Farm Rescue Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 5473 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 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. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 18, 2025 Ms. Letlow introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture _______________________________________________________________________ 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