Bill113th Congress

S. 141

A bill to make supplemental agricultural disaster assistance available for fiscal years 2012 and 2013, and for other purposes.

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Introduced
Jan 24, 2013
Origin Chamber
Senate
Policy Area
Agriculture and Food
Latest Action
Jan 24, 2013

Sponsor

Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]

Democrat·MT
Bioguide ID: B000243
First Name: MAX
Middle Name: SIEBEN
Last Name: BAUCUS
By Request: N
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Cosponsors
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Committees
3
Actions
0
Amendments
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Related Bills
7
Subjects
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Summaries
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Titles
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Bill Details

Update Date
Mar 3, 2022
Origin Chamber
Senate
Bill Type
S
Bill Number
141
Congress
113
Introduced Date
Jan 24, 2013
Policy Area
Agriculture and Food
Is Law
No
Jan 24, 2013IntroReferral

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Source: Senate

Jan 24, 2013IntroReferralB00100

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S288)

Source: Library of Congress

Jan 24, 2013IntroReferral10000

Introduced in Senate

Source: Library of Congress

Introduced in Senate· Jan 24, 20130

Makes livestock indemnity payments (at 65% of an animal's market value) through FY2013 to eligible producers on farms that have incurred excess livestock death losses due to: (1) attacks by animals reintroduced into the wild by the federal government or protected by federal law, including wolves; or (2) adverse weather, including hurricanes, floods, blizzards, disease, wildfires, extreme heat, and extreme cold.

Establishes a livestock forage disaster program to provide one source for livestock forage disaster assistance for weather-related forage losses by combining: (1) the livestock forage assistance functions of the non insured crop disaster assistance program and the emergency assistance for livestock, honey bees, and farm-raised fish program; and (2) the livestock forage disaster program.

Provides assistance through FY2013 for forage losses: (1) due to drought on land that is native or improved pasture land with permanent vegetative cover or is planted to a crop planted specifically for the purpose of providing grazing for covered livestock; (2) on federally-managed rangeland due to a fire; and (3) due to weather-related conditions other than drought or fire on land that is native or improved pasture land with permanent vegetative cover, or is planted to a crop planted specifically for the purpose of providing grazing for covered livestock.

Provides funds through FY2013 for: (1) emergency assistance to eligible producers of livestock, honey bees, and farm-raised fish to aid in the reduction of losses due to disease, adverse weather, or other conditions, such as blizzards and wildfires; and (2) assistance to eligible orchardists and nursery tree growers that planted trees for commercial purposes but lost the trees as a result of a natural disaster, and to eligible orchardists and nursery tree growers that have a production history for commercial purposes on planted or existing trees but lost the trees as a result of a natural disaster (requires tree mortality to exceed 15%).

Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to provide coverages based on individual yields (other than for value-loss crops) under the non insured crop disaster assistance program equivalent to: (1) catastrophic risk protection, or (2) specified additional coverage.

Makes additional program coverage available at 50% to 65% of established yield and 100% of average market price. Reduces the premium for additional coverage by 50% for limited resource, beginning, and socially disadvantaged farmers.

Makes assistance available as soon as practicable to producers with 2012 losses of certain fruit crops in counties declared a disaster due to freeze or frost.

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee

Senate· Standing
Agricultural prices, subsidies, creditAquacultureDisaster relief and insuranceFiresForests, forestry, treesInsectsLivestock

Introduced in Senate

Jan 24, 2013

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