[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1214 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1214

     To create an emergency relief fund for agricultural producers.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 13, 1993

     Mr. Grassley (for himself, Mr. Durenberger, and Mr. Pressler) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
           Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
     To create an emergency relief fund for agricultural producers.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Relief Fund Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. EMERGENCY DISASTER RELIEF.

    The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, in the administration of 
the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) with respect to 
the 1993 crop year, shall--
            (1) extend the planting date to July 5 for soybeans;
            (2) provide an indemnity to agricultural producers who 
        purchased crop insurance but were unable, because of any 
        natural disaster, to plant soybeans by such date, in an amount 
        equal to 40 percent coverage at either--
                    (A) actual production history; or
                    (B) 85 percent of Agricultural Stabilization and 
                Conservation Service county yield;
            (3) provide special disaster benefits, consisting of 40 
        percent coverage for unplanted areas, to agricultural producers 
        who, because of any natural disasters, were unable to plant 
        anything for this crop year and did not purchase the prevented 
        planting rider;
            (4) provide the difference between the amount agricultural 
        producers who--
                    (A) insured for corn; and
                    (B) because of any natural disaster, switched to 
                soybeans;
        get for their soybean crop and the insured rate they would have 
        gotten for corn; and
            (5) provide to agricultural producers who had no crop 
        insurance but who suffered losses because of any natural 
        disaster, opportunity for a retroactive sign up for a 35 
        percent crop insurance policy, conditioned on the producers' 
        purchase of crop insurance for the next three years at 50 
        percent level at the highest market price election.

SEC. 3. FUNDING.

    All expenses, including administrative expenses, that arise by 
reason of section 2 shall be paid from an emergency relief fund, which 
the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation shall establish using the 
authority to borrow from the Commodity Credit Corporation under section 
516(c) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1516(c)) or to issue 
notes or other obligations to the Secretary of the Treasury under 
section 516(d) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1516(d)).

SEC. 4. POLICY REVIEW.

    Section 508 of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508) is 
amended by adding after the second sentence the following: ``Beginning 
with the spring of 1994 crop year, the Corporation shall include within 
any insurance offered under this section protection against the 
inability to plant a crop due to an insurable cause as defined in the 
preceding sentence, reduced according to proper insurance practices, 
for crops planted within a period specified by the Corporation after 
the final planting date established for the crop''.

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