I 
119TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7462 
To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to direct the Secretary of Agri-
culture to use certain data sets when determining eligibility related 
to indemnity payments under the Hurricane Insurance Protection-Wind 
Index endorsement, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 10, 2026 
Mr. CARTER of Georgia (for himself, Mr. BISHOP, and Mr. ALLEN) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to direct the 
Secretary of Agriculture to use certain data sets when 
determining eligibility related to indemnity payments 
under the Hurricane Insurance Protection-Wind Index 
endorsement, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Farmers’ Assistance 
and Immediate Disaster Relief Act’’ or the ‘‘Farmers’ 
AID Relief Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. HURRICANE INSURANCE PROTECTION-WIND INDEX 
ENDORSEMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 508 of the Federal Crop 
Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508) is amended by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘(q) HURRICANE
INSURANCE
PROTECTION-WIND 
INDEX ENDORSEMENT.— 
‘‘(1) DETERMINATION
OF
PAYMENT
ELIGI-
BILITY.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Beginning with crop 
year 2027, in determining whether a county is 
eligible with respect to a hurricane weather 
event for an indemnity payment under HIP– 
WI, the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(i) use the IBTrACS data set; or 
‘‘(ii) subject to subparagraph (B), use 
the alternative data set compiled pursuant 
to paragraph (2). 
‘‘(B) CONDITION
FOR
USE
OF
ALTER-
NATIVE DATA SET.—For purposes of subpara-
graph (A)(ii), the Secretary may only use the 
alternative data set compiled pursuant to para-
graph (2) if— 
‘‘(i) the data set specified in subpara-
graph (A)(i) is incomplete, as determined 
by the Secretary; and 
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‘‘(ii) one of the following conditions is 
met: 
‘‘(I) A weather station operated 
by National Weather Service in the 
county subject to the determination of 
eligibility in subparagraph (A), or an 
adjacent county, was damaged. 
‘‘(II) Any other source of data 
for making such determination in 
such county or an adjacent county 
was damaged. 
‘‘(III) Any such station or other 
source provided incomplete data, as 
determined by the Secretary. 
‘‘(2) COMPILATION
OF
ALTERNATIVE
DATA 
SET.—For purposes of determining eligibility under 
paragraph (1)(A)(ii), the Secretary shall compile, 
and make available to the public on the website of 
the Department related to HIP–WI, an alternative 
data set for the hurricane weather event prompting 
such determination using data that— 
‘‘(A) is collected for a specified time period 
during such weather event, as determined by 
the Secretary; 
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‘‘(B) contains the same types of data con-
tained in the IBTrACS data set; and 
‘‘(C) is consistent with the form of such 
types of data, as determined by the Secretary. 
‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) 
HIP–WI.—The 
term 
‘HIP–WI’ 
means the Hurricane Insurance Protection- 
Wind Index endorsement established in 2020 by 
the Risk Management Agency of the Depart-
ment. 
‘‘(B) IBTRACS DATA
SET.—The term 
‘IBTrACS data set’ means the International 
Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship 
data set from the National Oceanic and Atmos-
pheric Administration, including the season, 
name, time, location in latitude and longitude, 
maximum sustained winds, hurricane category, 
and wind extents data associated with a hurri-
cane weather event. 
‘‘(C) ALTERNATIVE DATA SET.—The term 
‘alternative data set’ means data collected by a 
weather station that is— 
‘‘(i) operated by a land-grant college 
or university (as defined in section 1404 of 
the National Agricultural Research, Exten-
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sion, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 
U.S.C. 3103)); and 
‘‘(ii) certified, at the time data is col-
lected for purposes of paragraph (2), as 
compliant with standards issued by the 
National Weather Service, including the 
standards described in the directive issued 
on November 9, 2023, entitled ‘National 
Weather Service Instruction 10–1302’ (or 
successor directives).’’. 
(b) REGULATIONS.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agri-
culture shall— 
(1) issue such rules as may be necessary to im-
plement the amendment made by this section; and 
(2) revise any guidance relating to the Hurri-
cane Insurance Protection-Wind Index endorsement 
established in 2020 by the Risk Management Agency 
of the Department of Agriculture. 
Æ 
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