[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1879 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1879

 To provide disaster assistance to producers for certain losses due to 
          freezing conditions in 1994, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            February 28 (legislative day, February 22), 1994

 Mr. Cochran (for himself and Mr. Lott) 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 disaster assistance to producers for certain losses due to 
          freezing conditions in 1994, 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. DISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR CERTAIN LOSSES DUE TO FREEZING 
              CONDITIONS IN 1994.

    The matter under the heading ``commodity credit corporation fund'' 
under the heading ``Commodity Credit Corporation'' of chapter I of 
Public Law 103-75 (107 Stat. 741) (as amended by the matter under the 
heading ``Commodity Credit Corporation'' of chapter I of Public Law 
103-211) is further amended--
            (1) by inserting after ``title XXII of Public Law 101-624'' 
        the following: ``or as otherwise determined by the Secretary''; 
        and
            (2) by inserting before the period at the end the 
        following: ``: Provided further, That funds made available 
        under this paragraph for the Commodity Credit Corporation shall 
        also be available for payments to producers for the 1994 
        through 1998 orchard crop losses, and 1994 forest crop, 
        livestock, and dairy losses, if the losses are due to freezing 
        conditions in 1994, except that the use of funds made available 
        under this proviso is designated by Congress as an emergency 
        requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced 
        Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 
        901(b)(2)(D)(i)) and the use shall be available only to the 
        extent the President designates the use as an emergency 
        requirement pursuant to such Act''.

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