I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 307
To provide emergency disaster assistance to agricultural producers to respond 
to severe crop losses and livestock losses incurred in 2001 and 2002, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 8, 2003
Mr. MORAN of Kansas (for himself, Mr. OSBORNE, Mr. LUCAS of Oklahoma, 
Mr. JOHNSON of Illinois, Mr. MCINTYRE, Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota, 
Mr. POMEROY, Mr. BOSWELL, Mr. BEREUTER, Mr. LAHOOD, Mr. 
SHIMKUS, Mr. GOODE, Mr. RYUN
of Kansas, Mr. STUPAK, Mr. 
LATOURETTE, Mr. MOORE, Mr. WELLER, Mr. UDALL of New Mexico, 
Mrs. MUSGRAVE, Mrs. CUBIN, Mr. WALDEN of Oregon, Mr. REHBERG, 
and Mr. PETERSON of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To provide emergency disaster assistance to agricultural pro-
ducers to respond to severe crop losses and livestock 
losses incurred in 2001 and 2002, and for other pur-
poses.
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 ‘‘Farm Disaster Emer-
gency Assistance Act of 2003’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) Due in large part to weather-related disas-
ters in 2001 and 2002, increases in commodity 
prices will result in cost savings under title I of the 
Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 
U.S.C. 
7901 
et 
seq.) 
of 
approximately 
$5,600,000,000 in fiscal year 2003. 
(2) The amount of funds made available by this 
Act to compensate producers adversely impacted by 
weather-related disasters that occurred in 2001 and 
2002, together with actual expenditures under title 
I of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 
2002, will still be less than the amount allocated for 
agriculture in the budget baseline for fiscal year 
2002. 
SEC. 3. CROP DISASTER ASSISTANCE. 
(a) ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE.—The Secretary of Agri-
culture (in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) 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 losses for the 2001 or 2002 crop of an agricul-
tural commodity due to damaging weather or related con-
dition, as determined by the Secretary.
(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 quantity and quality 
losses as were used in administering that section. 
(c) ELECTION OF CROP YEAR.—If a producer in-
curred qualifying crop losses in both the 2001 and 2002 
crop years, the producer shall elect to receive assistance 
under this section for losses incurred in either the 2001 
crop year or the 2002 crop year, but not both. 
(d) PAYMENT LIMITATION.—
(1) LIMITATION.—Assistance provided under 
this section to a producer for losses to a crop, to-
gether with the amounts specified in paragraph (2) 
applicable to the same crop, may not exceed what 
the value of the crop would have been in the absence 
of the losses, as estimated by the Secretary. 
(2) OTHER PAYMENTS.—In applying the limita-
tion in paragraph (1), the Secretary shall include the 
following: 
(A) Any crop insurance payment or pay-
ment under section 196 of the Federal Agricul-
tural Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 
U.S.C. 7333) that the producer receives for 
losses to the same crop. 
(B) The value of the crop that was not lost 
(if any), as estimated by the Secretary. 
SEC. 4. ASSISTANCE FOR LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS. 
(a) ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE.—The Secretary shall 
use such sums as are necessary of funds of the Commodity 
Credit Corporation to make emergency financial assist-
ance, as authorized in section 10104 of the Farm Security 
and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–171; 
7 U.S.C. 1472), available to livestock producers that have 
incurred losses in a county that received an emergency 
designation by the President or the Secretary in calendar 
year 2001 or 2002. The Secretary may reserve a portion 
of the funds available to carry out this section for the 
American Indian Livestock Feed Program. 
(b) ELECTION OF DISASTER YEARS.—If a producer 
incurred livestock losses in a county that received an emer-
gency designation by the President or Secretary in both 
calendar year 2001 and 2002, the producer shall elect to 
receive assistance under this section for losses incurred in 
either 2001 or 2002, but not both. 
(c) RELATION TO OTHER PAYMENTS.—Assistance 
provided under this section to a producer for livestock
losses shall be reduced (but not below zero) by any amount 
received by the producer for the same losses under the 
livestock loss compensation program announced by the 
Secretary on September 19, 2002. 
(d) ADJUSTED GROSS INCOME LIMITATION.—The 
Secretary shall apply the adjusted gross income limitation 
under section 1001D of the Food Security Act of 1985 
(7 U.S.C. 1308–3a) to the provision of assistance under 
this section in lieu of any other income limitation that the 
Secretary would otherwise apply to the provision of such 
assistance. 
SEC. 5. INELIGIBILITY FOR PAYMENTS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) 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.). 
(2) 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).