[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3900 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3900

  To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to provide greater 
             planting flexibility, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 25, 1996

 Mr. Combest (for himself, Mr. Roberts, Mr. de la Garza, Mr. Stenholm, 
 Mr. Allard, Mr. Barrett of Nebraska, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, Mr. 
Lucas of Oklahoma, Mr. Chambliss, Mr. Thornberry, Mr. Edwards, and Mr. 
   Tejeda) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to provide greater 
             planting flexibility, 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. INCREASED PLANTING FLEXIBILITY.

    Section 118 of the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 
7218) is amended by adding the following new paragraph to subsection 
(b)(2):
            ``(D) by a producer on contract acreage following a crop 
        that fails due to conditions beyond the producer's control.''.

SEC. 2. CONFORMING AMENDMENT.

    Subsection 118(b)(2) is amended:
            (a) in paragraph (B), by striking ``or''; and
            (b) in clause (ii) of paragraph (C), by striking 
        ``vegetable.'' and inserting ``vegetable; or''.

SEC. 3. CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM REGULATIONS.

    Not later than September 15, 1996, the Secretary shall issue 
regulations to implement the Conservation Reserve Program (16 U.S.C. 
3831 et seq.), as amended by section 332 of the Federal Agriculture 
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-127, April 4, 1996).
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