[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2833 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2833

  To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to improve the calculation of 
            county-level agriculture risk coverage payments.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 10, 2018

  Mr. Hoeven introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to improve the calculation of 
            county-level agriculture risk coverage payments.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AGRICULTURE RISK COVERAGE.

    Section 1117(e) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9017(e)) 
is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 
        subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and indenting 
        appropriately;
            (2) by striking ``If agriculture'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(1) In general.--If agriculture''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Calculation for county coverage.--In the case of 
        county coverage, the agriculture risk coverage payment shall be 
        calculated--
                    ``(A) using county data of the National 
                Agricultural Statistics Service; or
                    ``(B) if the data described in subparagraph (A) is 
                unavailable, using county data comparable to the data 
                described in subparagraph (A), as determined by the 
                applicable State office of the Farm Service Agency.''.
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