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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2792
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to make supplemental income pay-
ments to producers of certain crops for crop years in which the national
gross revenue of the crop is below a certain percentage of the 5-year
average of that crop’s national gross revenue.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AUGUST 5, 1999
Mr. STENHOLM introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to make supple-
mental income payments to producers of certain crops
for crop years in which the national gross revenue of
the crop is below a certain percentage of the 5-year
average of that crop’s national gross revenue.
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 ‘‘Supplemental Income
Payments for Farmers Act’’.
SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL INCOME PAYMENTS FOR PRO-
DUCERS OF CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL COM-
MODITIES WITH REDUCED NATIONAL GROSS
REVENUES.
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
(1) ELIGIBLE COMMODITY.—The term ‘‘eligible
commodity’’ means wheat, oilseeds, feed grains, cot-
ton, and rice.
(2) NATIONAL
GROSS
REVENUE.—The term
‘‘national gross revenue’’, with respect to an eligible
commodity for a crop year, means the product ob-
tained 
by 
the 
Secretary 
of 
Agriculture 
by
multiplying—
(A) the total United States production of
the eligible commodity for that crop year; and
(B) the higher of the season average price
received by producers or the loan rate in effect
for the eligible commodity for that crop year
under subtitle C of title I of the Federal Agri-
culture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996
(7 U.S.C. 7231 et seq.).
(b) AVAILABILITY OF PAYMENTS.—The Secretary of
Agriculture shall make payments under this section to pro-
ducers of an eligible commodity for each crop year for
which the Secretary determines that the national gross
revenue per acre of the eligible commodity is less than 95
percent of the 5-year average of the national gross revenue
per acre of that commodity.
(c) TOTAL PAYMENTS
FOR COMMODITY.—If pay-
ments are required under subsection (b) to be made to
producers of an eligible commodity for a crop year, the
total amount of the payments to be made to all producers
of that commodity shall be equal to the product obtained
by multiplying—
(1) the amount per acre by which the national
gross revenue for that crop year, as determined
under subsection (b), is less than 95 percent of the
5-year average of the national gross revenue; and
(2) the total number of acres for that crop year
on which the commodity was harvested.
(d) PAYMENT RATE
AND PAYMENTS
TO
A PRO-
DUCER.—
(1) PAYMENT RATE.—The Secretary of Agri-
culture shall convert the total amount payable for an
eligible commodity for a crop year, as determined
under subsection (c), to a per bushel or other per
unit amount by dividing the amount determined
under subsection (c) by the total actual and failed
production for the commodity for that year.
(2) PRODUCER PAYMENT.—A producer of an el-
igible commodity for which payments are to be made
under this section shall receive a payment for the
producer’s actual or failed production at the pay-
ment rate in effect for the commodity for that crop
year, with a reasonable allowance for errors. The
Secretary shall determine actual and failed produc-
tion amounts and the Secretary’s determinations of
such amounts shall not be subject to review.
(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply to
eligible commodities beginning with the 1999 crop year.
(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Agri-
culture for fiscal years 2000 through 2004 such sums as
may be necessary to carry out this section.
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