To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to provide emergency relief to producers that experienced losses as a result of disasters occurring in 2023, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · April 30, 2024
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
This bill directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an emergency relief program providing financial payments to farmers and producers who suffered crop, livestock, or tree losses during disasters that occurred in 2023. Eligible losses include damage from droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, floods, excessive heat, winter storms, smoke exposure, and similar weather events, as well as losses of milk, stored commodities, and wine grapes. The program would operate under the same rules and procedures used for the Emergency Relief Program in 2020 and 2021, and would cover losses that producers did not have insurance for or did not receive full compensation for through existing crop insurance or disaster assistance programs. The bill authorizes whatever funding is necessary to carry out the program, though no specific dollar amount is specified. The legislation would help agricultural producers recover from the various disasters that affected farming operations throughout 2023.
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