To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to treat certain planted soybean crops as harvested commodity crops under the Market Facilitation Program.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1238 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1238

To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to treat certain planted soybean 
   crops as harvested commodity crops under the Market Facilitation 
                                Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 14, 2019

Mr. Abraham (for himself, Mr. Estes, Mr. Kelly of Mississippi, and Mr. 
    Guest) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to treat certain planted soybean 
   crops as harvested commodity crops under the Market Facilitation 
                                Program.

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

SECTION 1. PLANTED CROP TREATED AS HARVESTED CROP.

    If the Secretary of Agriculture determines that market conditions 
have discouraged or prevented a producer of a soybean crop from 
harvesting such crop or entering such crop in to the stream of 
commerce, the Secretary shall, for purposes of the Market Facilitation 
Program under part 1409 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations 
(established pursuant to the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act 
(15 U.S.C. 714 et seq.)) treat such soybean crop as an eligible crop 
for payments under such Market Facilitation Program.
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