Emergency Food and Farm Disaster Assistance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3809
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2005-09-15 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Agricultural conservation
Agricultural credit
Agricultural subsidies
Agriculture and Food
Alabama
Animal diseases
Animals
Anthrax
Aquaculture
Beverages
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Congress
Crop insurance
Dairy industry
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Displaced persons
Droughts
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency housing
Environmental Protection
Families
Farm produce
Federal budgets
Finance and Financial Sector
Fishes
Floods
Florida
Food relief
Food stamps
Forest management
Forestry
Forests, forestry, trees
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health
Households
Housing and Community Development
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Infant formulas
Infants
Interest
Law
Legislation
Livestock
Losses
Louisiana
Lumber trade
Marketing of farm produce
Minorities
Mississippi
Native Americans
Nonprofit organizations
Nutrition
Off-budget expenditures
Pregnant women
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reforestation
Shelters for the homeless
Social Welfare
Soil erosion
Storage
Storms
Sugar
Tennessee
Trees
Vegetables
Water Resources Development
Water supply
Welfare eligibility
Wetlands
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: 
Emergency Food and Farm Disaster Assistance Act of 2005 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to set forth food stamp program provisions applicable to the Hurricane Katrina disaster recovery period and the immediate disaster recovery period (as defined by this Act).
 
Makes additional funds available to the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency food assistance for displaced Hurricane Katrina victims.
 
Directs the Secretary to make emergency crop disaster assistance for qualifying: (1) 2005 losses due to weather or related conditions; and (2) 2006 losses due to a hurricane occurring in 2005.
 
Directs the Secretary to carry out: (1) a livestock compensation program for 2005 livestock losses in emergency-designated areas; (2) a livestock indemnity program for 2005 livestock losses due to hurricanes, floods, and anthrax; (3) an assistance program for domestic catfish producers hurricane disaster-designated areas in 2005; and (4) sugarcane disaster assistance for qualifying producers and first handlers in areas of Louisiana designated as disaster areas due to Hurricane Katrina.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to use emergency watershed protection program and emergency conservation program funds for removal and disposal of dead livestock in disaster-designated in 2005 due to Hurricane Katrina. 
 
Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to certain private forest landowners in hurricane disaster-designated areas in 2005.
 
Directs the Secretary to make grants for Hurricane Katrina assistance to: (1) Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee; and (2) other states housing evacuees or suffering damage from Hurricane Katrina or a related condition. 
 
Directs the Secretary to extend marketing assistance loan settlement dates.
 
Provides temporary suspension of farm loan interest in hurricane disaster-designated areas in 2005. Extends the emergency loan application period in such areas.
 
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide additional loan write-down authority for farm losses in hurricane disaster-designated areas in 2004 or any subsequent year.
 
Directs the Secretary to temporarily suspend certain administrative offsets in hurricane disaster-designated areas in 2005.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress regarding the need for: (1) permanent agricultural disaster relief authority; and (2) additional assistance in response to Hurricane Katrina. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-26
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: Introduced in House