Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1692
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2005-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Agricultural conservation
Agricultural credit
Agricultural subsidies
Alabama
Animal diseases
Animals
Anthrax
Cattle
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Crop insurance
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Displaced persons
Droughts
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Farm produce
Federal budgets
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fisheries
Floods
Florida
Food relief
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Grazing
Great Lakes
Habitat conservation
Health
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Inland water transportation
Interest
Landowners
Law
Livestock
Loans
Losses
Louisiana
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marketing of farm produce
Minorities
Mississippi
Native Americans
New England
North Dakota
Nutrition
Off-budget expenditures
Outdoor recreation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Red tide
Sheep
Small Business Administration
Small business
Soil conservation
Soil erosion
Sports and Recreation
Storms
Swine
Tennessee
Transportation and Public Works
Vegetables
Water Resources Development
Watersheds
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: 
Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency financial assistance to eligible agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2005 crop losses due to weather or related conditions (including crop disease, insects, and delayed harvest). 
 
 Directs the Secretary to provide: (1) payments to livestock producers who have incurred 2005 losses in an emergency-designated county, with set-asides for the American Indian livestock program; (2) livestock indemnity payments to producers who have incurred 2005 livestock disaster losses, including losses due to hurricanes, floods, and anthrax; (3) additional assistance for the emergency conservation and the emergency watershed protection programs; (4) compensation for certain owners of flooded crop and grazing land in North Dakota; and (5) supplemental loss payments under a specified rate to producers who received crop year 2005 commodity assistance.
 
Amends the Small Business Act to: (1) provide drought disaster relief authority for farm-related and non-farm-related small businesses; and (2) authorize FY2005-FY2008 drought disaster loans for non-farm-related small businesses.
 
Directs the Secretary to use Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funds for: (1) grants for agricultural promotion; (2) state-specified grants; and (3) additional grants for agricultural promotion, including food bank and nutrition program assistance, to Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and any other state that is housing evacuees or suffering damage from Hurricane Katrina or a related condition.
 
Directs the Secretary to extend the settlement date of certain marketing assistance loans.
 
Transfers Treasury funds to the Secretary of Commerce for assistance to New England fisheries suffering from the red tide outbreak.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate