[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[S. 605 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 605

To require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency assistance 
  to producers for cattle losses that are due to damaging weather or 
 related condition occurring during the 1996-97 winter season, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 17, 1997

Mr. Conrad (for himself and Mr. Dorgan) 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 require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency assistance 
  to producers for cattle losses that are due to damaging weather or 
 related condition occurring during the 1996-97 winter season, 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. EMERGENCY LIVESTOCK LOSS ASSISTANCE.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall provide a 
payment to a producer who certifies to the Secretary that the producer 
has suffered at least a 5 percent loss in the foundation herd 
(including dairy cattle), or at least a 5 percent loss in the offspring 
of the foundation herd, maintained by the producer as a result of 
damaging weather or related condition occurring during the 1996-97 
winter season.
    (b) Amount.--
            (1) In general.--Except as otherwise provided in this 
        subsection, the amount of a payment provided to a producer 
        under this section shall equal the product obtained by 
        multiplying $200 by 95 percent of the number of cattle of the 
        producer, not to exceed 200 cattle, that are lost as a result 
        of damaging weather or related condition occurring during the 
        1996-97 winter season.
            (2) No double benefits.--The total amount of payments that 
        a person shall be entitled to receive under this section and 
        any insurance indemnity policy maintained by the person may not 
        exceed the expected value of the lost cattle.
    (c) Administration.--Except as otherwise provided in this section, 
the terms and conditions of chapter 3 of subtitle B of title XXII of 
the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (Public Law 
101-624) (as in effect before the repeal of that chapter by section 
119(c) of Public Law 103-354 (108 Stat. 3208)) shall apply to payments 
made under this section to the extent determined appropriate by the 
Secretary.
    (d) Funding.--Notwithstanding sections 251 and 252 of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901, 902)--
            (1) amounts and uses of funds made available under this 
        section are designated as emergency requirements pursuant to 
        section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of that Act; and
            (2) the funds and uses shall be available only to the 
        extent that the President submits to Congress an official 
        budget request for a specific dollar amount, and designates the 
        entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement 
        pursuant to that Act.
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