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Economic Relief for Specialty Crops Act
To provide appropriations to the Secretary of Agriculture to make payments to producers of specialty crops.
Summary
This bill would appropriate $5 billion to the Department of Agriculture for fiscal year 2027 to make payments to specialty crop producers. The payments would be distributed through the Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers program or any substantially similar subsequent program. Specialty crops are defined in existing law as crops such as fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, and other non-commodity crops. The payments would be made according to terms and conditions specified in an existing departmental notice. The appropriation would remain available until expended.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA] (D-CA)
1 cosponsor
- Sen. Slotkin, Elissa [D-MI] (D-MI)
Actions (2)
- Jun 2, 2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. · senate
- Jun 2, 2026 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
June 2, 2026
Mr. Schiff introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
A BILL
To provide appropriations to the Secretary of Agriculture to make payments to producers of specialty crops.
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 “Economic Relief for Specialty Crops Act”.
SEC. 2. SPECIALTY CROP FARMERS ASSISTANCE.
(a) In General.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for fiscal year 2027, there is appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture $5,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, to make payments to producers of a specialty crop (as defined in section 3 of the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 (7 U.S.C. 1621 note; Public Law 108-
465)) under the Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers program of the Department of Agriculture (as announced on February 13, 2026; Release No.: 0031.26) or any substantially similar subsequent assistance program initiated by the Secretary of Agriculture under the authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714 et seq.).
(b) Terms and Conditions.—Payments under subsection (a) shall be made in a manner consistent with the terms and conditions specified in the notice entitled “Notice; Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops” (90 Fed. Reg. 1434 (January 8, 2025)). <all>
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