A bill to provide a supplemental payment to assist agricultural producers in mitigating increasing input costs, including energy and fertilizer costs.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make a supplemental payment (equal to the direct payment that the producer received for a 2005 crop) to assist agricultural producers in mitigating increasing input costs, including energy and fertilizer costs.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
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[S. 2085 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2085

 To provide a supplemental payment to assist agricultural producers in 
  mitigating increasing input costs, including energy and fertilizer 
                                 costs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 13, 2005

  Mr. Baucus introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide a supplemental payment to assist agricultural producers in 
  mitigating increasing input costs, including energy and fertilizer 
                                 costs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SUPPLEMENTAL PAYMENT.

    (a) In General.--To assist agricultural producers in mitigating 
increasing input costs (including energy and fertilizer costs), the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall make available to producers on a farm 
that are eligible for a direct payment under section 1103 or 1303 of 
the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 7913, 
7953) a supplemental payment equal to the amount of the direct payment 
that the producers on the farm received for the 2005 crop under that 
section.
    (b) Administration.--The Secretary shall use the funds, facilities, 
and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out this 
section.
    (c) Emergency Designation.--The amounts made available by the 
transfer of funds in or pursuant to this section are designated as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 402 of H. Con. Res. 95 (109th 
Congress).
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