S 2833
115th Congress
Senate
Agriculture and Food
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to improve the calculation of county-level agriculture risk coverage payments.
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 10, 2018
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
May 10, 2018
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to use certain data to calculate payments for county coverage under the Agriculture Risk Coverage program (ARC). (ARC provides revenue loss coverage by issuing payments to farmers when the actual county crop revenue of a covered commodity is below a specified amount.)
In the case of country coverage, USDA must calculate payments using county data of the National Agricultural Statistics Service. If this data is unavailable, USDA must use comparable county data, as determined by the applicable state office of the Farm Service Agency.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Committees of jurisdiction
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