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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | DSESSION S. 4252 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to establish additional payments |
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| 6 | 6 | | for unborn livestock under the livestock indemnity payment program. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MAY2, 2024 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. C |
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| 10 | 10 | | RUZintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to |
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| 11 | 11 | | the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to establish addi- |
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| 14 | 14 | | tional payments for unborn livestock under the livestock |
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| 15 | 15 | | indemnity payment program. |
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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 ‘‘Livestock Indemnity 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Program Enhancement Act of 2024’’ or the ‘‘LIP En-5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | hancement Act of 2024’’. 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL PAYMENT FOR UNBORN LIVESTOCK. 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | Section 1501(b) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | U.S.C. 9081(b)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-9 |
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| 25 | 25 | | lowing: 10 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •S 4252 IS |
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| 29 | 29 | | ‘‘(5) ADDITIONAL PAYMENT FOR UNBORN LIVE -1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | STOCK.— 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 32 | 32 | | N GENERAL.—In the case of unborn 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | livestock death losses incurred on or after Janu-4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | ary 1, 2024, the Secretary shall make an addi-5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | tional payment to eligible producers on farms 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | that have incurred such losses in excess of the 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | normal mortality due to a condition specified in 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | paragraph (1). 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ‘‘(B) P |
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| 40 | 40 | | AYMENT RATE .—Additional pay-10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ments under subparagraph (A) shall be made at 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | a rate— 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ‘‘(i) determined by the Secretary; and 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ‘‘(ii) less than or equal to 85 percent 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | of the payment rate established with re-15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | spect to the lowest weight class of the live-16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | stock, as determined by the Secretary, act-17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ing through the Administrator of the Farm 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | Service Agency. 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | ‘‘(C) P |
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| 51 | 51 | | AYMENT AMOUNT .—The amount of 20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | a payment to an eligible producer that has in-21 |
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| 53 | 53 | | curred unborn livestock death losses shall be 22 |
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| 54 | 54 | | equal to the payment rate determined under 23 |
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| 55 | 55 | | subparagraph (B) multiplied, in the case of live-24 |
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| 56 | 56 | | stock described in— 25 |
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| 60 | 60 | | ‘‘(i) subparagraph (A), (B), or (F) of 1 |
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| 61 | 61 | | subsection (a)(4), by 1; 2 |
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| 62 | 62 | | ‘‘(ii) subparagraph (D) of such sub-3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | section, by 2; 4 |
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| 64 | 64 | | ‘‘(iii) subparagraph (E) of such sub-5 |
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| 65 | 65 | | section, by 12; and 6 |
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| 66 | 66 | | ‘‘(iv) subparagraph (G) of such sub-7 |
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| 67 | 67 | | section, by the average number of birthed 8 |
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| 68 | 68 | | animals (for one gestation cycle) for the 9 |
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| 69 | 69 | | species of each such livestock, as deter-10 |
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| 70 | 70 | | mined by the Secretary. 11 |
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| 71 | 71 | | ‘‘(D) U |
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| 72 | 72 | | NBORN LIVESTOCK DEATH LOSSES 12 |
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| 73 | 73 | | DEFINED.—In this paragraph, the term ‘unborn 13 |
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| 74 | 74 | | livestock death losses’ means losses of any live-14 |
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| 75 | 75 | | stock described in subparagraph (A), (B), (D), 15 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (E), (F), or (G) of subsection (a)(4) that was 16 |
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| 77 | 77 | | gestating on the date of the death of the live-17 |
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| 78 | 78 | | stock.’’. 18 |
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