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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5473 
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require the Secretary of Agriculture 
to make certain advance partial price loss coverage payments for crop 
year 2025. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 18, 2025 
Ms. LETLOW 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 make certain advance partial 
price loss coverage payments for crop year 2025. 
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 ‘‘Farm Rescue Act of 
2025’’. 
SEC. 2. AVAILABILITY OF ADVANCE PARTIAL PRICE LOSS 
COVERAGE PAYMENTS FOR CROP YEAR 2025. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1116(e) of the Agricul-
tural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9016(e)) is amended— 
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(1) by striking ‘‘If the Secretary’’ and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 
if the Secretary’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY OF ADVANCE PARTIAL PAY-
MENTS FOR CROP YEAR 2025.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 90 
days after the date of the enactment of this 
paragraph, if the Secretary determines, based 
on the best available data and projections of na-
tional average market prices, that price loss 
coverage payments for the 2025 crop year will 
be required to be provided under subsection (a) 
with respect to a covered commodity, the Sec-
retary shall— 
‘‘(i) give producers on a farm the op-
tion to receive partial payments of the 
price loss coverage payment to be made for 
that covered commodity for the 2025 crop 
year with respect to payment acres for the 
covered commodity on the farm; and 
‘‘(ii) to each producer that opts to re-
ceive such payments under clause (i), pro-
vide— 
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‘‘(I) a one-time partial payment 
in accordance with subparagraph (B); 
and 
‘‘(II) a subsequent payment in 
accordance with section 1115(j). 
‘‘(B) AMOUNT.—Notwithstanding section 
1115(a), a partial payment under subparagraph 
(A)(ii)(I) shall be in an amount that is not less 
than 40 percent and not greater than 50 per-
cent of the projected price loss coverage pay-
ment for the covered commodity for the 2025 
crop year, as determined by the Secretary. 
‘‘(C) RECOVERY
OF
ERRONEOUS
PAY-
MENT.—If the Secretary determines that a par-
tial payment made under subparagraph (A) was 
not required with respect to a covered com-
modity for the 2025 crop year the Secretary 
may recover the amount of the partial payment 
in such a manner as the Secretary determines 
appropriate.’’. 
(b) SUBSEQUENT
PAYMENT
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: 
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‘‘(j) SUBSEQUENT
PAYMENT
FOR
CROP
YEAR 
2025.—In the case of a producer on a farm that receives 
a partial payment under section 1116(e)(2)(A) for a cov-
ered commodity for the 2025 crop year with respect to 
payment acres for the covered commodity on the farm, the 
Secretary shall, as soon as practicable after the end of 
the applicable marketing year for the covered commodity, 
provide a subsequent payment to the producer in an 
amount equal to— 
‘‘(1) the payment amount for such payment 
acres for the covered commodity determined under 
subsection (i) for the 2025 crop year; minus 
‘‘(2) the amount provided for such payment 
acres for the covered commodity under section 
1116(e)(2)(B) for the 2025 crop year.’’. 
(c) RULEMAKING.—Not later than 60 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agri-
culture shall issue such rules as are necessary to carry 
out the amendments made by this section. 
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