[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1574 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1574

To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to require, 
 as a condition on the receipt of direct payments or counter-cyclical 
payments under such Act for rice produced by tenants and sharecroppers 
   in Texas, that the producers on the farm agree to retain the rice 
             cropland in production for the next crop year.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 2, 2003

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to require, 
 as a condition on the receipt of direct payments or counter-cyclical 
payments under such Act for rice produced by tenants and sharecroppers 
   in Texas, that the producers on the farm agree to retain the rice 
             cropland in production for the next crop year.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rice Farmer Fairness Act of 2003''.

SEC. 2. ENHANCED PROTECTION FOR TENANTS AND SHARECROPPERS WHO PRODUCE 
              RICE.

    Section 1105(d) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 
2002 (7 U.S.C. 7915(d)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``In carrying''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2) As a condition on the receipt of direct payments or counter-
cyclical payments for rice produced in Texas when the principal 
producer of the rice is a tenant or sharecropper, the producers on the 
farm shall agree, as part of the agreement required by subsection 
(a)(1), to retain the rice cropland in rice production or a cropping 
system rotation that includes rice production during the next crop 
year.''.
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