TEMP Act
Sponsored By: Senator Ashley Moody
Introduced
Summary
Would direct the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to research and build a nationwide, index-based insurance policy that protects certain crops from frost and cold weather. The R&D would test index-based tools for low-frequency catastrophic cold events and aim to create a policy that pays for either production loss or revenue loss.
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- Specialty crop farmers would get a pathway to a federal index insurance option for frost and cold damage, covering crops like tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, citrus, peaches, blueberries, sugarcane, melons and others.
- The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation would conduct or contract the research and development and evaluate index approaches. It must report results and recommendations to the House and Senate Agriculture committees within 1 year.
- Insurers and farm risk managers would gain a federally developed index framework intended to be available nationwide, which could change how frost risk is measured and insured.
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New frost insurance research for farmers
This bill would require the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) to do research or hire contractors. The goal would be a national, index-based crop insurance policy for losses from frost or cold weather. The R&D would test index-based tools for low-frequency, catastrophic cold events. The policy would have to cover at least production loss or revenue loss. Listed crops include tomatoes, peppers, sugarcane, strawberries, melons, citrus, peaches, and blueberries. FCIC would report results and recommendations to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees within 1 year. If enacted, it would take effect on enactment. This would not itself create payments or an insurance product for farmers.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Ashley Moody
FL • R
Cosponsors
Jon Ossoff
GA • D
Sponsored 3/11/2026
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