Agriculture Committee, General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit Subcommittee
Introduced
In Committee
On Floor
Passed Chamber
Enacted
Rehabilitating Economic Success Through Overcoming Rural Emergencies Act or the RESTORE Act This bill expands the Department of Agriculture's Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus (WHIP+) to include coverage for losses of crops due to high winds or derechos, polar vortexes (including losses to dairy cooperatives due to power outages or curtailments), hailstorms, freeze, and droughts occurring in the 2020 and 2021 calendar years, with specified limitations. Under current law, the program provides disaster payments to agricultural producers who suffered crop, tree, bush, and vine losses resulting from hurricanes, wildfires, and other qualifying natural disasters that occurred in the 2018 and 2019 calendar years.
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
Agriculture and Food
Administrative law and regulatory proceduresAgricultural insuranceAppropriationsAtmospheric science and weatherDepartment of AgricultureDisaster relief and insuranceFiresNatural disasters
RESTORE Act
USA117th CongressHR-1692| House
| Updated: 5/21/2021
Rehabilitating Economic Success Through Overcoming Rural Emergencies Act or the RESTORE Act This bill expands the Department of Agriculture's Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus (WHIP+) to include coverage for losses of crops due to high winds or derechos, polar vortexes (including losses to dairy cooperatives due to power outages or curtailments), hailstorms, freeze, and droughts occurring in the 2020 and 2021 calendar years, with specified limitations. Under current law, the program provides disaster payments to agricultural producers who suffered crop, tree, bush, and vine losses resulting from hurricanes, wildfires, and other qualifying natural disasters that occurred in the 2018 and 2019 calendar years.
Agriculture Committee, General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit Subcommittee
Agriculture and Food
Introduced
In Committee
On Floor
Passed Chamber
Enacted
Administrative law and regulatory proceduresAgricultural insuranceAppropriationsAtmospheric science and weatherDepartment of AgricultureDisaster relief and insuranceFiresNatural disasters