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S 3586 115th Congress Senate Agriculture and Food Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit Department of Agriculture Food industry and services Food supply, safety, and labeling

A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency payments to dairy producers.

Introduced: October 11, 2018 Introduced by: Sanders, Bernard Independent · Vermont See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Oct 11, 2018
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to issue emergency payments to dairy producers. USDA must develop criteria for the payments that give priority to producers who are: (1) located in a state with a high cost of dairy production compared to other states, and (2) on a farm with a high cost of dairy production based on the size of the farm.

The emergency payments provided under this bill must be at least $10,000 but no greater than $20,000 per dairy operation.

USDA must use $556 million in Commodity Credit Corporation funds to carry out this bill. The bill designates the spending as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010 and the FY2018 congressional budget resolution. (This exempts the spending from various budget enforcement rules.)

What's happening now October 11, 2018

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

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