[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2298 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2298

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

                           September 12, 1995

 Mr. Bereuter introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
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. 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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