To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require producers to elect to receive price loss coverage or agriculture risk coverage under that Act or Federal crop insurance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act.

Bill: 115-hr-5203
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2018-03-07
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural insurance

Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Latest action: action_date: 2018-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-03-07
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require all of the producers on a farm to elect to receive for the 2018 crop year either: (1) price loss coverage or agriculture risk coverage, as determined by the election of the producers on the farm required under current law for the 2014-2018 crop years; or (2) federal crop insurance. </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5203 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 7, 2018 Mr. Duncan of Tennessee introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require producers to elect to receive price loss coverage or agriculture risk coverage under that Act or Federal crop insurance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act.

1. Producer election to receive price loss coverage or agriculture risk coverage or Federal crop insurance Section 1115 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 ( 7 U.S.C. 9015 ) is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection (g); and (2) by inserting after subsection (e) the following: (f) Election To receive price loss coverage or agriculture risk coverage or Federal crop insurance For the 2018 crop year, all of the producers on a farm shall elect to receive— (1) price loss coverage or agriculture risk coverage, as determined by the election of the producers on the farm under this section for the 2014 through 2018 crop years; or (2) Federal crop insurance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act ( 7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.). .