3.0.0 2009 2023-01-13T04:49:34Z 2023-01-13T04:49:34Z Senate S S 2005-11-15 109 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2005-11-15T20:25:09Z Agriculture Hurricane Recovery Act of 2005 109 4330 HR 2005-11-15 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Ways and Means, and Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. Identical bill CRS 2005-11-15 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12844-12847) IntroReferral 2005-11-15 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001162 Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL] Mel Martinez R FL N N000032 Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL] CLARENCE NELSON D FL WILLIAM 2005-11-15 True Agriculture and Food Administrative fees Administrative procedure Agricultural conservation Agricultural credit Agricultural labor Agricultural machinery Alabama Animals Aquaculture Building construction Capital gains tax Citrus fruits Commerce Crop insurance Department of Agriculture Depreciation and amortization Disaster loans Disaster relief Economics and Public Finance Energy Environmental Protection Farms Finance and Financial Sector Fines (Penalties) Fisheries Floods Florida Food relief Food safety Forestry Fruit Gasoline Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Grazing Home repair and improvement Horticulture Housing and Community Development Housing subsidies Hurricane aftermath legislation Hurricanes Income tax Labor and Employment Law Livestock Losses Louisiana Lumber trade Maintenance and repair Marine and coastal resources, fisheries Marketing Migrant labor Mississippi Nuts Off-budget expenditures Poultry Public Lands and Natural Resources Red tide Reforestation Refuse and refuse disposal Residential rehabilitation Seafood Seasonal labor Seeds Shellfish Small business Soil erosion Sugar Tax deductions Taxation Texas Transportation and Public Works Trees Tropical agriculture Vegetables Water Resources Development Water quality Wetlands Agriculture and Food 00 2005-11-15 Introduced in Senate 2006-01-27T18:33:50Z Agriculture Hurricane Recovery Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency assistance to farm or aquacultural producers (other than sugarcane producers) in a disaster county who incurred qualifying crop or quality losses with respect to the 2004, 2005, or 2006 crop due to damaging weather or related condition. Limits: (1) assistance to only one crop year; and (2) 2006 crop losses to only those losses caused by a 2005 hurricane or tropical storm.

Directs the Secretary to make emergency financial assistance to: (1) commercial ornamental nursery and fernery producers in a disaster county for eligible inventory losses due to a 2005 hurricane; (2) tropical fruit producers in a disaster county who have suffered a qualifying loss due to a 2005 hurricane; (3) citrus and vegetable producers in a disaster county for losses caused by a 2005 hurricane or tropical storm; (4) certain sugar processors in Florida and Louisiana to compensate first processors and producers for crop and other losses related to 2005 hurricanes, tropical storms, excessive rains, and floods; (5) livestock producers in a disaster county for 2005 or 2006 losses (as elected by a producer); and (6) producers in a disaster county for specified infrastructure losses caused by a 2005 hurricane.

Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to include nursery trees, Christmas trees, pecan trees, timber, and forest products in the tree assistance program. Waives specified cost-sharing requirements related to 2005 hurricane assistance.

Amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to include nursery or fernery crop producers in the emergency conservation program. Provides assistance for farm producers in a disaster county for repairing structures, barns, storage facilities, poultry houses, beehives, greenhouses, and shade houses due to 2005 hurricane damage.

Provides emergency grants for low-income migrant and seasonal farmworker assistance.

Provides assistance for: (1) reseeding, rehabilitation, and restoration of oyster reefs in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, or Mississippi; (2) fisheries disaster assistance; and (3) lump sum payments to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida for assistance to persons in a disaster county who have experienced significant economic hardship due to the loss of fisheries, oysters, lobsters, stone crabs, or clams, destroyed or damaged processing facilities, or closures due to red tide or other water quality issues.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to timber losses resulting from Hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Rita, or Wilma to: (1) increase allowable reforestation expenses; and (2) exempt such losses from capital loss limits.

]]> Agriculture Hurricane Recovery Act of 2005 Display Title Agriculture Hurricane Recovery Act of 2005 Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide assistance to agricultural producers whose operations were severely damaged by the hurricanes of 2005. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Agriculture Hurricane Recovery Act of 2005 Introduced in Senate 2005-11-15T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s2009is/xml/BILLS-109s2009is.xml 2005-11-15 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12844-12847) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.