[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 658 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 658

  To provide assistance to certain agricultural producers whose crop 
 quality has been adversely effected by drought, heat, wind, excessive 
    moisture, or other natural climatological event; and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 27, 1993

   Mr. Camp introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide assistance to certain agricultural producers whose crop 
 quality has been adversely effected by drought, heat, wind, excessive 
    moisture, or other natural climatological event; and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2245 of 
the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 Public Law 
101-624; 7 U.S.C. note) is amended by striking the word ``may'' in 
subsection (a) and inserting in lieu thereof the word ``shall'', and by 
striking all of subsection (b) of section 2245 and inserting in lieu 
thereof the following:
    ``(b) Producers on a farm of a crop described in subsection (a) 
shall be eligible to receive reduced quality disaster payments only if 
such producers incur due to reduced crop quality a deficiency in the 
value of their production of not less than 35 percent for such crop (as 
determined generally under section 2241, 2242, 2243, or 2244, as 
appropriate).''.

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