[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2905 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 2905

  To require a study regarding risk management fund accounts for farm 
                         owners and operators.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 1996

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require a study regarding risk management fund accounts for farm 
                         owners and operators.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. STUDY REGARDING RISK MANAGEMENT FUND ACCOUNTS.

    Not later than 12 months after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with other 
appropriate Federal agencies, shall submit to the Congress a report 
detailing the results of a study regarding the establishment of risk 
management fund accounts, whose use would involve--
            (1) farm program payments by the Federal Government to risk 
        management fund accounts of farm owners and operators;
            (2) optional contributions by farm owners and operators to 
        such accounts; and
            (3) penalty-free withdrawals by a farm owner or operator 
        from the farm owner or operator's risk management fund account 
        only in defined low-income years.
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