Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2003
Last action on Feb 5, 2003Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
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Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide: (1) emergency financial assistance to agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2002 crop losses due to weather or related conditions; and (2) payments to livestock producers who have incurred 2001 and 2002 losses in an emergency-designated county.
Permits livestock producers with qualifying losses in both years to elect to receive payments in either, but not both, of such years.
Makes producers ineligible for crop disaster assistance if they did not: (1) get Federal crop insurance for insurable commodities; and (2) file required paperwork and pay related fees for noninsurable commodities. Sets forth waiver provisions.
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