Title: Crop Insurance Fairness Act of 2018
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Crop Insurance Fairness Act of 2018
This bill prohibits the Department of Agriculture (USDA) from modifying the method of determining assigned yields for the noninsured crop disaster assistance program unless: (1) USDA provides public notice of the modified method and the method does not apply earlier than the first crop year that is one year after the notice is provided; or (2) the modified method will increase the payment amount of the producer.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7088 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7088

To amend the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to 
 require that the Secretary of Agriculture to require a notice period 
  with respect to certain modifications of assigned yields under the 
              noninsured crop disaster assistance program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 23, 2018

 Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico (for herself and Mr. Ben Ray 
Lujan of New Mexico) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                    to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to 
 require that the Secretary of Agriculture to require a notice period 
  with respect to certain modifications of assigned yields under the 
              noninsured crop disaster assistance program.

    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 ``Crop Insurance Fairness Act of 
2018''.

SEC. 2. ASSIGNED YIELD NOTIFICATIONS.

    Section 196(e) of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform 
Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7333(e)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3), by striking ``If'' and inserting 
        ``Subject to paragraph (7), if''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) Modification of method of determining assigned 
        yield.--If the Secretary modifies the method of determining 
        assigned yield under paragraph (3), such method may not apply 
        to the determination of assigned yield with respect to a 
        producer under such paragraph unless--
                    ``(A) the Secretary--
                            ``(i) provides public notice of such 
                        modified method; and
                            ``(ii) such modified method applies to a 
                        crop year not earlier than the first crop year 
                        that is at least 1 crop year after the notice 
                        described in clause (i) is made; or
                    ``(B) such modified method will increase the 
                payment amount such producer receives under this 
                section.''.
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