Agricultural Disaster Assistance and Western States Emergency Unfinished Business Appropriations Act, 2007

Summary

Agricultural Disaster Assistance and Western States Emergency Unfinished Business Appropriations Act, 2007 - Appropriates FY2007 amounts for emergency financial assistance to producers on a farm that incurred qualifying quantity or quality losses for the 2005 or 2006 crop, or that part of the 2007 crop year before February 28, 2007, due to damaging weather or any related condition (including crop diseases, insects, and delayed planting). Requires that an eligible crop must have been planted before February 28, 2007, or in the case of prevented planting or other total loss, would have been planted before such date. Requires a producer who suffered qualifying losses to elect assistance for only one of such years. Appropriates amounts for payments through the livestock compensation program for livestock assistance for disaster-caused losses between January 1, 2005 and February 28, 2007, including losses from blizzards that began in 2006 and continued into January 2007. States that a producer: (1) shall elect to receive payments in only one of such years, and that such losses must have been incurred in a disaster-designated county; and (2) may elect to receive compensation for wildfire-caused losses in the 2007 grazing season. Appropriates amounts for livestock indemnity payments to producers on farms in disaster-designated counties that have incurred livestock losses between January 1, 2005 and February 28, 2007, including losses from blizzards that started in 2006 and continued into January 2007. Requires a producer who suffered qualifying losses to elect assistance for only one of such years. Appropriates amounts for agricultural and farm production land cleanup and restoration under the emergency conservation program. Reduces specified producer payments by amounts received for the same or similar loss under: (1) the Department of Defense, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006; (2) an agricultural disaster assistance provision contained in the announcement of the Secretary on January 26, 2006, or August 29, 2006; or (3) the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006. Sets forth administrative provisions. Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to revise national dairy market loss payment amount provisions. Appropriates amounts for dairy production losses in disaster counties. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, in states with a shortage of claims adjusters, to permit the use of one certified claims adjuster with respect to animal forage crops (under the noninsured crop disaster assistance program). Appropriates amounts for emergency grants for low-income migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Appropriates amounts for Farm Service Agency salaries and expenses. Appropriates additional funds to the Department of Commerce, to remain available through FY2008, for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for operations, research, and facilities. Directs the National Marine Fisheries Service to distribute such amounts among eligible recipients of assistance for the commercial fishery failure declared by the Secretary of Commerce on August 10, 2006. Appropriates additional funds to the Department of the Interior (Bureau of Land Management) and to the Department of Agriculture (Forest Service) for wildland fire management/suppression, to be made available only if previously provided funds are insufficient. Appropriates additional funds to the Department of Agriculture for FY2007 for payments to be made, to the maximum extent practicable, in the same amounts and in the same manner as were paid to states and counties in 2006 under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000.

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Timeline

1. 8 May 2007

   Introduced

   Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 8 May 2007

   Introduced

   Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 8 May 2007

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 8 May 2007

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

5. 9 May 2007

   Reported

   Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 387 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2237, H.R. 2206 and H.R. 2207.

   Source: Floor

6. 10 May 2007

   Floor

   Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 387, H.R. 2207 is laid on the table.

   Source: Floor

7. 10 May 2007

   Passed

   Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

   Source: Floor

8. 10 May 2007

   Vote

   On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 302 - 120 (Roll no. 336).

   Source: Floor

9. 10 May 2007

   Vote

   Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 302 - 120 (Roll no. 336).

   Source: Floor

10. 10 May 2007

    Vote

    On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 184 - 233 (Roll no. 335). (consideration: CR 5/11/2007 H4879)

    Source: Floor

11. 10 May 2007

    Floor

    The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR 5/11/2007 H4878)

    Source: Floor

12. 10 May 2007

    Floor

    Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2237, H.R. 2206 and H.R. 2207.

    Source: Floor

13. 10 May 2007

    Floor

    Mr. Lewis (CA) moved to recommit with instructions to Appropriations. (consideration: CR 5/11/2007 H4878)

    Source: Floor

14. 10 May 2007

    Floor

    The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR 5/11/2007 H4878)

    Source: Floor

15. 10 May 2007

    Floor

    Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 387. (consideration: CR 5/11/2007 H4868-4680; text of measure as introduced: CR H4868-4870)

    Source: Floor

16. 10 May 2007

    Passed

    Rule H. Res. 387 passed House.

    Source: Floor

Votes

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Sponsors

• Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] · D · Sponsor
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Related records

• related to → Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2237) to provide for the redeployment of United States Armed Forces and defense contractors from Iraq, providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2206) making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2207) making supplemental appropriations for agricultural and other emergency assistance for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes.
• related to ← U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007
• amends ← An amendment printed in Part B of House Report 110-143 and considered as adopted pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 387.