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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 3253 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to require research and |
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| 6 | 6 | | development on frost or cold weather insurance, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | NOVEMBER8, 2023 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. R |
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| 10 | 10 | | UBIOintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 11 | 11 | | to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to require re- |
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| 14 | 14 | | search and development on frost or cold weather insur- |
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| 15 | 15 | | ance, and for other purposes. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Temperature Endorse-4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | ment for Multiperil Policies Act of 2023’’ or the ‘‘TEMP 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Act of 2023’’. 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | •S 3253 IS |
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| 25 | 25 | | SEC. 2. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ON FROST OR COLD 1 |
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| 26 | 26 | | WEATHER INSURANCE. 2 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Section 522(c) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 3 |
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| 28 | 28 | | U.S.C. 1522(c)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-4 |
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| 29 | 29 | | lowing: 5 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ‘‘(20) F |
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| 31 | 31 | | ROST OR COLD WEATHER INSUR -6 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ANCE.— 7 |
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| 33 | 33 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 34 | 34 | | N GENERAL.—The Corporation shall 8 |
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| 35 | 35 | | carry out research and development, or offer to 9 |
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| 36 | 36 | | enter into 1 or more contracts with 1 or more 10 |
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| 37 | 37 | | qualified persons to carry out research and de-11 |
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| 38 | 38 | | velopment, regarding an index-based policy to 12 |
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| 39 | 39 | | insure crops (including tomatoes, peppers, sug-13 |
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| 40 | 40 | | arcane, strawberries, melons, citrus, peaches, 14 |
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| 41 | 41 | | blueberries, and any other crop) on a nationally 15 |
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| 42 | 42 | | available basis against losses due to a frost or 16 |
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| 43 | 43 | | cold weather event. 17 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ‘‘(B) R |
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| 45 | 45 | | ESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT .— 18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | Research and development under subparagraph 19 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (A) shall— 20 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ‘‘(i) evaluate the effectiveness of risk 21 |
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| 49 | 49 | | management tools, such as the use of an 22 |
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| 50 | 50 | | index, with respect to low frequency and 23 |
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| 51 | 51 | | catastrophic loss weather events; and 24 |
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| 52 | 52 | | ‘‘(ii) result in a policy that provides 25 |
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| 53 | 53 | | protection for at least 1 of the following: 26 |
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| 56 | 56 | | •S 3253 IS |
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| 57 | 57 | | ‘‘(I) Production loss. 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | ‘‘(II) Revenue loss. 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | ‘‘(C) R |
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| 60 | 60 | | EPORT.—Not later than 1 year 3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | after the date of enactment of this paragraph, 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | the Corporation shall submit to the Committee 5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the 6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | Senate and the Committee on Agriculture of 7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | the House of Representatives a report that de-8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | scribes— 9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ‘‘(i) the results of the research and 10 |
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| 68 | 68 | | development carried out under this para-11 |
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| 69 | 69 | | graph; and 12 |
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| 70 | 70 | | ‘‘(ii) any recommendations with re-13 |
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| 71 | 71 | | spect to those results.’’. 14 |
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