[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5992 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5992

   To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to modify eligibility for 
prevented planting insurance under certain drought conditions, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 19, 2023

  Mr. Harder of California (for himself and Mr. Mann) introduced the 
                             following bill

                            October 25, 2023

                Referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to modify eligibility for 
prevented planting insurance under certain drought conditions, 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 ``Protecting Farmers from Drought Act 
of 2023''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY FOR PREVENTED PLANTING INSURANCE UNDER CERTAIN 
              DROUGHT CONDITIONS.

    Section 508A(c) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 
1508a(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) 1-in-5 rule for certain drought conditions.--
                    ``(A) Definitions.--In this paragraph:
                            ``(i) Covered county.--The term `covered 
                        county' means a county that experienced, in 
                        each of 3 consecutive years, extreme drought 
                        (D3 or worse intensity), as measured by, and 
                        indicated in a report of, the United States 
                        Drought Monitor, in any area of the county at 
                        any time during the normal planting period.
                            ``(ii) Covered rule.--The term `covered 
                        rule' means the eligibility requirement for 
                        prevented planting insurance, described in 
                        section 17(f)(8) of the most recent version of 
                        the Common Crop Insurance Policy Basic 
                        Provisions, under which planting of a crop must 
                        have occurred once in the 4 most recent crop 
                        years preceding the current crop year (commonly 
                        referred to as the `1 in 4 rule').
                    ``(B) 1-in-5 rule.--The covered rule shall be 
                modified for a covered county to require the planting 
                of a crop once in the 5 most recent crop years 
                preceding the current crop year.''.
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