RESTORE Act

Bill: 117-hr-1692
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Jackson, Ronny [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2021-03-09
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Agricultural insurance

Appropriations

Atmospheric science and weather

Department of Agriculture

Disaster relief and insurance

Fires

Natural disasters
Latest action: action_date: 2021-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-03-09
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Rehabilitating Economic Success Through Overcoming Rural Emergencies Act or the</strong> <strong>RESTORE Act</strong></p> <p>This bill expands the Department of Agriculture's Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus (WHIP+) to include coverage for losses of crops due to high winds or derechos, polar vortexes (including losses to dairy cooperatives due to power outages or curtailments), hailstorms, freeze, and droughts occurring in the 2020 and 2021 calendar years, with specified limitations. Under current law, the program provides disaster payments to agricultural producers who suffered crop, tree, bush, and vine losses resulting from hurricanes, wildfires, and other qualifying natural disasters that occurred in the 2018 and 2019 calendar years.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1692 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 9, 2021 Mr. Jackson (for himself, Mr. Cuellar , Mr. Brady , Mr. Arrington , Mr. Burgess , Mr. Sessions , Mr. Gohmert , Mr. Weber of Texas , Ms. Van Duyne , Mr. Pfluger , Mr. Tony Gonzales of Texas , Mr. Babin , and Mr. Fallon ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To extend and expand the Wildfire Hurricane Indemnity Program to cover losses due to high winds, polar vortexes, and hailstorms.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Rehabilitating Economic Success Through Overcoming Rural Emergencies Act or the RESTORE Act . 2. USDA Wildfire Hurricane Indemnity Program extension and expansion The Secretary of Agriculture shall make payments for necessary expenses related to losses of crops (including losses due to high winds or derechos, polar vortexes (including losses to dairy cooperatives due to power outages or curtailments), hailstorms, freeze, and all losses eligible for assistance under subpart O of part 760 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, including any drought losses in 2020 and 2021, notwithstanding the limitations of section 791(b) of title VII of division B of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020) pursuant to title I of the Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act, 2019 ( Public Law 116–20 ), as amended by section 116 of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020 ( Public Law 116–59 ) and as further amended by subsection (c) of section 791 of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 ( Public Law 116–94 ) for crop losses in calendar year 2020 and calendar year 2021, except that payments for losses incurred in 2020 and 2021 shall be— (1) in the case of producers, subject only to the limitations provided under section 760.1507 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations; and (2) in the case of dairy cooperatives, shall be paid in the same manner and subject to the same limitations as cooperative processors under section 791(c) of title VII of division B of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 ( Public Law 116–94 ).