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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 292 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to require the Federal Crop |
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| 6 | 6 | | Insurance Corporation to carry out research and development regarding |
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| 7 | 7 | | a policy to insure table, wine, and juice grapes against losses due to |
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| 8 | 8 | | a freeze event, and for other purposes. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 10 | 10 | | JANUARY9, 2025 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. L |
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| 12 | 12 | | ANGWORTHYintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 13 | 13 | | Committee on Agriculture |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to require the |
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| 16 | 16 | | Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to carry out re- |
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| 17 | 17 | | search and development regarding a policy to insure |
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| 18 | 18 | | table, wine, and juice grapes against losses due to a |
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| 19 | 19 | | freeze event, and for other purposes. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Grape Research And 4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Protection Expansion Act’’ or the ‘‘GRAPE Act’’. 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | SEC. 2. POLICY TO INSURE TABLE, WINE, AND JUICE 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | GRAPES AGAINST LOSSES DUE TO A FREEZE 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | EVENT. 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Section 522(c) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | U.S.C. 1522(c)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | lowing: 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | ‘‘(20) T |
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| 35 | 35 | | ABLE, WINE, AND JUICE GRAPES.— 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 37 | 37 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | after the date of the enactment of this para-9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | graph, the Corporation shall carry out research 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | and development, or offer to enter into 1 or 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | more contracts with 1 or more qualified persons 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | to carry out research and development, regard-13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ing a policy to insure table, wine, and juice 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | grapes against losses due to a freeze event. 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ‘‘(B) A |
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| 46 | 46 | | VAILABILITY OF POLICY.—Notwith-16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | standing the last sentence of section 508(a)(1), 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | and section 508(a)(2), not later than 18 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | months after the date of the enactment of this 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | paragraph, the Corporation shall make available 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | a policy described in subparagraph (A) if the 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | requirements of section 508(h) are met. 22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | ‘‘(C) R |
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| 54 | 54 | | EPORT.—Not later than 2 years 23 |
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| 55 | 55 | | after the date of enactment of this paragraph, 24 |
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| 56 | 56 | | the Corporation shall submit to the Committees 25 |
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| 57 | 57 | | on Appropriations and Agriculture of the House 26 |
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| 61 | 61 | | of Representatives and the Committees on Ap-1 |
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| 62 | 62 | | propriations and Agriculture, Nutrition, and 2 |
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| 63 | 63 | | Forestry of the Senate a report that includes— 3 |
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| 64 | 64 | | ‘‘(i) the results of the research con-4 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ducted under subparagraph (A); and 5 |
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| 66 | 66 | | ‘‘(ii) a description of the policies made 6 |
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| 67 | 67 | | available under this paragraph.’’. 7 |
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