US Congress Senate Bill 2810 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on November 20 2009 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2009-11-20 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) make a supplemental direct commodity payment to eligible producers that previously received such a payment; (2) make grants to states to assist eligible specialty crop producers for losses associated with drought or excessive rainfall during 2009; (3) provide supplemental assistance to eligible producers and first-handlers of the 2009 crop of cottonseed in disaster counties; (4) continue to carry out the 2002 livestock compensation program and provide assistance to any applicant that conducts a livestock operation located in a disaster county or produces fish classified within the family Ictaluridae (catfish); and (5) make payments to eligible producers for livestock losses occurring in a disaster county.

A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency disaster assistance to certain agricultural producers that suffered losses during the 2009 calendar year.

Sen. Thad Cochran [R-MS]

Sen. Blanche Lincoln [D-AR]

Sen. Mark Pryor [D-AR]

Sen. Roger Wicker [R-MS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-11-20		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

HB4177 (Related) 2010-03-29 - Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/2810/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/s2810/BILLS-111s2810is.pdf