Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2006
Latest action · May 2, 2006 Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedApr 5, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency financial assistance to eligible agricultural producers (other than sugar cane and sugar beet producers) who have incurred qualifying: (1) 2005 crop losses due to weather or related conditions (including crop disease, insects, and delayed harvest); and (2) 2006 crop losses due to flooding in California and Hawaii that occurred prior to the date of enactment of this Act and for which a petition for a disaster designation has been filed with the Secretary.
Directs the Secretary to provide: (1) payments through the 2002 livestock compensation program for livestock disaster losses during calendar years 2005 and 2006 for losses that occurred prior to of enactment of this Act (including wildfire disaster losses in Texas and other states); (2) livestock indemnity payments to producers who have incurred 2005 and 2006 livestock disaster losses prior to enactment of this Act (including wildfire disaster losses in Texas and other states), including losses due to hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and anthrax; (3) indemnity payments to poultry producers in hurricane-affected counties, and for 2006 ewe lamb replacement and retention; (4) compensation for certain owners of flooded crop and grazing land in North Dakota; (5) sugarcane and sugar beet disaster assistance for qualifying producers and first processors in Louisiana counties designated as disaster areas due to Hurricanes Katrina or Rita, or to qualifying producers and first processors in Florida for 2005 losses due to hurricanes, floods, rain, or storms; (6) assistance to sugarcane growers in Texas (for additional Baton Rouge demurrage costs and raw sugar transportation and storage costs) and Hawaii (for an agricultural transportation cooperative); (7) assistance to specialty and nursery crop producers in hurricane-affected counties; (8) assistance to dairy producers in hurricane-affected counties; (9) assistance to producers and first handlers of cottonseed; (10) grants for agricultural promotion; (11) supplemental economic loss payments under a specified rate to producers who received crop year 2005 commodity assistance; (12) assistance to tree producers (including Christmas, potted, ornamental, and nursery trees, shrubs, and vines) in hurricane-affected counties; and (13) emergency watershed protection and emergency conservation program activities.
Authorizes the Secretary to provide: (1) financial and technical assistance to remove debris and animal carcasses that could adversely affect health and safety on non-federal land in hurricane-affected counties; and (2) immunizations to Department of Agriculture employees involved in direct recovery work in hurricane-affected counties.
Directs the Secretary to hire additional state and county Farm Service Agency personnel to assist in agricultural disaster and economic assistance programs.
Appropriates emergency drought assistance funds for: (1) the Army Corps of Engineers; and (2) the Bureau of Reclamation (Department of the Interior).
Defines "hurricane-affected county" as a county, or contiguous county, covered by a natural disaster designation related to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, or Wilma.
Cosponsors 62
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 5, 2006 to Sep 29, 2006; 25 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-FL | Allen Boyd | Original | Apr 5, 2006 |
| R-LA | Bobby Jindal | Original | Apr 5, 2006 |
| R-MS | Charles W. "Chip" Pickering | Original | Apr 5, 2006 |
| R-LA | Charles W. Boustany, Jr. | Original | Apr 5, 2006 |
| D-LA | Charlie Melancon | Original | Apr 5, 2006 |
| D-GA | David Scott | Original | Apr 5, 2006 |
| D-ND | Earl Pomeroy | Original | Apr 5, 2006 |
| D-TX | Henry Cuellar | Original | Apr 5, 2006 |
| D-MO | Ike Skelton | Original | Apr 5, 2006 |
| D-GA | Jim Marshall | Original | Apr 5, 2006 |
| R-MO | Jo Ann Emerson | Original | Apr 5, 2006 |
| R-AL | Jo Bonner | Original | Apr 5, 2006 |
| R-NV | Jon C. Porter | Original | Apr 5, 2006 |
| R-MO | Kenny C. Hulshof | Original | Apr 5, 2006 |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Original | Apr 5, 2006 |
Committees 5
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Apr 5, 2006 |
| House | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Referred Apr 5, 2006 |
| Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee | Referred Apr 6, 2006 | |
| House | Armed Services Committee | Referred Apr 5, 2006 |
| House | Budget Committee | Referred Apr 5, 2006 |
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Apr 5, 2006 |
| Forests and Forest Health Subcommittee | Referred Apr 19, 2006 | |
| Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee | Referred Apr 19, 2006 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 2, 2006Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
- Apr 19, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
- Apr 19, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
- Apr 19, 2006Executive Comment Requested from Interior, USDA.
- Apr 6, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Related bills 6
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HRES 998 | Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5099) to provide disaster assistance to agricultural producers for crop and livestock losses, and for other purposes. | Procedurally related | Sep 25, 2006 |
| S 2438 | Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2006 | Related bill | Mar 16, 2006 |
| S 3855 | Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006 | Related bill | Sep 29, 2006 |
| S 3860 | Emergency Wildfire and Farm Relief Act of 2006 | Related bill | Sep 6, 2006 |
| S 3991 | Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006 | Related bill | Sep 29, 2006 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide disaster assistance to agricultural producers for crop and livestock losses, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2006
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Administrative procedure
- Agricultural conservation
- Agricultural cooperatives
- Agricultural credit
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Alabama
- Animals
- Appropriations
- California
- Checks
- Civil engineering
- Cotton
- Crop insurance
- Dairy industry
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Defense
- Department of the Interior
- Disaster relief
- Drainage
- Droughts
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electronic benefits transfers
- Emergency Management
- Environmental Protection
- Federal budgets
- Federal employees
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fires
- Floods
- Florida
- Food relief
- Government Operations and Politics
- Grants-in-aid
- Grazing
- Habitat conservation
- Hawaii
- Health
- Hurricane aftermath legislation
- Hurricanes
- Indemnity
- Infrastructure
- Land use
- Law
- Livestock
- Louisiana
- Milk
- Mississippi
- North Dakota
- Off-budget expenditures
- Oilseeds
- Outdoor recreation
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Refuse and refuse disposal
- Sports and Recreation
- Storms
- Sugar
- Texas
- Trees
- Vaccines
- Water Resources Development
- Watersheds
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 5, 2006Introduced in House
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