Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2006
Latest action · Mar 16, 2006 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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.
- IntroducedMar 16, 2006
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot 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 2005 crop losses due to weather or related conditions (including crop disease, insects, and delayed harvest).
Directs the Secretary to provide: (1) payments through the 2002 livestock compensation program to livestock producers who have incurred 2005 losses in emergency-designated counties; (2) livestock indemnity payments to producers who have incurred 2005 livestock disaster losses, including losses due to hurricanes, floods, and anthrax; (3) indemnity payments to poultry producers in hurricane-affected counties; (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 specialty and nursery crop producers in hurricane-affected counties; (7) assistance to dairy producers in hurricane-affected counties; (8) assistance to producers and first handlers of cottonseed; (9) grants for agricultural promotion; (10) supplemental economic loss payments under a specified rate to producers who received crop year 2005 commodity assistance; and (11) assistance to tree producers (including Christmas, potted, ornamental, and nursery trees, shrubs, and vines) in hurricane-affected counties.
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.
Cosponsors 27
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 16, 2006 to Apr 3, 2006, with 24 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IL | Barack Obama | Original | Mar 16, 2006 |
| D-NE | Ben Nelson | Original | Mar 16, 2006 |
| D-FL | Bill Nelson | Original | Mar 16, 2006 |
| D-AR | Blanche L. Lincoln | Original | Mar 16, 2006 |
| D-ND | Byron L. Dorgan | Original | Mar 16, 2006 |
| R-MO | Christopher S. Bond | Original | Mar 16, 2006 |
| R-NE | Chuck Hagel | Original | Mar 16, 2006 |
| R-MT | Conrad R. Burns | Original | Mar 16, 2006 |
| D-MI | Debbie Stabenow | Original | Mar 16, 2006 |
| D-NV | Harry Reid | Original | Mar 16, 2006 |
| R-MO | Jim Talent | Original | Mar 16, 2006 |
| R-SD | John Thune | Original | Mar 16, 2006 |
| D-CO | Ken Salazar | Original | Mar 16, 2006 |
| D-WA | Maria Cantwell | Original | Mar 16, 2006 |
| D-MN | Mark Dayton | Original | Mar 16, 2006 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 16, 2006Introduced in Senate
- Mar 16, 2006Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Related bills 6
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1692 | Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2005 | Related bill | Sep 22, 2005 |
| 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 |
| HR 5099 | Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2006 | Related bill | May 2, 2006 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Administrative procedure
- Agricultural conservation
- Agricultural credit
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Alabama
- Animals
- Checks
- Cotton
- Crop insurance
- Dairy industry
- Department of Agriculture
- Disaster relief
- Drainage
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electronic benefits transfers
- Emergency Management
- Environmental Protection
- Federal budgets
- Federal employees
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Floods
- Florida
- Food relief
- Government Operations and Politics
- Grants-in-aid
- Grazing
- Habitat conservation
- Health
- Hurricane aftermath legislation
- Hurricanes
- Indemnity
- 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
- Trees
- Vaccines
- Water Resources Development
- Watersheds
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 16, 2006Introduced in Senate
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