Farm Rescue Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5473 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5473

   To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require the Secretary of 
    Agriculture to make certain advance partial price loss coverage 
                      payments for crop year 2025.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 18, 2025

  Ms. Letlow introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require the Secretary of 
    Agriculture to make certain advance partial price loss coverage 
                      payments for crop year 2025.

    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 ``Farm Rescue Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. AVAILABILITY OF ADVANCE PARTIAL PRICE LOSS COVERAGE PAYMENTS 
              FOR CROP YEAR 2025.

    (a) In General.--Section 1116(e) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 
U.S.C. 9016(e)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``If the Secretary'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), if the 
        Secretary''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Availability of advance partial payments for crop 
        year 2025.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the 
                date of the enactment of this paragraph, if the 
                Secretary determines, based on the best available data 
                and projections of national average market prices, that 
                price loss coverage payments for the 2025 crop year 
                will be required to be provided under subsection (a) 
                with respect to a covered commodity, the Secretary 
                shall--
                            ``(i) give producers on a farm the option 
                        to receive partial payments of the price loss 
                        coverage payment to be made for that covered 
                        commodity for the 2025 crop year with respect 
                        to payment acres for the covered commodity on 
                        the farm; and
                            ``(ii) to each producer that opts to 
                        receive such payments under clause (i), 
                        provide--
                                    ``(I) a one-time partial payment in 
                                accordance with subparagraph (B); and
                                    ``(II) a subsequent payment in 
                                accordance with section 1115(j).
                    ``(B) Amount.--Notwithstanding section 1115(a), a 
                partial payment under subparagraph (A)(ii)(I) shall be 
                in an amount that is not less than 40 percent and not 
                greater than 50 percent of the projected price loss 
                coverage payment for the covered commodity for the 2025 
                crop year, as determined by the Secretary.
                    ``(C) Recovery of erroneous payment.--If the 
                Secretary determines that a partial payment made under 
                subparagraph (A) was not required with respect to a 
                covered commodity for the 2025 crop year the Secretary 
                may recover the amount of the partial payment in such a 
                manner as the Secretary determines appropriate.''.
    (b) Subsequent Payment for Crop Year 2025.--Section 1115 of the 
Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9015) is amended by adding at the 
end the following:
    ``(j) Subsequent Payment for Crop Year 2025.--In the case of a 
producer on a farm that receives a partial payment under section 
1116(e)(2)(A) for a covered commodity for the 2025 crop year with 
respect to payment acres for the covered commodity on the farm, the 
Secretary shall, as soon as practicable after the end of the applicable 
marketing year for the covered commodity, provide a subsequent payment 
to the producer in an amount equal to--
            ``(1) the payment amount for such payment acres for the 
        covered commodity determined under subsection (i) for the 2025 
        crop year; minus
            ``(2) the amount provided for such payment acres for the 
        covered commodity under section 1116(e)(2)(B) for the 2025 crop 
        year.''.
    (c) Rulemaking.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall issue such 
rules as are necessary to carry out the amendments made by this 
section.
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