[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3395 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3395

To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to extend certain supplemental 
               agricultural disaster assistance programs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 17, 2012

  Mr. Merkley 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 Federal Crop Insurance Act to extend certain supplemental 
               agricultural disaster assistance programs.

    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 ``Wildfire and Drought Relief for 
Ranchers and Farmers Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL AGRICULTURAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

    Section 531 of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1531) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ``The Secretary shall 
        use such sums as are necessary from the Trust Fund'' and 
        inserting ``Of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, 
        the Secretary shall use such sums as are necessary for fiscal 
        year 2012'';
            (2) in subsection (d)(2), by striking ``The Secretary shall 
        use such sums as are necessary from the Trust Fund'' and 
        inserting ``Of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, 
        the Secretary shall use such sums as are necessary for fiscal 
        year 2012'';
            (3) in subsection (e)(1)--
                    (A) by striking ``The Secretary'' and inserting 
                ``Of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, the 
                Secretary''; and
                    (B) by striking ``per year from the Trust Fund'' 
                and inserting ``for fiscal year 2012'';
            (4) in subsection (f)(2)(A), by striking ``the Secretary 
        shall use such sums as are necessary from the Trust Fund'' and 
        inserting ``of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, 
        the Secretary shall use such sums as are necessary for fiscal 
        year 2012''; and
            (5) in subsection (i), by striking ``This section'' and 
        inserting ``Except as otherwise provided in this section, this 
        section''.
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