[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2147 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2147

  To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to permit producers greater 
discretion in deciding to purchase catastrophic risk protection and to 
 amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to clarify the prevented planting 
            rule for the calculation of crop acreage bases.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 31, 1995

Mr. Roberts (for himself, Mr. Lucas, and Mrs. Chenoweth) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to permit producers greater 
discretion in deciding to purchase catastrophic risk protection and to 
 amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to clarify the prevented planting 
            rule for the calculation of crop acreage bases.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ELIGIBILITY FOR DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS DESPITE 
              FAILURE TO OBTAIN AUTHORITY TO CATASTROPHIC RISK 
              PROTECTION.

    Section 508(b)(7) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 
1508(b)(7)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C); 
        and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following new 
        subparagraph:
                    ``(B) Exception.--Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), 
                a producer may decline to obtain catastrophic risk 
                protection, yet remain eligible for any price support 
                or production adjustment program, the conservation 
                reserve program, or any benefit described in section 
                371 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, 
                if the producer agrees in writing to waive any 
                eligibility for emergency crop loss assistance in 
                connection with losses to any crop for which the 
                producer declines to obtain catastrophic risk 
                protection.''.

SEC. 2. EFFECT OF PREVENTED PLANTING ON CALCULATION OF CROP ACREAGE 
              BASES.

    Section 503(f) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1463(f)) 
is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``on the acreage of 
        such farm'' and all that follows through the period at the end 
        of the sentence and inserting ``on the failed acreage or any 
        other acreage of the farm consistent with the conservation plan 
        for the farm prepared in accordance with section 1212 of the 
        Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3812).''; and
            (2) in the second sentence--
                    (A) by inserting after ``subsection'' the 
                following: ``(but not to exceed the total of the failed 
                acreage)''; and
                    (B) by striking ``such acreage'' and inserting 
                ``the substitute acreage''.
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