Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program Extension Act of 2018

Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program Extension Act of 2018

This bill amends the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 to extend the Department of Agriculture 2017 Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program. (Under current law, the program provides disaster payments to agricultural producers who suffered crop, tree, bush, and vine losses resulting from hurricanes and wildfires that occurred in the 2017 calendar year.)

The bill extends the availability of the funding for the program through December 31, 2020, and expands the program to include losses resulting from hurricanes and wildfires occurring in calendar year 2018.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7200 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7200

    To extend indemnity for wildfires and hurricanes, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 29, 2018

 Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
    To extend indemnity for wildfires and hurricanes, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity 
Program Extension Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION.

    Title I of subdivision 1 of division B of the Bipartisan Budget Act 
of 2018 (Public Law 115-123) is amended under the heading ``Department 
of Agriculture--Agricultural Programs--Processing, Research and 
Marketing--Office of the Secretary''--
            (1) by striking ``December 31, 2019'' and inserting 
        ``December 31, 2020'';
            (2) by inserting ``Florence, Michael,'' after ``Maria,''; 
        and
            (3) by inserting ``or 2018'' after ``occurring in calendar 
        year 2017''.
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