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118THCONGRESS
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DSESSION S. 4252
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to establish additional payments
for unborn livestock under the livestock indemnity payment program.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MAY2, 2024
Mr. C
RUZintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to
the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
A BILL
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to establish addi-
tional payments for unborn livestock under the livestock
indemnity payment program.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Livestock Indemnity 4
Program Enhancement Act of 2024’’ or the ‘‘LIP En-5
hancement Act of 2024’’. 6
SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL PAYMENT FOR UNBORN LIVESTOCK. 7
Section 1501(b) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 8
U.S.C. 9081(b)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-9
lowing: 10
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‘‘(5) ADDITIONAL PAYMENT FOR UNBORN LIVE -1
STOCK.— 2
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—In the case of unborn 3
livestock death losses incurred on or after Janu-4
ary 1, 2024, the Secretary shall make an addi-5
tional payment to eligible producers on farms 6
that have incurred such losses in excess of the 7
normal mortality due to a condition specified in 8
paragraph (1). 9
‘‘(B) P
AYMENT RATE .—Additional pay-10
ments under subparagraph (A) shall be made at 11
a rate— 12
‘‘(i) determined by the Secretary; and 13
‘‘(ii) less than or equal to 85 percent 14
of the payment rate established with re-15
spect to the lowest weight class of the live-16
stock, as determined by the Secretary, act-17
ing through the Administrator of the Farm 18
Service Agency. 19
‘‘(C) P
AYMENT AMOUNT .—The amount of 20
a payment to an eligible producer that has in-21
curred unborn livestock death losses shall be 22
equal to the payment rate determined under 23
subparagraph (B) multiplied, in the case of live-24
stock described in— 25
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‘‘(i) subparagraph (A), (B), or (F) of 1
subsection (a)(4), by 1; 2
‘‘(ii) subparagraph (D) of such sub-3
section, by 2; 4
‘‘(iii) subparagraph (E) of such sub-5
section, by 12; and 6
‘‘(iv) subparagraph (G) of such sub-7
section, by the average number of birthed 8
animals (for one gestation cycle) for the 9
species of each such livestock, as deter-10
mined by the Secretary. 11
‘‘(D) U
NBORN LIVESTOCK DEATH LOSSES 12
DEFINED.—In this paragraph, the term ‘unborn 13
livestock death losses’ means losses of any live-14
stock described in subparagraph (A), (B), (D), 15
(E), (F), or (G) of subsection (a)(4) that was 16
gestating on the date of the death of the live-17
stock.’’. 18
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