Title: RESTORE Act
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Rehabilitating Economic Success Through Overcoming Rural Emergencies Act or the RESTORE Act
This bill expands the Department of Agriculture's Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus (WHIP+) to include coverage for losses of crops due to high winds or derechos, polar vortexes (including losses to dairy cooperatives due to power outages or curtailments), hailstorms, freeze, and droughts occurring in the 2020 and 2021 calendar years, with specified limitations. Under current law, the program provides disaster payments to agricultural producers who suffered crop, tree, bush, and vine losses resulting from hurricanes, wildfires, and other qualifying natural disasters that occurred in the 2018 and 2019 calendar years.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1692 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1692

To extend and expand the Wildfire Hurricane Indemnity Program to cover 
       losses due to high winds, polar vortexes, and hailstorms.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 9, 2021

 Mr. Jackson (for himself, Mr. Cuellar, Mr. Brady, Mr. Arrington, Mr. 
Burgess, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Weber of Texas, Ms. Van Duyne, 
  Mr. Pfluger, Mr. Tony Gonzales of Texas, Mr. Babin, and Mr. Fallon) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                              Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To extend and expand the Wildfire Hurricane Indemnity Program to cover 
       losses due to high winds, polar vortexes, and hailstorms.

    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 ``Rehabilitating Economic Success 
Through Overcoming Rural Emergencies Act'' or the ``RESTORE Act''.

SEC. 2. USDA WILDFIRE HURRICANE INDEMNITY PROGRAM EXTENSION AND 
              EXPANSION.

    The Secretary of Agriculture shall make payments for necessary 
expenses related to losses of crops (including losses due to high winds 
or derechos, polar vortexes (including losses to dairy cooperatives due 
to power outages or curtailments), hailstorms, freeze, and all losses 
eligible for assistance under subpart O of part 760 of title 7, Code of 
Federal Regulations, including any drought losses in 2020 and 2021, 
notwithstanding the limitations of section 791(b) of title VII of 
division B of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020) 
pursuant to title I of the Additional Supplemental Appropriations for 
Disaster Relief Act, 2019 (Public Law 116-20), as amended by section 
116 of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-59) and 
as further amended by subsection (c) of section 791 of the Further 
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-94) for crop 
losses in calendar year 2020 and calendar year 2021, except that 
payments for losses incurred in 2020 and 2021 shall be--
            (1) in the case of producers, subject only to the 
        limitations provided under section 760.1507 of title 7, Code of 
        Federal Regulations; and
            (2) in the case of dairy cooperatives, shall be paid in the 
        same manner and subject to the same limitations as cooperative 
        processors under section 791(c) of title VII of division B of 
        the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 
        116-94).
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