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To improve drought-related disaster assistance programs of the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill expands the Department of Agriculture's emergency assistance programs to improve drought-related disaster relief. It amends the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program to include drought as a qualifying event and specifically adds crawfish harvest losses due to adverse weather or drought as eligible for assistance. The bill requires the Secretary of Agriculture to establish documentation standards for collecting data on crawfish production losses and defining drought-related loss conditions. It also clarifies that the Livestock Forage Disaster Program covers both weaned and unweaned livestock.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] (R-LA)
1 cosponsor
- Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] (R-LA)
Actions (2)
- May 7, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. · senate
- May 7, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
May 7, 2025
Mr. Kennedy (for himself and Mr. Cassidy) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
A BILL
To improve drought-related disaster assistance programs of the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Crawfish Recovery Assistance from Weather Disasters And Droughts Act” or the “CRAWDAD Act”.
SEC. 2. EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOR LIVESTOCK, HONEY BEES, AND FARM-RAISED FISH PROGRAM.
Section 1501(d) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9081(d)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting “drought,” after “adverse weather,”;
(2) in paragraph (2)—
(A) by inserting “adverse weather, drought,” after “disease,”; and
(B) by inserting “and losses of crawfish harvest due to adverse weather or drought” after “cattle tick fever”; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
“(5) Documentation standards.—For purposes of this subsection, the Secretary, in consultation with eligible producers of farm-raised fish, shall establish a documentation standard for each of the following:
“(A) Collecting data.
“(B) Production of crawfish, as related to reductions in harvest.
“(C) Defining loss conditions due to drought.”.
SEC. 3. LIVESTOCK FORAGE DISASTER PROGRAM.
Section 1501(c)(1)(A)(i) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9081(c)(1)(A)(i)) is amended, in the matter preceding subclause (I), by striking “means livestock” and inserting “means livestock, whether weaned or unweaned,”. <all>
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