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113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5542 
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require the Secretary of Agriculture 
to extend the term of a marketing assistance loan and the deadline 
for repayment of a farm ownership, operating, or emergency loan when 
the purchaser of the agricultural commodity subject to the marketing 
assistance loan declared bankruptcy before paying the farmer for the 
commodity. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 
Mr. CRAWFORD (for himself, Mr. GRIFFIN of Arkansas, Mr. WOMACK, and 
Mr. COTTON) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require the Sec-
retary of Agriculture to extend the term of a marketing 
assistance loan and the deadline for repayment of a 
farm ownership, operating, or emergency loan when the 
purchaser of the agricultural commodity subject to the 
marketing assistance loan declared bankruptcy before 
paying the farmer for the commodity. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Farm Protection Act 
of 2014’’. 
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF MARKETING ASSISTANCE LOANS 
AND DEADLINE FOR REPAYMENT OF FARM 
OWNERSHIP, OPERATING, OR EMERGENCY 
LOANS IN CERTAIN CASES OF BANKRUPTCY. 
Section 1203(b) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 
U.S.C. 9033(b)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), the Secretary’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2) EXTENSION OF CERTAIN LOANS IN EVENT 
OF PURCHASER BANKRUPTCY.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—This paragraph ap-
plies whenever— 
‘‘(i) the producers on a farm have a 
marketing assistance loan under section 
1201 for a loan commodity; 
‘‘(ii) the producers have sold, trans-
ferred, or delivered the loan commodity 
subject to the loan to a purchaser; and 
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‘‘(iii) a case under any chapter of title 
11, United States Code (in this paragraph 
referred to as a ‘chapter 11 bankruptcy’), 
has been commenced in which the pur-
chaser is the debtor. 
‘‘(B) EXTENSION FOR NON-PAYMENT.—If 
a chapter 11 bankruptcy in which the purchaser 
of a loan commodity is the debtor, as described 
in subparagraph (A), is commenced before the 
purchaser pays the producers in full for the 
loan commodity, the Secretary shall extend, to 
a date that is not less than 180 days after the 
date on which the chapter 11 bankruptcy is 
closed or dismissed— 
‘‘(i) the term and any due date for 
any payment or obligation pursuant to the 
marketing assistance loan of the producers; 
and 
‘‘(ii) the due date for any payment or 
obligation pursuant to any ownership, op-
erating, or emergency loan made to the 
producers under the Consolidated Farm 
and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
1921 et seq.). 
‘‘(C) RELATED SUSPENSIONS.— 
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