To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to provide to producers partial payments under the livestock indemnity program for livestock sold for salvage.

Bill: 115-hr-4211
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Marshall, Roger [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2017-11-01
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Disaster relief and insurance

Livestock
Latest action: action_date: 2017-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-11-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require the Department of Agriculture to make payments under the Livestock Indemnity Program for livestock that is sold for a reduced sale price in excess of the normal mortality. Any payments made pursuant to this bill must be reduced by the amount that the producer received from the sale. </p> <p>(Under current law, the Livestock Indemnity Program provides payments to eligible producers on farms that have incurred livestock deaths in excess of normal mortality due to adverse weather, or attacks by animals reintroduced into the wild by the federal government or protected by federal law.) </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4211 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 1, 2017 Mr. Marshall introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to provide to producers partial payments under the livestock indemnity program for livestock sold for salvage.

1. Livestock indemnity payments for livestock sold for salvage Section 1501(b) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 ( 7 U.S.C. 9081(b) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting sold livestock for a reduced sale price in excess of the normal mortality, or both, after mortality, ; (2) in paragraph (2), by striking on the day before the date of death of the livestock, as determined by the Secretary. and inserting the following: , as determined by the Secretary on, as applicable— (A) the day before the date of death of the livestock; or (B) the day before the date of sale of the livestock. ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (4) Payment reductions A payment made under paragraph (1) to an eligible producer on a farm that sold livestock for a reduced sale price in excess of the normal mortality shall be reduced by the amount that the producer received for the sale. .