A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency payments to dairy producers.

Bill: 115-s-3586
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2018-10-11
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Department of Agriculture

Food industry and services

Food supply, safety, and labeling
Latest action: action_date: 2018-10-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-10-11
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to issue emergency payments to dairy producers. USDA must develop criteria for the payments that give priority to producers who are: (1) located in a state with a high cost of dairy production compared to other states, and (2) on a farm with a high cost of dairy production based on the size of the farm. </p> <p>The emergency payments provided under this bill must be at least $10,000 but no greater than $20,000 per dairy operation. </p> <p>USDA must use $556 million in Commodity Credit Corporation funds to carry out this bill. The bill designates the spending as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010 and the FY2018 congressional budget resolution. (This exempts the spending from various budget enforcement rules.)</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3586 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES October 11, 2018 Mr. Sanders introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry A BILL To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency payments to dairy producers.

1. Emergency payments (a) In general Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture (referred to in this Act as the Secretary ) shall issue emergency payments to dairy producers according to criteria developed by the Secretary under subsection (b). (b) Criteria (1) In general The Secretary shall develop criteria for the issuance of emergency payments under subsection (a). (2) Priority In developing criteria under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall— (A) give priority to a dairy producer— (i) located in a State with a high cost of dairy production compared to other States; or (ii) on a farm with a high cost of dairy production based on the size of the farm, as determined by the Secretary; and (B) in carrying out subparagraph (A), use the most current estimates of the Economic Research Service for the cost of milk production by State and nationwide. (c) Payment limitation An emergency payment under subsection (a) shall be not less than $10,000 but not greater than $20,000 per dairy operation. (d) Funding Of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall use to carry out this section $556,000,000 for fiscal year 2019, to remain available until expended. 2. Emergency designation (a) Statutory PAYGO This Act is designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 ( 2 U.S.C. 933(g) ). (b) Senate designation In the Senate, this Act is designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4112(a) of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.