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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Sep 13, 1999
Emergency Assistance for Farmers and Ranchers Act of 1999 - Title I: Crop Loss Assistance - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency assistance to producers who have disaster-caused 1999 crop losses (including trees from which a crop is harvested).States with respect to crop insurance and such assistance that: (1) producers with insurance shall not be penalized; and (2) producers without insurance shall be required to purchase insurance for crop years 2000 and 2001 in order to receive such assistance.Title II: Market Loss Assistance - Directs the Secretary to provide production loss assistance to producers who are eligible for final FY 1999 production flexibility contract payments. Makes such assistance available in proportion to amounts received under a producer's flexibility contract.(Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to 1999 producers of soybeans and other oilseeds who are eligible for marketing assistance loans. Considers such assistance as payments for purposes of production flexibility contract limits.(Sec. 203) Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to fruit and vegetable producers.(Sec. 204) Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to 1999 producers of quota and additional peanuts.(Sec. 205) Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to tobacco growers in accordance with the National Tobacco Grower Settlement Trust.Title III: Temporary Removal of Limit on Loan Deficiency Payments and Marketing Loan Gains - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to remove limits on marketing loan gains and loan deficiency payments for crop years 1999 and 2000.Title IV: Upland Cotton Price Competitiveness - Amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act to: (1) reduce specified eligibility criteria with respect to upland cotton special marketing assistance; (2) make agricultural commodities pledged to the Commodity Credit Corporation as loan collateral eligible for marketing certificate redemption; (3) eliminate related expenditure caps; (4) revise special import quota provisions; and (5) remove the suspension on in-kind payments and permit such payments to be made as marketing certificates.Title V: Assistance for Livestock and Dairy Producers - Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to livestock and dairy producers for disaster-caused pasture and hay losses.Title VI: Crop Insurance - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to revise provisions regarding: (1) insurance amounts; (2) payment schedules and disclosure; and (3) production history adjustments.Title VII: Freedom to Market - Directs the Comptroller General to examine and report on specified aspects of trade sanctions.(Sec. 702) Prohibits the President from imposing unilateral agricultural or medical sanctions against a foreign government, with an exception for national security reasons.(Sec. 703) Directs the Secretary to make annual reports with respect to foreign sanctions and their effect on U.S. agricultural commodities.(Sec. 704) Directs the Secretary to expand agricultural assistance to offset sanction-affected market losses.Title VIII: Emergency Conservation Program - Directs the Secretary to use specified funds for the emergency conservation program.
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Rep. Hayes, Robin [R-NC-8] · R–NC
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Referred to the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade.
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management, Research and Specialty Crops.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Resource Conservation and Credit.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8475)
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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