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Fair Access to Agriculture Disaster Programs Act

To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to establish an exception to certain payment limitations in the case of person or legal entity that derives income from agriculture, and for other purposes.

Introduced Mar 14, 2025

Latest action (Apr 4, 2025) Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit.

Referred to
Agriculture Committee
Policy area
Agriculture and Food

Summary
  • Establishes an exception to payment limitations for persons or legal entities that derive 75 percent or more of their average adjusted gross income from agricultural activities.
  • Includes farming, ranching, silviculture, agri-tourism, direct-to-consumer agricultural marketing, and agricultural equipment sales as qualifying agricultural activities.
  • Applies the exception to crop insurance payments under the Agricultural Act of 2014 and disaster assistance payments under the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
13 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Jimmy Panetta’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $19,200
  • NFP $15,500
  • APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT $13,500
  • ROCKET CENTRAL $12,000
  • FOLKTALE WINERY $7,760

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Jimmy Panetta → · Outside spending →

Actions (3)
  1. Apr 4, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit. · house
  2. Mar 14, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. · house
  3. Mar 14, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 984 — Fair Access to Agriculture Disaster Programs Act · Introduced Mar 12, 2025 · Cong. 119 84%
  • S 1494 — Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program Enhancement Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%
  • HR 622 — To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to increase funding for the conservation stewardship program, and for other purposes. · Introduced Feb 28, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%
  • HR 1565 — Voluntary Public Access Improvement Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 28, 2025 · Cong. 119 73%
  • HR 3457 — To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 with respect to the feral swine eradication and control program, and for other purposes. · Introduced May 15, 2025 · Cong. 119 73%
  • HR 773 — To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to repeal certain provisions relating to the acceptance and use of contributions for public-private partnerships, and for other purposes. · Introduced Feb 28, 2025 · Cong. 119 73%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Mar 14, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 14, 2025

Mr. Panetta (for himself, Mrs. Cammack, Ms. Lofgren, and Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

A BILL

To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to establish an exception to certain payment limitations in the case of person or legal entity that derives income from agriculture, and for other purposes.

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 “Fair Access to Agriculture Disaster Programs Act”.

SEC. 2. EXCEPTION FOR INCOME DERIVED FROM AGRICULTURE.

Section 1001D(b) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308- 3a(b)) is amended—

(1) in paragraph (1), by striking “paragraph (3)” and inserting “paragraphs (3) and (4)”; and

(2) by adding at the end the following:

“(4) Exception.—

“(A) In general.—In the case of an excepted payment or benefit, the limitation established by paragraph (1) shall not apply to a person or legal entity during a crop, fiscal, or program year, as appropriate, if greater than or equal to 75 percent of the average adjusted gross income of the person or legal entity is derived from farming, ranching, or silviculture activities (including agri-tourism, direct-to-consumer marketing of agricultural products, the sale of agricultural equipment owned by such person or entity, and other agricultural related activities, as determined by the Secretary).

“(B) Excepted payment or benefit.— For purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘excepted payment or benefit’ means—

“(i) a payment or benefit under subtitle E of title I of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9081 et seq.); and

“(ii) a payment or benefit under section 196 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7333).”. <all>

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