[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1235 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  1st Session
                                S. 1235

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 13 (legislative day, September 5), 1995

  Mr. Cochran introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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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:

``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 provided under this Act is insufficient and that 
extraordinary circumstances warrant the assistance.''.
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