[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 795 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 795

 To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to improve education and risk 
             management assistance, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 14, 2023

  Mr. Murphy (for himself, Ms. Collins, and Mr. King) 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 improve education and risk 
             management assistance, 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 ``Agricultural Management Assistance 
Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. EDUCATION AND RISK MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE.

    Section 524 of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1524) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ``for the 
                purpose of educating agricultural producers and 
                providing technical assistance to agricultural 
                producers'' and inserting ``for the purpose of 
                educating and providing technical assistance to 
                agricultural producers and approved crop insurance 
                providers, including language translation services as 
                appropriate,'';
                    (B) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
                        (A), by striking ``education, and outreach'' 
                        and inserting ``education, outreach, and 
                        language translation'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (E), by striking 
                        ``and'' at the end after the semicolon;
                            (iii) by redesignating subparagraph (F) as 
                        subparagraph (G); and
                            (iv) by inserting after subparagraph (E) 
                        the following:
                    ``(F) Federal crop insurance providers, especially 
                with respect to the whole farm diversified risk 
                management insurance plan developed under section 
                522(c)(7); and''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (4), by striking ``paragraph 
                (3)(E)'' and inserting ``paragraph (3) with respect to 
                the entities described in subparagraphs (E) and (F) of 
                that paragraph''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
                        (A), by striking ``subsection to--'' and 
                        inserting ``subsection--'';
                            (ii) in each of subparagraphs (A) through 
                        (F), by inserting ``to'' before the first word 
                        of the subparagraph;
                            (iii) in subparagraph (C)--
                                    (I) in the matter preceding clause 
                                (i), by striking ``production or 
                                marketing diversification or'';
                                    (II) in clause (ii), by inserting 
                                ``areawide'' before ``integrated'';
                                    (III) in clause (iii), by striking 
                                ``or'' at the end after the semicolon; 
                                and
                                    (IV) by striking clause (iv) and 
                                inserting the following:
                            ``(iv) soil health improvements;
                            ``(v) development of sustainable water 
                        sources and irrigation;
                            ``(vi) perennial crop establishment, 
                        including establishment of agroforestry 
                        systems;
                            ``(vii) integration of livestock;
                            ``(viii) aerobic composting of crop and 
                        livestock waste; or
                            ``(ix) other conservation practices 
                        determined by the Secretary to reduce the risk 
                        to a farm of financial loss due to the regional 
                        impacts of climate change;'';
                            (iv) by redesignating subparagraphs (D) 
                        through (F) as subparagraphs (E) through (G), 
                        respectively;
                            (v) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the 
                        following:
                    ``(D) to mitigate financial risk through production 
                or marketing diversification, including through--
                            ``(i) developing or implementing a plan to 
                        create marketing opportunities for the 
                        producer, including through value-added 
                        processing;
                            ``(ii) developing or implementing a plan to 
                        establish market infrastructure for the 
                        producer to support enterprise diversification, 
                        including drying and storage facilities for 
                        small grains from resource-conserving crop 
                        rotations;
                            ``(iii) organic farming; and
                            ``(iv) food safety certification;''; and
                            (vi) in subparagraph (G) (as so 
                        redesignated), by striking ``(E)'' and 
                        inserting ``(F)'';
                    (B) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) by striking ``The total amount'' and 
                        inserting the following:
                    ``(A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), the 
                total amount'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (A) (as so 
                        designated), by striking ``for any year may not 
                        exceed $50,000'' and inserting ``for any 5-year 
                        period may not exceed $200,000''; and
                            (iii) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) Exclusion of other federal funds.--Any 
                payments made to a person described in subparagraph (A) 
                for carrying out activities described in paragraph (2) 
                that are not made pursuant to this subsection shall not 
                count for purposes of the payment limitation 
                established under that subparagraph.'';
                    (C) in paragraph (4)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (B)--
                                    (I) in clause (i), by striking 
                                ``$10,000,000'' and inserting 
                                ``$30,000,000'';
                                    (II) by striking clause (ii); and
                                    (III) by striking the subparagraph 
                                designation and heading and all that 
                                follows through ``Except as provided in 
                                clause (ii), the'' in clause (i) and 
                                inserting the following:
                    ``(B) Funding.--The''; and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (C)--
                                    (I) in clause (ii), by striking 
                                ``to provide'' and inserting ``to carry 
                                out paragraph (2)(D), including 
                                providing''; and
                                    (II) in clause (iii), by striking 
                                ``(F)'' and inserting ``(G)''; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Authorization of appropriations.--In addition to 
        amounts made available under paragraph (4), there is authorized 
        to be appropriated to carry out this section $20,000,000 for 
        fiscal year 2023 and each fiscal year thereafter, to remain 
        available until expended.''.
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