[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2343 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2343

 To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to authorize the Secretary of 
  Agriculture to provide supplemental crop disaster assistance under 
             certain circumstances, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 14, 1995

  Mr. Thompson (for himself and Mr. Wicker) 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 authorize the Secretary of 
  Agriculture to provide supplemental crop disaster assistance under 
             certain circumstances, 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. SUPPLEMENTAL CROP DISASTER ASSISTANCE.

    The Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new section:

``SEC. 522. SUPPLEMENTAL CROP DISASTER ASSISTANCE.

    ``The Secretary may provide supplemental crop disaster assistance 
to agricultural producers if the Secretary determines that the amount 
of assistance otherwise provided under this Act is insufficient and 
that extraordinary circumstances warrant the assistance.''.
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