[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5184 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5184

  To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to adjust the base period of 
    milk production when calculating refunds of assessments made in 
calendar year 1994 under section 204(h) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 
  on milk producers affected by floods and excessive moisture during 
                          calendar year 1993.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 5, 1994

 Mr. Gunderson (for himself and Mr. Roberts) introduced the following 
        bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to adjust the base period of 
    milk production when calculating refunds of assessments made in 
calendar year 1994 under section 204(h) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 
  on milk producers affected by floods and excessive moisture during 
                          calendar year 1993.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PRODUCER REFUNDS.

    Section 204(h) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1446e(h)) 
is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)(B), by inserting before the semicolon 
        at the end the following: ``(except that, in the case of a 
        producer who owns and operates a farm in North Dakota, South 
        Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, 
        or Wisconsin, the marketings of the producer for calendar year 
        1994 may be compared to the marketings of the producer for 
        calendar year 1992 or 1993)''; and
            (2) in paragraph (3)--
                    (A) in the first sentence, by inserting before the 
                period at the end the following: ``(except that, in the 
                case of a producer who owns or operates a farm in North 
                Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, 
                Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, or Wisconsin, the marketings 
                of the producer in calendar year 1994 may be compared 
                to the marketings of the producer for calendar year 
                1992 or 1993)''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new 
                sentence: ``In the case of a producer who owns or 
                operates a farm in North Dakota, South Dakota, 
                Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, 
                or Wisconsin and who has not increased marketings in 
                calendar year 1994 relative to marketings in calendar 
                year 1992, a refund due the producer may not be paid by 
                the Secretary until October 1, 1995.''.
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