# 119-s-1117: Quality Loss Adjustment Improvement for Farmers Act

119-s-1117, Quality Loss Adjustment Improvement for Farmers Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] (R-LA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-1117
- Congress: 119
- Title: Quality Loss Adjustment Improvement for Farmers Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-03-25
- Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] (R-LA)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Agriculture and Food
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**Quality loss adjustment procedures** would get regular reviews and new regional soybean discount rules to make crop-insurance payouts better match local market losses. The bill would direct the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) to hire outside experts, get regionally diverse stakeholder input, and update procedures based on those reviews. - Farmers: Would see insurance quality-loss rules reviewed on a schedule so payouts better reflect real-world quality discounts. This aims to make payments more accurate for affected crops. - Soybean growers in disaster or salvage markets: Would have state or regional discount factors applied when a declared disaster or salvage market occurs, so insurance values reflect local price penalties. - FCIC and program administrators: Would contract qualified reviewers, hold stakeholder engagement, and deliver a report to the House and Senate agriculture committees after each review, with reviews occurring every 5 years and each completed within 1 year.

## Provisions PRIA read

- Periodic QLA reviews and soybean discounts: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would require the crop insurance corporation to start professional reviews of its quality loss adjustment (QLA) procedures in calendar year 2025. Reviews would occur once every 5 years and each review must finish within 1 year. Each review would include regionally diverse indus…

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## Sources
- [119-s-1117 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1117)

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- [119-s-4952: Protecting American Taxpayers Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4952)
- [119-s-4378: Protecting American Taxpayers Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4378)
- [119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1748)
- [119-s-4065: STAND with Taiwan Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4065)
- [119-s-3492: Essential Caregivers Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3492)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1117 (as of 2025-12-21).