To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to treat certain planted soybean crops as harvested commodity crops under the Market Facilitation Program.

I 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 1238 To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to treat certain planted soybean crops as harvested commodity crops under the Market Facilitation Program. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FEBRUARY 14, 2019 Mr. ABRAHAM (for himself, Mr. ESTES, Mr. KELLY of Mississippi, and Mr. GUEST) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com- mittee on Agriculture A BILL To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to treat certain plant- ed soybean crops as harvested commodity crops under the Market Facilitation 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. PLANTED CROP TREATED AS HARVESTED 3 CROP. 4 If the Secretary of Agriculture determines that mar- 5 ket conditions have discouraged or prevented a producer 6 of a soybean crop from harvesting such crop or entering 7 such crop in to the stream of commerce, the Secretary 8 shall, for purposes of the Market Facilitation Program 9 VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:38 Feb 28, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H1238.IH H1238 pamtmann on DSKBFK8HB2PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 1238 IH under part 1409 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations 1 (established pursuant to the Commodity Credit Corpora- 2 tion Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714 et seq.)) treat such soy- 3 bean crop as an eligible crop for payments under such 4 Market Facilitation Program. 5 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:38 Feb 28, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H1238.IH H1238 pamtmann on DSKBFK8HB2PROD with BILLS