H.R. 6338: To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to permit certain livestock owners to plant a secondary crop for the use of the producer as emergency feed.
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H.R. 6338: To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to permit certain livestock owners to plant a secondary crop for the use of the producer as emergency feed.
111th Congress · introduced 2010-09-29 · Agriculture and Food · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2010-09-29 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large] · what a sponsor is
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Official title
To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to permit certain livestock owners to plant a secondary crop for the use of the producer as emergency feed.
Plain summary
Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to permit an agricultural producer who owns livestock to plant a second crop on the same acreage for harvest in the same crop year as a first crop and receive full prevented planting indemnity payments if such producer: (1) is located in an area that experienced excessive precipitation which prevented the first crop's planting by its final planting date; and (2) uses the second crop solely for emergency feed for the producer's livestock.
Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to permit certain livestock owners to plant a secondary crop for the use of the producer as emergency feed.
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large] · 0 cosponsors
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-111hr6338.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/111/hr>
Record fed-us-cong111-hr6338 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong111 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong111