106th Congress / Bills / H R 2559

Title

To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to strengthen the safety net for agricultural producers by providing greater access to more affordable risk management tools and improved protection from production and income loss, to improve the efficiency and integrity of the Federal crop insurance program, and for other purposes.

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Categories (What are categories?)

Administrative fees | Administrative procedure | Agricultural conservation | Agricultural cooperatives | Agricultural estimating and reporting | Agricultural insurance | Agricultural labor | Agricultural pests | Agricultural prices | Agricultural production | Agricultural research | Agriculture | Animals | Auditing | Barley | Budgets | Business | Cattle | Civil liberties | Colleges | Confidential communications | Congress | Congressional reporting requirements | Consumer education | Consumers | Corporation directors | Crop insurance | Disaster insurance | Disaster relief | Education | Electronic data interchange | Emergency management | Environmental protection | Executive departments | Executive reorganization | Farm income | Farmers | Federal advisory bodies | Feeds | Fertilizers | Finance | Fines (Penalties) | Fire prevention | Fraud | Futures trading | Goats | Government corporations -- Federal Crop Insurance Corporation | Government information | Government paperwork | Government publicity | Government trust funds | Higher education | Insurance agents | Insurance companies | Insurance premiums | Insurance rates | Labor | Law | Licenses -- Fees | Livestock | Livestock industry | Minorities | Minority business enterprises | Natural resources | Nonprofit organizations | Options (Contract) | Organic farming | Pest control | Poultry industry | Public contracts | Public-private partnerships | Reinsurance | Research and development | Research and development contracts | Right of privacy | Risk management | Science policy | Sheep | Social services | Soil erosion | Sustainable agriculture | Swine | Technology | Telecommunication | Trade associations | Waste in government spending | Water resources | Weather forecasting | Wetland conservation | Wheat

Votes on this bill

Date	Chamber	Result	Vote
5/25/00	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 115: On the Conference Report H.R. 2559 Conference Report; Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000
3/23/00	Senate	Passed	Session 2, roll call 44: On Passage of the Bill H.R. 2559 as amended; Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000