Title: Native American Livestock Assistance Act of 2018
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
Native American Livestock Assistance Act of 2018
This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to authorize disaster assistance payments to members of Indian tribes under the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) and the Livestock Forage Program (LFP), including for a horse that is owned by a member of an Indian tribe and is not used for commercial agricultural purposes.
(The LFP makes payments to eligible livestock producers who have suffered certain grazing losses due to a drought or on rangeland managed by a federal agency due to a fire. The LIP provides payments to eligible livestock producers on farms that incurred livestock deaths in excess of the normal mortality due to adverse weather or attacks by animals reintroduced into the wild by the federal government or protected by federal law.)
The bill also amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to offer a one-time increase in the premium subsidy for members of an Indian Tribe who purchase policies for the Risk Management Agency Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage (PRF) crop insurance program for the first time.
(The PRF crop insurance program is intended to help protect a producer's operation from the risks of forage loss due to the lack of precipitation.)

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2316 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2316

   To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to make available to Native 
  Americans who own horses for noncommercial use livestock indemnity 
payments and payments under the livestock forage disaster program, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 17, 2018

   Mr. Thune introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to make available to Native 
  Americans who own horses for noncommercial use livestock indemnity 
payments and payments under the livestock forage disaster 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 ``Native American Livestock Assistance 
Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL AGRICULTURAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE.

    Section 1501(a) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9081(a)) 
is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(A)--
                    (A) by striking ``means an individual'' and 
                inserting the following: ``means--
                            ``(i) an individual'';
                    (B) in clause (i) (as so designated), by striking 
                the period at the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(ii) in the case of a payment under 
                        subsection (b) or (c), a member of an Indian 
                        tribe (as defined in section 4 of the Indian 
                        Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act 
                        (25 U.S.C. 5304)), as certified to the 
                        Secretary by the Chairperson of that Indian 
                        tribe (or a designee).''; and
            (2) in paragraph (3)(F), by inserting ``(including, in the 
        case of a payment under subsection (b) or (c), horses owned by 
        an eligible producer on a farm described in paragraph 
        (1)(A)(ii) that are not used for commercial agricultural 
        purposes)'' before ``; and''.

SEC. 3. PASTURE, RANGELAND, AND FORAGE POLICY OF INSURANCE.

    Section 523(i)(4)(B) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 
1523(i)(4)(B)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The premium subsidy'' and inserting the 
        following:
                            ``(i) In general.--Subject to clause (ii), 
                        the premium subsidy''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(ii) Pasture, rangeland, and forage 
                        policy for members of indian tribes.--With 
                        respect to a policy or plan of insurance 
                        established under this subsection for producers 
                        of livestock commodities the source of 
                        feedstock of which is pasture, rangeland, and 
                        forage, the premium subsidy for a member of an 
                        Indian tribe (as defined in section 4 of the 
                        Indian Self-Determination and Education 
                        Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304)), as certified 
                        to the Secretary by the Chairperson of that 
                        Indian tribe (or a designee), shall be--
                                    ``(I) 90 percent for the first 
                                purchase of that policy or plan of 
                                insurance by that member of an Indian 
                                tribe; and
                                    ``(II) determined under clause (i) 
                                for any subsequent purchase of that 
                                policy or plan of insurance by that 
                                member of an Indian tribe.''.
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