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Version 17 · Reported to House with amendment(s) · Aug 5, 1999
Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 1999 - Title I: Strengthening the Farm Safety Net - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to revise the crop insurance premium schedule for additional coverage, including elimination of the separate coverage-based premium criteria.Requires plans to disclose premium amounts paid by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.(Sec. 102) Establishes a premium schedule for other insurance plans based upon a percentage of the total premium used to define loss ratio and certain dollar amounts to be paid by the Corporation.(Sec. 103) States that if the Corporation uses actual production history to determine insurable yields for a commodity, a producer may elect, in a crop year where the yield is below 60 percent of the transitional yield, to exclude and replace the recorded yield with 60 percent of the transitional yield.Directs the Corporation to develop a methodology to adjust actual production history to reflect a producer's participation in effective pest control efforts.(Sec. 104) Directs the Corporation to periodically review crop insurance plan rating methodologies, including area and commodity specific premium reductions.(Sec. 105) Repeals authority for the cost of production risk protection and the assigned yield for new producer pilot programs.Authorizes the Corporation to offer pilot programs: (1) on a regional, State, or national basis; and (2) on a three-year, renewable, basis. Provides for the expedited consideration of certain limited-scope pilot programs.Directs the Corporation to conduct one or more livestock (cattle, sheep, swine, goats, poultry) pilot programs as of FY 2001, including the use of futures and options contracts and insurance plans. Sets forth specified fiscal year expenditure caps. Authorizes the use of Corporation insurance fund amounts for such programs.(Sec. 106) Authorizes the Corporation to provide a cost of production price election under a production cost-based insurance plan.(Sec. 107) Authorizes the Corporation to provide performance-based discounts to producers of a commodity with good insurance or production experience relative to other producers in the same area.Authorizes a 20 percent premium discount in crop year 2000 to producers of wheat, barley, oats or rye whose crops have been subject to reduced prices due to scab or vomitoxin damage.(Sec. 108) Directs the Corporation, as of crop year 2000, to offer an alternative risk protection coverage that indemnifies on an area yield and loss basis and provides, on a uniform national basis, a higher combination of yield and price protection.(Sec. 109) Authorizes cooperatives and other nonprofit trade associations to pay catastrophic insurance fees on behalf of a consenting member of such association.(Sec. 110) Provides with respect to prevented planting coverage, that: (1) a producer may elect out of coverage, with a corresponding premium reduction; (2) the Corporation shall offer an equal percentage of coverage for each commodity; (3) area-wide conditions shall be required for payment; and (4) substitute commodity planting shall be permitted, under specified conditions.(Sec. 111) Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to make noninsured crop disaster assistance available to only persons with adjusted gross incomes of $2 million dollars or less.(Sec. 112) Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to direct the Corporation to enter into a contract by crop year 2000 to analyze its quality loss adjustment procedures and make adjustments to more accurately reflect local quality discounts applied to insured commodities.Title II: Improving Program Efficiencies - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to prohibit issuance of more than one insurance policy on the same acreage during a crop year unless such coverage is limited to catastrophic risk protection insurance, with an exception for areas with customary double-cropping practices.(Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to improve program compliance and integrity through development of plans to: (1) reconcile producer information received by the Corporation and the Farm Service Agency (FSA); and (2) use FSA field infrastructure to identify and eliminate waste and fraud. Provides for related Corporation consultation with State FSA committees.(Sec. 203) Authorizes the Corporation to impose specified fines and program disqualifications upon an agent, producer, loss adjuster, insurance provider, or other person for willful and intentional false information provided with respect to an insurance plan or policy.(Sec. 204) Provides for protection of confidential information, including application of specified (confidentiality) penalties under the Food Security Act of 1985.(Sec. 205) Sets forth record keeping and reporting provisions.(Sec. 206) Requires that any person who sells or solicits Federal Crop Insurance Act policies in a State be licensed in such State.Title III: Administration - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to revise the composition of the Corporation Board of Directors.(Sec. 302) Directs the Corporation to reimburse applicants for research, development, and maintenance costs for insurance policies that are approved and offered for producer sale.(Sec. 303) Directs the Corporation to contract: (1) with qualified parties to research and develop insurance policies for underserved commodities, including specialty crops; and (2) for one or more revenue coverage plans designed to maximize crop profits through market price fluctuations.Prohibits the Corporation from conducting its own policy research and development.Authorizes the Corporation to enter into partnership contracts with private and public entities for risk management development and implementation, whose objectives shall include the areas of: (1) weather notification; (2) pest management and fertilization; (3) crop and livestock techniques; (4) labor issues; and (5) fire prevention. Sets forth funding provisions.(Sec. 304) Provides specified funding for research and development on specialty crops and under-served communities and authorizes appropriations for reimbursement for research development and maintenance costs.(Sec. 305) Authorizes an approved insurance provider, university, or trade association or cooperative, or other person to submit a policy or plan for Board approval. States that if the Board does not approve or disapprove an application within 120 days, it shall be deemed approved.(Sec. 306) Directs the Corporation to contract for rating insurance plans.(Sec. 307) Provides for the electronic availability of crop insurance information.(Sec. 308) Authorizes, as of FY 2001, the developer of a policy to receive a fee for such policy's use by another insurance provider.(Sec. 309) States that scientifically sound sustainable and organic farming practices shall be considered good farming practices under the Federal Crop Insurance Act.(Sec. 310) Adjusts provider reimbursement levels for loss adjustment under the catastrophic risk protection policy and for operating and administrative expenses for additional levels of coverage.Authorizes the Corporation to renegotiate the Standard Reinsurance Agreement.
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Rep. Combest, Larry [R-TX-19] · R–TX
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Became Public Law No: 106-224.
Became Public Law No: 106-224.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 91 - 4. Record Vote Number: 115.
Senate roll call 115 · Individual votesConference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 91 - 4. Record Vote Number: 115.
Senate roll call 115 · Individual votesConference report considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S4416-4443)
On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by voice vote. (consideration: CR H3817-3828)
Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Conference report agreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by voice vote.(consideration: CR H3817-3828)
The previous question was ordered without objection.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the conference report.
Mr. Combest brought up conference report H. Rept. 106-639 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 512. (consideration: CR S4416-4443)
Rule H. Res. 512 passed House.
Conference papers: Senate report and manager's statement and message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 512 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 2559. All points of order against the conference report and against its consideration are waived. The conference report shall be considered as read.
Conference report H. Rept. 106-639 filed. (text of conference report: CR H3763-3804)
Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 106-639 filed.(text of conference report: CR H3763-3804)
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
The Speaker appointed conferees: Combest, Barrett (NE), Boehner, Ewing, Pombo, Stenholm, Condit, Peterson (MN), and Dooley.
On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection. (consideration: CR H1621)
Mr. Combest asked unanimous consent that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Senate insists on its amendment, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Lugar, Helms, Cochran, Coverdell, Roberts, Harkin, Leahy, Conrad and Kerrey.
Passed Senate in lieu of S. 2251 with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 95 - 5. Record Vote Number: 44. (text: CR S1631-1642)
Senate roll call 44 · Individual votesPassed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate in lieu of S. 2251 with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 95 - 5. Record Vote Number: 44.(text: CR S1631-1642)
Senate roll call 44 · Individual votesSenate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S. 2251 amended.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S1627-1642)
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 2559.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On passage Passed by voice vote.
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by voice vote.
The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2559.
DEBATE - The Committee is debating the amendment offered by Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas.
DEBATE - The Committee is debating the amendment offered by Mr. LaHood.
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 2559.
The Speaker designated the Honorable Steven C. LaTourette to act as Chairman of the Committee.
House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 308 and Rule XXIII.
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2559 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Makes in order the Committee on Agriculture amendment in the nature of a substitute as an original bill for the purpose of amendment, modified by the amendments printed in H. Rept. 106-346. Measure will be read by title. Makes in order only those amendments preprinted in the Congressional Record.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 308. (consideration: CR H8978-8996)
Rule H. Res. 308 passed House.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 308 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2559 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Makes in order the Committee on Agriculture amendment in the nature of a substitute as an original bill for the purpose of amendment, modified by the amendments printed in H.Rept. 106-346. Measure will be read by title. Specified amendments are in order. Makes in order only those amendments preprinted in the Congressional Record.
Supplemental report filed by the Committee on Agriculture, H. Rept. 106-300, Part II.
Supplemental report filed by the Committee on Agriculture, H. Rept. 106-300, Part II.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 179.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Agriculture. H. Rept. 106-300, Part I.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Agriculture. H. Rept. 106-300, Part I.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management, Research and Specialty Crops.
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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