makes producers ineligible for crop disaster assistance if they did not: (1) get Federal crop insurance for insurable commodities; and (2) file required paperwork and pay related fees for noninsurable commodities. Sets forth waiver provisions.
Directs the Secretary to transfer specified Commodity Credit Corporation amounts to a certain account established to encourage domestic consumption and foreign exportation of agricultural commodities.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Committees of jurisdiction
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