Emergency Food and Farm Disaster Assistance Act of 2005
Latest action · Sep 26, 2005 Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Progress
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- IntroducedSep 15, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Emergency Food and Farm Disaster Assistance Act of 2005 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to set forth food stamp program provisions applicable to the Hurricane Katrina disaster recovery period and the immediate disaster recovery period (as defined by this Act).
Makes additional funds available to the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency food assistance for displaced Hurricane Katrina victims.
Directs the Secretary to make emergency crop disaster assistance for qualifying: (1) 2005 losses due to weather or related conditions; and (2) 2006 losses due to a hurricane occurring in 2005.
Directs the Secretary to carry out: (1) a livestock compensation program for 2005 livestock losses in emergency-designated areas; (2) a livestock indemnity program for 2005 livestock losses due to hurricanes, floods, and anthrax; (3) an assistance program for domestic catfish producers hurricane disaster-designated areas in 2005; and (4) sugarcane disaster assistance for qualifying producers and first handlers in areas of Louisiana designated as disaster areas due to Hurricane Katrina.
Authorizes the Secretary to use emergency watershed protection program and emergency conservation program funds for removal and disposal of dead livestock in disaster-designated in 2005 due to Hurricane Katrina.
Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to certain private forest landowners in hurricane disaster-designated areas in 2005.
Directs the Secretary to make grants for Hurricane Katrina assistance to: (1) Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee; and (2) other states housing evacuees or suffering damage from Hurricane Katrina or a related condition.
Directs the Secretary to extend marketing assistance loan settlement dates.
Provides temporary suspension of farm loan interest in hurricane disaster-designated areas in 2005. Extends the emergency loan application period in such areas.
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide additional loan write-down authority for farm losses in hurricane disaster-designated areas in 2004 or any subsequent year.
Directs the Secretary to temporarily suspend certain administrative offsets in hurricane disaster-designated areas in 2005.
Expresses the sense of Congress regarding the need for: (1) permanent agricultural disaster relief authority; and (2) additional assistance in response to Hurricane Katrina.
Cosponsors 39
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 15, 2005 to Apr 5, 2006, with 34 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-KY | Ben Chandler | Original | Sep 15, 2005 |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Original | Sep 15, 2005 |
| D-NC | Bob Etheridge | Original | Sep 15, 2005 |
| D-CA | Bob Filner | Original | Sep 15, 2005 |
| D-LA | Charlie Melancon | Original | Sep 15, 2005 |
| D-FL | Corrine Brown | Original | Sep 15, 2005 |
| D-GA | David Scott | Original | Sep 15, 2005 |
| D-CA | Dennis A. Cardoza | Original | Sep 15, 2005 |
| D-ND | Earl Pomeroy | Original | Sep 15, 2005 |
| D-HI | Ed Case | Original | Sep 15, 2005 |
| D-NC | G. K. Butterfield | Original | Sep 15, 2005 |
| D-MS | Gene Taylor | Original | Sep 15, 2005 |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Original | Sep 15, 2005 |
| D-TX | Henry Cuellar | Original | Sep 15, 2005 |
| D-MN | James L. Oberstar | Original | Sep 15, 2005 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 26, 2005Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
- Sep 15, 2005Introduced in House
- Sep 15, 2005Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Emergency Management.
- Administrative fees
- Administrative procedure
- Agricultural conservation
- Agricultural credit
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Alabama
- Animal diseases
- Animals
- Anthrax
- Aquaculture
- Beverages
- Collection of accounts
- Commerce
- Competitive bidding
- Congress
- Crop insurance
- Dairy industry
- Department of Agriculture
- Disaster relief
- Displaced persons
- Droughts
- Economics and Public Finance
- Emergency housing
- Emergency Management
- Environmental Protection
- Families
- Farm produce
- Federal budgets
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fishes
- Floods
- Florida
- Food relief
- Food stamps
- Forest management
- Forestry
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Fruit
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Grants-in-aid
- Health
- Households
- Housing and Community Development
- Hurricane aftermath legislation
- Hurricanes
- Infant formulas
- Infants
- Interest
- Law
- Legislation
- Livestock
- Losses
- Louisiana
- Lumber trade
- Marketing of farm produce
- Minorities
- Mississippi
- Native Americans
- Nonprofit organizations
- Nutrition
- Off-budget expenditures
- Pregnant women
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Reforestation
- Shelters for the homeless
- Social Welfare
- Soil erosion
- Storage
- Storms
- Sugar
- Tennessee
- Trees
- Vegetables
- Water Resources Development
- Water supply
- Welfare eligibility
- Wetlands
- Women
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 15, 2005Introduced in House
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