[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 124 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 124

To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to suspend the requirement that 
 rental payments under the conservation reserve program be reduced by 
 reason of harvesting or grazing conducted in response to a drought or 
                            other emergency.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 9, 2003

  Mr. Roberts 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 Food Security Act of 1985 to suspend the requirement that 
 rental payments under the conservation reserve program be reduced by 
 reason of harvesting or grazing conducted in response to a drought or 
                            other emergency.

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

SECTION 1. SUSPENSION OF RENTAL PAYMENT REDUCTION FOR HARVESTING OR 
              GRAZING CONDUCTED IN RESPONSE TO DROUGHT OR OTHER 
              EMERGENCY.

    Section 1232(a)(7)(A)(iii) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
U.S.C. 3832(a)(7)(A)(iii)) is amended by inserting before the semicolon 
the following: ``, except that this clause shall not apply during the 
2002 calendar year''.
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