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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2117 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to promote crop insurance support |
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| 6 | 6 | | for beginning farmers and ranchers and veteran farmers and ranchers, |
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| 7 | 7 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | MARCH14, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. F |
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| 11 | 11 | | EENSTRA(for himself and Ms. CRAIG) introduced the following bill; |
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| 12 | 12 | | which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to promote crop |
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| 15 | 15 | | insurance support for beginning farmers and ranchers |
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| 16 | 16 | | and veteran farmers and ranchers, and for other pur- |
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| 17 | 17 | | poses. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Crop Insurance for 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | Future Farmers Act’’. 5 |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. CROP INSURANCE SUPPORT FOR BEGINNING FARM-1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | ERS AND RANCHERS AND VETERAN FARMERS 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | AND RANCHERS. 3 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (a) D |
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| 30 | 30 | | EFINITION OFBEGINNINGFARMER ORRANCH-4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ER.—Section 502(b)(3) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act 5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (7 U.S.C. 1502(b)(3)) is amended by striking ‘‘5 crop 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | years’’ and inserting ‘‘10 crop years’’. 7 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (b) D |
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| 35 | 35 | | EFINITION OFVETERANFARMERS ANDRANCH-8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ERS.—Section 502(b)(14)(B) of the Federal Crop Insur-9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ance Act (7 U.S.C. 1502(b)(14)(B)) is amended— 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (1) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘5 years’’ and in-11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | serting ‘‘10 crop years’’; and 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (2) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘5-year’’ and in-13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | serting ‘‘10-year’’. 14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (c) I |
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| 43 | 43 | | NCREASE INASSISTANCE.—Section 508(e)(8) of 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(e)(8)) is 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | amended— 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (1) by striking ‘‘Notwithstanding’’ and insert-18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ing the following: 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 49 | 49 | | N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding’’; 20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (2) by striking ‘‘is 10 percentage points greater 21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | than’’ and inserting ‘‘is the number of percentage 22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | points specified in subparagraph (B) greater than’’; 23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | and 24 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (3) by adding at the end the following: 25 |
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| 58 | 58 | | ‘‘(B) PERCENTAGE POINTS ADJUST -1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | MENTS.—For purposes of subparagraph (A), 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | the percentage points specified in this subpara-3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | graph are as follows: 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | ‘‘(i) For each of the first and second 5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | reinsurance years that a beginning farmer 6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | or rancher or veteran farmer or rancher 7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | participates as a beginning farmer or 8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | rancher or veteran farmer or rancher in 9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | the applicable policy or plan of insurance, 10 |
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| 68 | 68 | | 15 percentage points, respectively. 11 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ‘‘(ii) For the third reinsurance year 12 |
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| 70 | 70 | | that a beginning farmer or rancher or vet-13 |
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| 71 | 71 | | eran farmer or rancher participates as a 14 |
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| 72 | 72 | | beginning farmer or rancher or veteran 15 |
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| 73 | 73 | | farmer or rancher in the applicable policy 16 |
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| 74 | 74 | | or plan of insurance, 13 percentage points, 17 |
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| 75 | 75 | | respectively. 18 |
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| 76 | 76 | | ‘‘(iii) For the fourth reinsurance year 19 |
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| 77 | 77 | | that a beginning farmer or rancher or vet-20 |
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| 78 | 78 | | eran farmer or rancher participates as a 21 |
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| 79 | 79 | | beginning farmer or rancher or veteran 22 |
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| 80 | 80 | | farmer or rancher in the applicable policy 23 |
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| 81 | 81 | | or plan of insurance, 11 percentage points, 24 |
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| 82 | 82 | | respectively. 25 |
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| 86 | 86 | | ‘‘(iv) For each of the fifth through 1 |
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| 87 | 87 | | tenth reinsurance years that a beginning 2 |
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| 88 | 88 | | farmer or rancher or veteran farmer or 3 |
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| 89 | 89 | | rancher participates as a beginning farmer 4 |
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| 90 | 90 | | or rancher or veteran farmer or rancher in 5 |
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| 91 | 91 | | the applicable policy or plan of insurance, 6 |
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| 92 | 92 | | 10 percentage points, respectively.’’. 7 |
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| 93 | 93 | | (d) C |
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| 94 | 94 | | ONFORMINGAMENDMENT.—Section 522(c)(7) 8 |
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| 95 | 95 | | of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1522(c)(7)) 9 |
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| 96 | 96 | | is amended by striking subparagraph (F). 10 |
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