End Subsidies for Tobacco Act

End Subsidies for Tobacco Act

This bill amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to prohibit the Department of Agriculture from subsidizing crop insurance premiums for tobacco. Any savings that occur as a result of this bill must be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2730 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2730

To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to eliminate premium subsidies 
                    for crop insurance for tobacco.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 25, 2017

 Mr. Russell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to eliminate premium subsidies 
                    for crop insurance for tobacco.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``End Subsidies for Tobacco Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON PAYMENT OF PORTION OF PREMIUM BY CORPORATION FOR 
              TOBACCO.

    Section 508(e) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(e)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(9) Prohibition on payment of portion of premium by 
        corporation for tobacco.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Effective beginning with the 
                2018 reinsurance year, notwithstanding any other 
                provision of this subtitle, the Corporation shall not 
                pay any portion of the premium for a policy or plan of 
                insurance for tobacco under this subtitle.
                    ``(B) Deficit reduction.--Any savings realized as a 
                result of subparagraph (A) shall be deposited in the 
                Treasury and used for Federal budget deficit 
                reduction.''.
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