[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3904 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3904

   To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to promote crop insurance 
  support for beginning farmers and ranchers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 7, 2023

Mr. Feenstra (for himself and Ms. Craig) introduced the following bill; 
           which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to promote crop insurance 
  support for beginning farmers and ranchers, 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 ``Crop Insurance for Future Farmers 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CROP INSURANCE SUPPORT FOR BEGINNING FARMERS AND RANCHERS.

    (a) Definition of Beginning Farmer or Rancher.--Section 502(b)(3) 
of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1502(b)(3)) is 
amended by striking ``5 crop years'' and inserting ``10 crop years''.
    (b) Increase in Assistance.--Section 508(e)(8) of the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1508(e)(8)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Notwithstanding'' and inserting the 
        following:
                    ``(A) In general.--Notwithstanding'';
            (2) by striking ``is 10 percentage points greater than'' 
        and inserting ``is the amount of percentage points specified in 
        subparagraph (B) greater than''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) Percentage points adjustments.--For purposes 
                of subparagraph (A), the percentage points specified in 
                this subparagraph are as follows:
                            ``(i) For each of the first and second 
                        reinsurance years that a beginning farmer or 
                        rancher participates as a beginning farmer or 
                        rancher in the applicable policy or plan of 
                        insurance, 15 percentage points.
                            ``(ii) For the third reinsurance year that 
                        a beginning farmer or rancher participates as a 
                        beginning farmer or rancher in the applicable 
                        policy or plan of insurance, 13 percentage 
                        points.
                            ``(iii) For the fourth reinsurance year 
                        that a beginning farmer or rancher participates 
                        as a beginning farmer or rancher in the 
                        applicable policy or plan of insurance, 11 
                        percentage points.
                            ``(iv) For each of the fifth through tenth 
                        reinsurance years that a beginning farmer or 
                        rancher participates as a beginning farmer or 
                        rancher in the applicable policy or plan of 
                        insurance, 10 percentage points.''.
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