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Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2003

Introduced: January 9, 2003 See on congress.gov
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Jan 9, 2003
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Jan 9, 2003
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Emergency Agricultural Disaster 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.

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.

What's happening now January 9, 2003

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 1
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Crapo, Mike
Idaho · Jan 9, 2003
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 125: Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2003. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-125/
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"S. 125: Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2003." 108th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-125/.
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S. 125, 108th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-125/.
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