103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4217
AN ACT
To reform the Federal crop insurance program, 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, TABLE OF CONTENTS, AND DEFI-
NITIONS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the
‘‘Federal Crop Insurance Reform Act of 1994’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of
this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title, table of contents, and definitions.
Sec. 2. Members of Board of Directors of Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.
Sec. 3. General powers of Corporation.
Sec. 4. Personnel.
Sec. 5. General authority to offer crop insurance.
Sec. 6. Catastrophic risk protection, buy-up levels, premiums, and yield deter-
minations.
Sec. 7. Preparation of policies, claims, and reinsurance.
Sec. 8. Authorization of appropriations and crop insurance fund.
Sec. 9. Advisory Committee.
Sec. 10. Noninsured crop disaster assistance.
Sec. 11. Crop insurance requirements under price support programs.
Sec. 12. Elimination of gender references.
Sec. 13. GAO crop insurance provider study.
Sec. 14. Effective date.
(c) DEFINITIONS.—Section 502 of the Federal Crop
Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1502) is amended—
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(1) by striking the section heading and ‘‘SEC.
502.’’ and inserting the following:
‘‘SEC. 502. PURPOSE AND DEFINITIONS.
‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this title:
‘‘(1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ means
the Secretary of Agriculture.
‘‘(2) CORPORATION.—The term ‘Corporation’
means the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation es-
tablished under section 503.
‘‘(3) BOARD.—The term ‘Board’ means the
Board of Directors of the Corporation established
under section 505(a).
‘‘(4) LOSS RATIO.—The term ‘loss ratio’ means
the ratio of all sums paid by the Corporation as in-
demnities under all crop insurance policies to that of
the premiums designated for anticipated losses and
a reasonable reserve, not including the portion of the
premiums designated for operating and administra-
tive expenses.
‘‘(5) TRANSITIONAL YIELD.—The term ‘transi-
tional yield’ means the maximum average production
per acre or equivalent measure that is assigned to
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acreage for a crop year by the Corporation in ac-
cordance with its regulations whenever the producer
fails—
‘‘(A) to certify that acceptable documenta-
tion of production and acreage for that crop
year is in the producer’s possession; or
‘‘(B) to present such acceptable docu-
mentation upon the demand of the Corporation
or an insurance company reinsured by the Cor-
poration.’’.
(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—The Federal Crop
Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) is amended—
(1) in section 503 (7 U.S.C. 1503), by striking
‘‘(herein called the Corporation)’’; and
(2) in section 505(a) (7 U.S.C. 1505(a)), by
striking ‘‘(hereinafter called the ‘Board’)’’.
SEC. 2. MEMBERS OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF FEDERAL
CROP INSURANCE CORPORATION.
Section 505(a) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7
U.S.C. 1505(a)) is amended in the second sentence—
(1) by striking ‘‘or Assistant Secretary’’ the
first place it appears; and
(2) by striking ‘‘the Under Secretary or Assist-
ant Secretary of Agriculture responsible for the farm
credit programs of the Department of Agriculture’’