3.0.0 3644 2019-11-15T21:44:59Z 2019-11-15T21:44:59Z Senate S S 2008-09-27 110 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-09-27T17:36:07Z Farm Relief Act of 2008 110 7196 HR 2008-11-19 Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management. Identical bill CRS 2008-09-27 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2008-09-27 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000550 Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA] MARY LANDRIEU D LA N H001016 Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX] KAY HUTCHISON R TX BAILEY 2008-09-27 True L000035 Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR] BLANCHE LINCOLN D AR LAMBERT 2008-09-27 True P000590 Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR] Mark Pryor D AR Lunsford 2008-09-27 True W000437 Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS] Roger Wicker R MS F. 2008-09-27 True C000567 Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS] Thad Cochran R MS 2008-09-27 True V000127 Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA] David Vitter R LA 2008-10-01 False Agriculture and Food Agricultural subsidies Appropriations Aquaculture Disaster relief Economics and Public Finance Emergency Management Florida Louisiana Storage Sugar Texas Agriculture and Food 00 2008-09-27 Introduced in Senate 2009-01-09T22:56:17Z Farm Relief Act of 2008 - Amends the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 to appropriate funds for: (1) emergency financial assistance to producers on a farm that incurred qualifying natural disaster-caused quantity or quality losses for the 2008 crop; (2) certain processors in Florida for natural disaster-caused crop and other losses in 2008; (3) certain first processors of sugarcane that operate in a county affected by a natural disaster or obtain sugarcane from a county affected by a natural disaster in Louisiana; and (4) certain sugarcane growers in Texas for natural disaster-caused demurrage, storage, and transportation costs in 2008.

Provides specified Commodity Credit Corporation funds for grants to state departments of agriculture for assistance to eligible catfish producers to help offset natural disaster-caused feed costs or economic losses in 2008.

]]> Farm Relief Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Farm Relief Act of 2008 Display Title Farm Relief Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide crop disaster assistance to agricultural producers that suffered qualifying quantity or quality losses for the 2008 crop year due to a natural disaster. Introduced in Senate 2008-09-27T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s3644is/xml/BILLS-110s3644is.xml 2008-09-27 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. 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.