Native American Livestock Assistance Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-2316
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2018-01-17
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Agricultural insurance

Disaster relief and insurance

Farmland

Livestock
Latest action: action_date: 2018-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-01-17
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Native American Livestock Assistance Act of 2018 </b></p> <p>This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to authorize disaster assistance payments to members of Indian tribes under the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) and the Livestock Forage Program (LFP), including for a horse that is owned by a member of an Indian tribe and is not used for commercial agricultural purposes.</p> <p>(The LFP makes payments to eligible livestock producers who have suffered certain grazing losses due to a drought or on rangeland managed by a federal agency due to a fire. The LIP provides payments to eligible livestock producers on farms that incurred livestock deaths in excess of the normal mortality due to adverse weather or attacks by animals reintroduced into the wild by the federal government or protected by federal law.) </p> <p>The bill also amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to offer a one-time increase in the premium subsidy for members of an Indian Tribe who purchase policies for the Risk Management Agency Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage (PRF) crop insurance program for the first time. </p> <p>(The PRF crop insurance program is intended to help protect a producer's operation from the risks of forage loss due to the lack of precipitation.) </p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2316 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 17, 2018 Mr. Thune 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 make available to Native Americans who own horses for noncommercial use livestock indemnity payments and payments under the livestock forage disaster program, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Native American Livestock Assistance Act of 2018 . 2. Supplemental agricultural disaster assistance Section 1501(a) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 ( 7 U.S.C. 9081(a) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1)(A)— (A) by striking means an individual and inserting the following: “means— (i) an individual ; (B) in clause (i) (as so designated), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (C) by adding at the end the following: (ii) in the case of a payment under subsection (b) or (c), a member of an Indian tribe (as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act ( 25 U.S.C. 5304 )), as certified to the Secretary by the Chairperson of that Indian tribe (or a designee). ; and (2) in paragraph (3)(F), by inserting (including, in the case of a payment under subsection (b) or (c), horses owned by an eligible producer on a farm described in paragraph (1)(A)(ii) that are not used for commercial agricultural purposes) before ; and . 3. Pasture, rangeland, and forage policy of insurance Section 523(i)(4)(B) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act ( 7 U.S.C. 1523(i)(4)(B) ) is amended— (1) by striking The premium subsidy and inserting the following: (i) In general Subject to clause (ii), the premium subsidy ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (ii) Pasture, rangeland, and forage policy for members of Indian tribes With respect to a policy or plan of insurance established under this subsection for producers of livestock commodities the source of feedstock of which is pasture, rangeland, and forage, the premium subsidy for a member of an Indian tribe (as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act ( 25 U.S.C. 5304 )), as certified to the Secretary by the Chairperson of that Indian tribe (or a designee), shall be— (I) 90 percent for the first purchase of that policy or plan of insurance by that member of an Indian tribe; and (II) determined under clause (i) for any subsequent purchase of that policy or plan of insurance by that member of an Indian tribe. .