Emergency Farm Assistance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-925
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural labor
Agricultural subsidies
Animals
California
Citrus fruits
Commerce
Crop insurance
Dairy industry
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency housing
Federal budgets
Finance and Financial Sector
Fisheries
Floods
Food relief
Forestry
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Horticulture
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Labor and Employment
Law
Livestock
Losses
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Migrant labor
Minorities
Mortgages
Native Americans
Nuts
Off-budget expenditures
Pacific States (U.S.)
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Rental housing
Salmon
Seasonal labor
Small business
Trees
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance
Vegetables
Weather

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
Emergency Farm Assistance Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to provide assistance: (1) to producers of specialty crops in disaster counties that suffered losses in 2005 or 2006; (2) to citrus producers in disaster counties that suffered losses in 2007; (3) to producers of other specialty crops in disaster counties that suffered losses in 2007; (4) to dairy producers in disaster counties that suffered losses in 2006; and (5) for livestock indemnity payments to producers in disaster counties that incurred losses in 2006 or 2007, or both.
 
Directs the Secretary to make grants to California for an expedited disaster assistance program to qualified small businesses that suffered losses during the 2005, 2006, or 2007 crop year as a result of weather-related agricultural losses to the California specialty crop or livestock production sectors.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to tree or fruit and tree nut producers in disaster counties that suffered losses in 2005, 2006, or 2007, or any combination of such years. Defines &quot;tree&quot; to include: (1) a tree (including a Christmas tree, ornamental tree, nursery tree, and potted tree); (2) a bush (including a shrub, nursery shrub, nursery bush, ornamental bush, ornamental shrub, potted bush, and potted shrub); and (3) a vine (including a nursery vine and ornamental vine).
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide unemployment assistance and temporary mortgage rental assistance to California agricultural workers (including low-income migrant and seasonal farmworkers) who are unemployed due to disasters in 2007. 
 
Directs the Secretary to provide: (1) food coupons and surplus commodities to such workers; and (2) emergency grants for California low-income migrant and seasonal farmworkers who are unemployed due to disasters in 2007. 
 
Appropriates additional funds to the Secretary of Commerce for emergency disaster assistance to fishing communities, Indian tribes, and small businesses adversely affected by harvesting restrictions on Klamath River Fall chinook salmon.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2007-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Natural Resources, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Natural Resources, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Natural Resources, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Natural Resources, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Natural Resources, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House