S 3211
110th Congress
Senate
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Indemnity
Livestock
A bill to amend the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007, to clarify eligibility for livestock indemnity payments.
Introduced: June 26, 2008
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Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 26, 2008
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Jun 26, 2008
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Amends the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 to redefine "natural disaster declaration" for purposes of the livestock compensation program.
States that for purposes of livestock indemnity payments: (1) eligible livestock losses shall include the death of livestock in a disaster county due to a natural disaster regardless of whether the death is related to any natural disaster that is the basis for a natural disaster declaration (for the disaster county); and (2) assistance applications must be filed not later than 180 days after enactment of this Act.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1