[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1828 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1828

To provide that producers are eligible to receive disaster payments for 
the 1993, 1994, and 1995 crops of papaya that would have been harvested 
     if the plants had not been destroyed, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             February 4 (legislative day, January 25), 1994

 Mr. Akaka (for himself and Mr. Inouye) 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 provide that producers are eligible to receive disaster payments for 
the 1993, 1994, and 1995 crops of papaya that would have been harvested 
     if the plants had not been destroyed, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Papaya Disaster Assistance Act of 
1994''.

SEC. 2. DISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR PAPAYA PRODUCERS.

    The second proviso of the matter under the heading ``disaster 
assistance'' under the heading ``Commodity Credit Corporation'' of 
chapter I of the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1993 (Public Law 
103-50; 107 Stat. 241) is amended by inserting before the colon at the 
end the following: ``, including payments to producers for the 1993, 
1994, and 1995 crops of papaya that (1) would have been harvested if 
the plants had not been destroyed, and (2) would not have produced 
fruit for a lifetime total of more than 3 crop years based on normal 
cultivation practices, except that the payments shall be made only to 
the extent that claims for the payments are filed not later than the 
date that is 60 days after the date of enactment of the Papaya Disaster 
Assistance Act of 1994''.

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