119-s3058

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3058 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 3058

 To provide appropriations to the Secretary of Agriculture to provide 
 payments to agricultural producers, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 October 27, 2025

 Mr. Hawley introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
 referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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 A BILL

 To provide appropriations to the Secretary of Agriculture to provide 
 payments to agricultural producers, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Support Our Farmers and Ranchers Act 
of 2025''.

SEC. 2. PAYMENTS TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS.

    (a) 

=== Definitions. ===
-In this section:

    (1) Covered commodity.--The term ``covered commodity'' 
 means a covered commodity (as defined in 

section 1111 of the 
 Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9011)) produced for harvest, 
 haying, grazing, silage, or other similar purposes.

    (2) Eligible agricultural producer.--The term ``eligible 
 agricultural producer'' means a person that is a producer of, 
 and has an invested interest in input expenses for, a covered 
 commodity, a specialty crop, livestock, or poultry.

    (3) Livestock.--The term ``livestock'' means livestock (as 
 defined in 

section 780.120 of title 29, Code of Federal 
 Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment of this 
 Act)) produced for meat or milk.

    (4) Poultry.--The term ``poultry'' means chickens, turkeys, 
 ducks, geese, and other domestic fowl--
        (A) ordinarily raised or used on a farm; and
        (B) produced for meat or eggs.

    (5) Qualifying tariff proceeds.--The term ``qualifying 
 tariff proceeds'' means the revenues received in the general 
 fund of the Treasury that are attributable to duties, including 
 any supplemental duties, imposed after January 20, 2025.

    (6) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
 of Agriculture.

    (7) Specialty crop.--The term ``specialty crop'' means a 
 specialty crop (as defined in 

section 3 of the Specialty Crops 
 Competitiveness Act of 2004 (7 U.S.C. 1621 note; Public Law 
 108-465)) produced for food or medicinal purposes.

    (b) Payments.--Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary shall provide 1-time payments to eligible 
agricultural producers for necessary expenses related to losses of 
revenue and quality or production losses of covered commodities, 
specialty crops, livestock, or poultry.
            (c) Actively Engaged in Farming.--To be eligible for a payment 
under this section, an eligible agricultural producer shall be actively 
engaged in farming (within the meaning of 

section 1001A of the Food 
Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308-1)).
            (d) Administration.--The Secretary may--

    (1) establish terms and conditions of payments under this 
 section; and

    (2) implement this section in such manner as the Secretary 
 determines to be appropriate.

    (e) Appropriations.--There is authorized to be appropriated, and 
there is appropriated, out of any qualifying tariff proceeds in the 
Treasury that are not otherwise appropriated, $20,000,000,000 for 
fiscal year 2026 for the Secretary to provide payments under this 
section, to remain available until expended.
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