See also CBO’s Cost Estimates Explained, www.cbo.gov/publication/54437;
How CBO Prepares Cost Estimates, www.cbo.gov/publication/53519; and Glossary, www.cbo.gov/publication/42904.
Congressional Budget Office
Cost Estimate
H.R. 267, 2020 WHIP+ Reauthorization Act
As reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on September 20, 2021
By Fiscal Year, Millions of Dollars
Direct Spending (Outlays)
0 10 23
Revenues
0 0 0
in the Deficit
0 10 23
Spending Subject to
Appropriation (Outlays)
1,000 1,500 1,500
Statutory pay-as-you-go
procedures apply?
Yes Mandate Effects
Increases on-budget deficits in any
of the four consecutive 10-year
periods beginning in 2033?
No
Contains intergovernmental mandate? No
Contains private-sector mandate? No
The bill would
• Authorize the appropriation of $8.5 billion to compensate agricultural producers for crop losses that result
from qualifying disasters in calendar years 2020 and 2021
• Require producers without federal crop insurance or coverage under the noninsured crop disaster assistance
program (NAP) to enroll in one of those programs for the two years following receipt of assistance
Estimated budgetary effects would mainly stem from
• Spending the authorized amount for losses incurred in calendar years 2020 and 2021
• New enrollments in federal crop insurance or NAP by producers as required under the bill
Areas of significant uncertainty include
• Estimating the extent of crop losses that exceed crop insurance and NAP coverage for calendar years
2020 and 2021
• Estimating the number of producers newly enrolling in crop insurance or NAP and the losses that would be
covered under those policies
Detailed estimate begins on the next page.
