[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8790 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8790

To extend the wildfire and hurricane indemnity program to cover certain 
       crop losses in calendar year 2020, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 19, 2020

   Mr. Thompson of California (for himself, Mr. Panetta, Ms. Lee of 
  California, Mr. DeFazio, and Mr. Newhouse) introduced the following 
        bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To extend the wildfire and hurricane indemnity program to cover certain 
       crop losses in calendar year 2020, and for other purposes.

    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 ``2020 WHIP+ Reauthorization Act''.

SEC. 2. CROP LOSSES OCCURRING IN CALENDAR YEAR 2020.

    Amounts appropriated by section 791(d) of division B of Public Law 
116-94 shall also be made available for necessary expenses related to 
losses of crops (including smoke-tainted wine grapes) as a consequence 
of wildfires occurring in calendar year 2020 in the same manner as 
other crop losses under the heading ``Department of Agriculture--
Agricultural Programs--Processing, Research and Marketing--Office of 
the Secretary'' in title I of the Additional Supplemental 
Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act, 2019 (Public Law 116-20).
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