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.

Bill: 115-s-2512
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2018-03-07
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural insurance

Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Latest action: action_date: 2018-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-03-07
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
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: II 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2512 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 7, 2018 Mr. Flake introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 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.). .