I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 257
To provide emergency disaster assistance to agricultural producers that in-
curred 2002 crop losses due to damaging weather or related condition 
and to provide emergency disaster assistance to livestock producers in 
counties that received a primary disaster designation by the Secretary 
of Agriculture in calendar year 2001 or 2002, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 8, 2003
Mr. BURNS (for himself, Mr. HAYES, Mr. MCINTYRE, Mr. PICKERING, Mr. 
KINGSTON, Mr. ROGERS of Alabama, Mr. GOODE, Mr. CRAMER, and Mr. 
BISHOP of Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To provide emergency disaster assistance to agricultural pro-
ducers that incurred 2002 crop losses due to damaging 
weather or related condition and to provide emergency 
disaster assistance to livestock producers in counties that 
received a primary disaster designation by the Secretary 
of Agriculture in calendar year 2001 or 2002, and for 
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Emergency Agricul-
tural Disaster Assistance Act of 2003’’. 
SEC. 2. CROP DISASTER ASSISTANCE. 
(a) ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE.—Notwithstanding sec-
tion 508(b)(7) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 
U.S.C. 1508(b)(7)), the Secretary of Agriculture shall use 
such sums as are necessary of funds of the Commodity 
Credit Corporation to make emergency financial assist-
ance available to producers on a farm that have incurred 
qualifying crop losses for the 2002 crop due to damaging 
weather or related condition, as determined by the Sec-
retary. 
(b) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary shall make as-
sistance available under this section in the same manner 
as provided under section 815 of the Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Re-
lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (as enacted into 
law by Public Law 106–387; 114 Stat. 1549A–55), includ-
ing using the same loss thresholds for the quantity and 
quality losses as were used in administering that section. 
SEC. 3. ASSISTANCE FOR LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS. 
(a) ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE.—The Secretary of Agri-
culture shall use such sums as are necessary of funds of 
the Commodity Credit Corporation to make and admin-
ister payments to livestock producers for losses in a county
that received a primary disaster designation by the Sec-
retary in calendar year 2001 or 2002. 
(b) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary shall make as-
sistance available under this section using the criteria es-
tablished to carry out the 2002 Livestock Compensation 
Program. 
(c) APPLICATION.—During the 30-day period begin-
ning on the date of the enactment of this Act, livestock 
producers in a county described in subsection (a) may sub-
mit an application for assistance under this section or 
renew an application previously submitted under the 2002 
Livestock Compensation Program. 
(d) CHOICE OF PAYMENTS.—
(1) MULTIYEAR DESIGNATION.—If a producer 
is on a farm located in a county that received an 
emergency designation described in subsection (a) in 
each of calendar years 2001 and 2002, the producer 
may receive payments under this section for losses 
associated with the declaration in either calendar 
year 2001 or calendar year 2002, but not both. 
(2) PRIOR PAYMENTS.—A producer may not re-
ceive a payment under this section and under the 
2002 Livestock Compensation Program. 
SEC. 4. INELIGIBILITY FOR PAYMENTS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
(1) ADDITIONAL COVERAGE.—The term ‘‘addi-
tional coverage’’ has the meaning given the term in 
section 502(b)(1) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act 
(7 U.S.C. 1502(b)(1)). 
(2) INSURABLE COMMODITY.—The term ‘‘insur-
able commodity’’ means an agricultural commodity 
(excluding livestock) for which the producers on a 
farm are eligible to obtain a policy or plan of insur-
ance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 
U.S.C. 1501 et seq.). 
(3) NONINSURABLE
COMMODITY.—The term 
‘‘noninsurable commodity’’ means an eligible crop 
for which the producers on a farm are eligible to ob-
tain assistance under section 196 of the Federal Ag-
riculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 
U.S.C. 7333). 
(b) INELIGIBILITY.—Except as provided in sub-
section (c), the producers on a farm shall not be eligible 
for a payment under section 2 with respect to 2002 losses 
to an insurable commodity or noninsurable commodity if 
the producers on the farm—
(1) in the case of an insurable commodity, did 
not obtain a policy or plan of insurance for the in-
surable commodity for the crop under the Federal 
Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.); and