I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1932 
To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to restore integrity to and 
strengthen payment limitation rules for commodity payments and benefits. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 9, 2013 
Mr. FORTENBERRY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to restore integrity 
to and strengthen payment limitation rules for com-
modity payments and benefits. 
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 Program Integ-
rity Act of 2013’’. 
SEC. 2. PAYMENT LIMITATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1001 of the Food Security 
Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (3) 
and inserting the following: 
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‘‘(3) LEGAL ENTITY.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘legal entity’ 
means— 
‘‘(i) an organization that (subject to 
the requirements of this section and sec-
tion 1001A) is eligible to receive a pay-
ment under a provision of law referred to 
in subsection (b), (c), or (d); 
‘‘(ii) a corporation, joint stock com-
pany, association, limited partnership, lim-
ited liability company, limited liability 
partnership, charitable organization, es-
tate, irrevocable trust, grantor of a rev-
ocable trust, or other similar entity (as de-
termined by the Secretary); and 
‘‘(iii) an organization that is partici-
pating in a farming operation as a partner 
in a general partnership or as a participant 
in a joint venture. 
‘‘(B) EXCLUSION.—The term ‘legal entity’ 
does not include a general partnership or joint 
venture.’’; 
(2) by striking subsections (b) through (d) and 
inserting the following: 
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‘‘(b) LIMITATION ON PAYMENTS FOR COVERED COM-
MODITIES AND PEANUTS.—The total amount of payments 
received, directly or indirectly, by a person or legal entity 
for any crop year for 1 or more covered commodities and 
peanuts under title I of the Food, Conservation, and En-
ergy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8701 et seq.) (or a successor 
provision) may not exceed $125,000, of which— 
‘‘(1) not more than $75,000 may consist of 
marketing loan gains and loan deficiency payments 
under subtitle B or C of title I of the Food, Con-
servation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8731 
et seq.) (or a successor provision); and 
‘‘(2) not more than $50,000 may consist of any 
other payments made for covered commodities and 
peanuts under title I of the Food, Conservation, and 
Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8702 et seq.) (or a 
successor provision). 
‘‘(c) SPOUSAL EQUITY.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding subsection 
(b), except as provided in paragraph (2), if a person 
and the spouse of the person are covered by para-
graph (2) and receive, directly or indirectly, any pay-
ment or gain covered by this section, the total 
amount of payments or gains (as applicable) covered 
by this section that the person and spouse may 
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jointly receive during any crop year may not exceed 
an amount equal to twice the applicable dollar 
amounts specified in subsection (b). 
‘‘(2) EXCEPTIONS.— 
‘‘(A) SEPARATE FARMING OPERATIONS.— 
In the case of a married couple in which each 
spouse, before the marriage, was separately en-
gaged in an unrelated farming operation, each 
spouse shall be treated as a separate person 
with respect to a farming operation brought 
into the marriage by a spouse, subject to the 
condition that the farming operation shall re-
main a separate farming operation, as deter-
mined by the Secretary. 
‘‘(B) ELECTION
TO
RECEIVE
SEPARATE 
PAYMENTS.—A married couple may elect to re-
ceive payments separately in the name of each 
spouse if the total amount of payments and 
benefits described in subsection (b) that the 
married couple receives, directly or indirectly, 
does not exceed an amount equal to twice the 
applicable dollar amounts specified in those 
subsections.’’; 
(3) in paragraph (3)(B) of subsection (f), by 
adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(iii) IRREVOCABLE TRUSTS.—In pro-
mulgating regulations to define the term 
‘legal entity’ as the term applies to irrev-
ocable trusts, the Secretary shall ensure 
that irrevocable trusts are legitimate enti-
ties that have not been created for the pur-
pose of avoiding a payment limitation.’’; 
and 
(4) in subsection (h), in the second sentence, by 
striking ‘‘or other entity’’ and inserting ‘‘or legal en-
tity’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) Section 1001 of the Food Security Act of 
1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308) is amended— 
(A) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘sub-
sections (b) and (c)’’ each place it appears in 
paragraphs (1) and (3)(B) and inserting ‘‘sub-
section (b)’’; 
(B) in subsection (f)— 
(i) in paragraph (2), by striking 
‘‘Subsections (b) and (c)’’ and inserting 
‘‘Subsection (b)’’; 
(ii) in paragraph (4)(B), by striking 
‘‘subsection (b) or (c)’’ and inserting ‘‘sub-
section (b)’’; 
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