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S. 3855: Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006

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S. 3855: Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006

109th Congress · introduced 2006-09-06 · Agriculture and Food · Latest: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10565)

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2006-09-06 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10565) Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006

Plain summary

Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance for: (1) crop disaster assistance for qualifying quantity or quality losses for the 2005 or 2006 crop due to weather or related conditions (including disease, insects, and delayed harvest; (2) livestock assistance for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses; (3) livestock indemnity payments for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses (including wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and anthrax); (4) ewe lamb replacement and retention; (5) sugar beet disaster assistance for crop year 2005; (6) sugarcane growers in Hawaii through a payment to an agricultural transportation cooperative in Hawaii; (7) flooded crop and grazing land in the Devils Lake basin, the McHugh, Lake Laretta, and Rose Lake closed drainage areas, North Dakota; and (8) bovine tuberculosis indemnification. Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance for: (1) state grants to promote agriculture; and (2) grants for value of production. Requires a recipient state to give priority for livestock and specialty crops. Directs the Secretary to make supplemental economic loss payments to: (1) producers on a farm who received a crop year 2005 direct payment; and (2) dairy producers eligible to receive a 2005 national dairy market loss payment. Directs the Secretary to make grants to state agriculture departments or comparable agencies in qualified states for direct economic loss payments to eligible small businesses. Directs the Secretary to use specified funds to: (1) carry out emergency measures under the emergency watershed protection and emergency conservation programs; and (2) hire additional state and county Farm Service Agency personnel to expedite the delivery of agricultural disaster and economic assistance.

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Official text

Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND] · 27 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), John Thune (R-SD), Patty Murray (D-WA), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong109-s3855 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong109 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong109