BAITS Act

Subjects: Agriculture and Food

Summary:  <p><b>Bringing Aquaculture Indemnities To Speed Act or the BAITS Act</b></p> <p>This bill expands the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) to eligible producers of farm-raised fish. (LIP provides indemnity payments to eligible livestock producers for loss or reduced sales price due to specified events.) </p> <p>Specifically, the bill adds farm-raised fish to the LIP definition of <i>livestock</i>, expanding LIP indemnity payments to farm-raised fish producers due to (1) an attack by an animal reintroduced into the wild by the federal government or protected by federal law (e.g., avian predators) or (2) disease.</p> <p> Under current law, LIP also provides indemnity payments to eligible livestock producers due to adverse weather. This bill prohibits LIP from making payments to producers of farm-raised fish due to adverse weather.</p>

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[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1020 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1020

 To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to include certain farm-raised 
  fish losses under the livestock indemnity payment program, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 14, 2023

Mr. Moore of Alabama introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                    to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to include certain farm-raised 
  fish losses under the livestock indemnity payment program, 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 ``Bringing Aquaculture Indemnities To 
Speed Act'' or the ``BAITS Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF CERTAIN FARM-RAISED FISH LOSSES UNDER LIVESTOCK 
              INDEMNITY PAYMENT PROGRAM.

    Section 1501 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9081) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(4)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (F), by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) by redesignating subparagraph (G) as 
                subparagraph (H); and
                    (C) by inserting after subparagraph (F) the 
                following:
                    ``(G) for purposes of subsection (b), farm-raised 
                fish; and''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Special rule for farm-raised fish.--The Secretary may 
        only make a payment under this subsection with respect to 
        livestock described in subsection (a)(4)(G) if the loss or 
        reduced sale of such livestock is due to a cause described in 
        subparagraph (A) or (C) of paragraph (1).''.
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