Containing Risk, Offering Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-1319
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2013-03-21
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural insurance

Disaster relief and insurance
Latest action: action_date: 2013-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-03-21
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p> Containing Risk, Offering Protection Act - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to provide insurance coverage for losses to an insured commodity destroyed or otherwise unable to be marketed or utilized for its intended purpose as a result of a federally-imposed quarantine.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1319 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 21, 2013 Mr. McNerney (for himself, Mr. Costa , Mrs. Negrete McLeod , and Mr. Vargas ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to expand coverage under plans of insurance available under such Act to include losses to an insured commodity when, as a result of a federally-imposed quarantine, the commodity must be destroyed, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Containing Risk, Offering Protection Act . 2. Coverage of quarantine losses to insured commodities under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (a) Expansion To include quarantine losses Section 508(a)(1) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act ( 7 U.S.C. 1508(a)(1) ) is amended in the second sentence— (1) by striking be due to drought and inserting be due— (A) to drought ; (2) by striking Secretary). and inserting Secretary); or ; and (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (B) to a quarantine imposed under Federal law, pursuant to the terms of which the commodity is destroyed or otherwise unable to be marketed or otherwise utilized for its intended purpose (as determined by the Secretary). . (b) Application of amendment Subparagraph (B) of section 508(a)(1) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act ( 7 U.S.C. 1508(a)(1) ), as added by subsection (a)(3), shall apply beginning with the 2015 reinsurance year.