[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 625 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 625

   To require the Secretary of Agriculture to use certain unexpended 
    disaster assistance funds, to the extent necessary, to provide 
   emergency crop loss assistance for certain losses, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 22 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

Mr. McCain (for himself, Mr. Cochran, and Mr. Coverdell) 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 require the Secretary of Agriculture to use certain unexpended 
    disaster assistance funds, to the extent necessary, to provide 
   emergency crop loss assistance for certain losses, 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. EMERGENCY CROP LOSS ASSISTANCE.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall use unexpended disaster assistance 
funds, to the extent necessary to carry out this section, to provide 
emergency crop loss assistance to producers for losses to a crop as a 
result of damaging weather or related condition that occurred during 
the period beginning January 1, 1993, and ending March 31, 1993, under 
the same terms and conditions as assistance provided under chapter 3 of 
subtitle B of title XXII of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 1421 note) and the provisions of law 
referred to in subsection (d).
    (b) Emergency Loans.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary of Agriculture shall make emergency loans under subtitle 
C of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1961 et 
seq.) with respect to damage to an annual crop as a result of damaging 
weather or related condition described in subsection (a) without regard 
to the purchase of crop insurance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act 
(7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) by the producer who requests such a loan.
    (c) Administration.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall issue 
        regulations and take such other actions as are necessary to 
        permit producers to apply for assistance under this section not 
        later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
            (2) Applications.--To be eligible for assistance under this 
        section, a producer must apply to the Secretary for the 
        assistance not later than 45 days after the date of enactment 
        of this Act.
    (d) Definition of unexpended disaster assistance funds.--For 
purposes of this section, the term ``unexpended disaster assistance 
funds'' means funds made available under the following provisions of 
law that have not been expended on or before the date of enactment of 
this Act:
            (1) The matter under the heading ``Commodity Credit 
        Corporation'' under the heading ``DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE'' 
        of chapter III of title I of Public Law 102-229 (105 Stat. 
        1712; 7 U.S.C. 1421 note).
            (2) The matter under the heading ``crop losses'', and the 
        matter under the heading ``tree assistance program'', under the 
        heading ``Commodity Credit Corporation Fund'' under the heading 
        ``Commodity Credit Corporation'' under the heading ``DEPARTMENT 
        OF AGRICULTURE'' of chapter I of title XI of Public Law 102-368 
        (106 Stat. 1134).

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