[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3870 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3870

  To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to permit certain livestock 
    owners to plant a secondary crop for the use of the producer as 
                            emergency feed.


_______________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 29, 2010

  Mr. Johnson introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to permit certain livestock 
    owners to plant a secondary crop for the use of the producer as 
                            emergency feed.

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

SECTION 1. EMERGENCY EXCEPTION FOR PREVENTED PLANTING.

    Section 508A(c) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 
1508a(c)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``paragraph (6) or'' 
        before ``subsections (d) and (e)''; and
            (2) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``an emergency described 
        in paragraph (6) or'' after ``in the case of''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) Emergency exception.--
                    ``(A) In general.--A producer may plant a second 
                crop on the same acreage for harvest in the same crop 
                year as a first crop and receive full prevented 
                planting indemnity payments under this subsection, if, 
                as determined by the Corporation--
                            ``(i) the producer owns livestock;
                            ``(ii) the affected agricultural operation 
                        of the producer is located in an area that 
                        experienced excessive precipitation that 
                        prevented the producer from planting the first 
                        crop by the final planting date for the crop 
                        established by the Risk Management Agency; and
                            ``(iii) the producer uses the second crop 
                        solely for emergency feed of the livestock of 
                        the producer.
                    ``(B) Effect on actual production history.--In the 
                case of a producer described in subparagraph (A)--
                            ``(i) the adjustment in actual production 
                        history described in paragraph (3) shall be 100 
                        percent of the producer's actual production 
                        history for the agricultural commodity; and
                            ``(ii) the second crop shall not be 
                        considered the crop of record unless the 
                        producer so elects.''.
                                 <all>