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S 3552 116th Congress Senate Agriculture and Food Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit Cardiovascular and respiratory health Emergency medical services and trauma care Infectious and parasitic diseases Livestock

A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide payments to cattle producers to offset losses due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 20, 2020 Introduced by: Rounds, Mike Republican · South Dakota See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Mar 20, 2020
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill requires the Farm Service Agency to provide payments to producers that sold feeder cattle or live cattle during any month in calendar year 2020 to offset losses due to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).

Specifically, payments must be provided (1) in the case of feeder cattle, if the average national sale price per hundredweight for feeder cattle for that month is less than $150; and (2) in the case of live cattle, if the average national sale price per hundredweight for live cattle for that month is less than $121.

A producer may receive payments for not more than 10,000 head of cattle in calendar year 2020. Additionally, a producer must have owned the feeder cattle or live cattle for not less than 30 days before the date on which the cattle were sold.

What's happening now March 20, 2020

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

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 8
All 8 Democratic 3 Republican 5
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Cramer, Kevin
North Dakota · Mar 20, 2020
 R
Daines, Steve
Montana · Mar 20, 2020
 R
Fischer, Deb
Nebraska · Mar 20, 2020
 R
Hoeven, John
North Dakota · Mar 20, 2020
 R
Hyde-Smith, Cindy
Mississippi · Mar 20, 2020
 D
Merkley, Jeff
Oregon · Mar 20, 2020
 D
Smith, Tina
Minnesota · Mar 20, 2020
 D
Wyden, Ron
Oregon · Mar 20, 2020
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3552: A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide payments to cattle producers to offset losses due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and for other purposes.. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3552/
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"S. 3552: A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide payments to cattle producers to offset losses due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and for other purposes.." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3552/.
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S. 3552, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3552/.
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