[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3554 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3554

 To amend the crop disaster assistance program for 2003 to clarify the 
   manner in which the Secretary of Agriculture is required to make 
          assistance available to producers under the program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 28, 2005

Mr. Goode (for himself and Mr. McIntyre) introduced the following bill; 
           which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the crop disaster assistance program for 2003 to clarify the 
   manner in which the Secretary of Agriculture is required to make 
          assistance available to producers under the program.

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

SECTION 1. ADMINISTRATION OF CROP DISASTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR 2003.

    Section 101(a)(3) of chapter 1 of division B of the Military 
Construction Appropriations and Emergency Hurricane Supplemental 
Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108-324; 118 Stat. 1232) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``The Secretary'' and inserting the 
        following:
                    ``(A) Compliance with prior methods.--Except as 
                provided in subparagraph (B), the Secretary''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(B) Treatment of carry over stocks.--The 
                Secretary shall not take into consideration carry over 
                pounds for the 2002 crop of a commodity in determining 
                the payment to be made to a producer under this 
                subsection for qualifying crop losses for the 2003 crop 
                of the same commodity.''.
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