Protecting Farmers from Natural Disasters Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-5280
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Nunn, Zachary [R-IA-3]
Introduced: 2025-09-10
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Latest action: action_date: 2025-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-09-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Protecting Farmers from Natural Disasters Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill amends the Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program to allow the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide for certain restoration activities.&nbsp;The EWP Program offers technical and financial assistance, including the purchase of floodplain easements, to safeguard people and property from floods, drought, fires, windstorms, and other natural disasters that impair a watershed.</p><p>Under the bill, USDA may&nbsp;allow restoration above pre-disaster conditions if that restoration is in the best interest of the long-term health and protection of the watershed.</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5280 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 10, 2025 Mr. Nunn of Iowa (for himself and Mr. Davis of North Carolina ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to enhance the long-term protection of watersheds, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting Farmers from Natural Disasters Act of 2025 . 2. Level of restoration Section 403 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 ( 16 U.S.C. 2203 ) is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following: (b) Level of restoration The Secretary may allow restoration above pre-disaster conditions if that restoration is in the best interest of the long-term health and protection of the watershed. .