[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5405 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5405

To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to provide a limited exception to 
  the prohibition on price loss coverage payments or agriculture risk 
coverage payments when the sum of the base acres on a farm is 10 acres 
                                or less.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 22, 2018

  Mr. Rouzer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to provide a limited exception to 
  the prohibition on price loss coverage payments or agriculture risk 
coverage payments when the sum of the base acres on a farm is 10 acres 
                                or less.

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

SECTION 1. EXCEPTION TO PROHIBITION ON PRICE LOSS COVERAGE PAYMENTS OR 
              AGRICULTURE RISK COVERAGE PAYMENTS FOR CERTAIN FARMS WITH 
              MINIMAL PAYMENT ACRES.

    Section 1114(d)(1) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 
9014(d)(1)) is amended by adding before the period at the end the 
following: ``, unless the sum of the base acres on the farm, when 
combined with the base acres of other farms in which the producer has 
an interest, is more than 10 acres''.
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