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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5710 
To suspend certain payment limitations relating to agricultural risk coverage 
and price loss coverage for crop year 2025 and to make advance partial 
payments under such coverages for such crop year. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 8, 2025 
Mr. CRAWFORD (for himself and Ms. LETLOW) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To suspend certain payment limitations relating to agricul-
tural risk coverage and price loss coverage for crop year 
2025 and to make advance partial payments under such 
coverages for such crop year. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Bridge the Gap for 
Rural Communities Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. SUSPENSION OF PAYMENT LIMITATIONS FOR CROP 
YEAR 2025. 
Section 1001(f) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 
U.S.C. 1308(f)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(10) SUSPENSION OF PAYMENT LIMITATIONS 
FOR CROP YEAR 2025.—Subsections (b) and (c) shall 
not apply to a person or legal entity for crop year 
2025.’’. 
SEC. 3. AVAILABILITY OF ADVANCE PARTIAL PAYMENTS 
FOR CROP YEAR 2025. 
Section 1115 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 
U.S.C. 9015) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(j) AVAILABILITY OF ADVANCE PARTIAL PAYMENTS 
FOR CROP YEAR 2025.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than December 
31, 2025, the Secretary shall provide to producers 
on a farm that make an election under paragraph 
(2) a partial payment with respect to each payment 
to such producer for the payment acres for each cov-
ered commodity on the farm under subsection (i). 
‘‘(2) OPTION
TO
RECEIVE
PARTIAL
PAY-
MENTS.—Not later than December 1, 2025, a pro-
ducer may opt to receive partial payments under this 
subsection by notifying the Administrator of the 
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Farm Service Agency in such manner as the Admin-
istrator determines appropriate. 
‘‘(3) 
AMOUNT.—Notwithstanding 
subsection 
(a), a partial payment under this subsection shall be 
equal to 50 percent of the projected payment for the 
covered commodity for the 2025 crop year under 
subsection (i), as determined by the Secretary. 
‘‘(4) DETERMINATION OF PROJECTED PRICE.— 
For purposes of determining the amount of the pro-
jected payment under paragraph (3), the Secretary 
shall use— 
‘‘(A) the projected average farm price for 
the applicable eligible commodity for the 2025– 
2026 marketing year contained in the most re-
cent World Agricultural Supply and Demand 
Estimates published before the date of enact-
ment of this Act by the World Agricultural Out-
look Board; or 
‘‘(B) if such projected average farm price 
is not available with respect to a covered com-
modity, a comparable projected price per acre 
for such covered commodity, as determined by 
the Secretary. 
‘‘(k) SUBSEQUENT
PAYMENT
FOR
CROP
YEAR 
2025.— 
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‘‘(l) CLARIFICATION RELATING TO ASSIGNMENT OF 
PARTIAL
AND SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS.—A payment 
made under subsections (j) and (k) may be assigned in 
accordance with part 1404 of title 7, Code of Federal Reg-
ulations.’’. 
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