[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6074 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6074

    To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to 
 authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to consider variations in the 
   national average market price for different classes of wheat when 
  determining the eligibility of wheat producers for counter-cyclical 
           payments for the 2005, 2006, and 2007 crop years.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 14, 2006

Mrs. McMorris Rodgers (for herself, Mr. Hastings of Washington, and Mr. 
   Simpson) 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 
 authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to consider variations in the 
   national average market price for different classes of wheat when 
  determining the eligibility of wheat producers for counter-cyclical 
           payments for the 2005, 2006, and 2007 crop years.

    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 ``Wheat Counter-Cyclical Payments 
Enhancement Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. USE OF FLEXIBLE EFFECTIVE PRICES FOR DIFFERENT CLASSES OF WHEAT 
              TO DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY OF WHEAT PRODUCERS FOR COUNTER-
              CYCLICAL PAYMENTS.

    Section 1104 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 
(7 U.S.C. 7914) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by inserting ``and subject to 
        subsection (g),'' after ``subsection (a),''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(g) Special Effective Prices for Classes of Wheat.--
            ``(1) Separate effective prices authorized.--For purposes 
        of the 2005, 2006, and 2007 crop years of wheat, the Secretary 
        shall calculate a separate effective price for one or more 
        classes of wheat in recognition of the wide variations in 
        average market prices for different classes of wheat, which 
        when combined under subsection (b) to determine a single 
        national average market price for wheat has deprived producers 
        of those classes of wheat whose price is declining, including 
        soft white wheat, of needed counter-cyclical payments.
            ``(2) Calculation.--For purposes of subsection (a), when 
        the Secretary calculates a separate effective price for a class 
        of wheat under this subsection instead of subsection (b), the 
        effective price for that class of wheat shall be equal to the 
        sum of--
                    ``(A) the higher of--
                            ``(i) the national average market price 
                        received by producers during the 12-month 
                        marketing year for that class of wheat, as 
                        determined by the Secretary; or
                            ``(ii) the national average loan rate for 
                        that class of wheat during that period, as 
                        determined by the Secretary; and
                    ``(B) the payment rate in effect for wheat under 
                section 1103 for the purpose of making direct payments 
                with respect to wheat.''.
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