Crop Insurance for Future Farmers Act of 2023
United States118th CongressS-2458Senate
Updated: Jul 25, 2023
Summary
Crop Insurance for Future Farmers Act of 2023 This bill amends the federal crop insurance program (FCIP) to increase the premium assistance rate for beginning and veteran farmers or ranchers. Specifically, the bill amends the amount of percentage points that are added to the premium assistance rate for beginning and veteran farmers or ranchers for an applicable insurance policy or plan (currently 10 percentage points) to provide 15 percentage points in each of the 1st and 2nd reinsurance years, 13 percentage points in the 3rd year, 11 percentage points in the 4th year, and 10 percentage points in each of the 5th through the 10th reinsurance years. The bill also amends the FCIP definition of beginning farmer or rancher to include a farmer or rancher who has not actively operated and managed a farm or ranch for more than 10 crop years (currently more than 5 crop years).
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Timeline
Latest companion bill action
HR-3904: Crop Insurance for Future Farmers ActReferred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Senate
Introduced in Senate
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