Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Rehabilitating Economic Success Through Overcoming Rural Emergencies Act” or the “RESTORE Act”.
Rehabilitating Economic Success Through Overcoming Rural Emergencies Act
A BILL
To extend and expand the Wildfire Hurricane Indemnity Program to cover losses due to high winds, polar vortexes, and hailstorms.
Sec. 2 USDA Wildfire Hurricane Indemnity Program extension and expansion
The Secretary of Agriculture shall make payments for necessary expenses related to losses of crops (including losses due to high winds or derechos, polar vortexes (including losses to dairy cooperatives due to power outages or curtailments), hailstorms, freeze, and all losses eligible for assistance under subpart O of part 760 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, including any drought losses in 2020 and 2021, notwithstanding the limitations of section 791(b) of title VII of division B of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020) pursuant to title I of the Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act, 2019 (Public Law 116–20), as amended by section 116 of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–59) and as further amended by subsection (c) of section 791 of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94) for crop losses in calendar year 2020 and calendar year 2021, except that payments for losses incurred in 2020 and 2021 shall be—
in the case of producers, subject only to the limitations provided under section 760.1507 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations; and
in the case of dairy cooperatives, shall be paid in the same manner and subject to the same limitations as cooperative processors under section 791(c) of title VII of division B of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94).