# 119-s-4088: Agricultural Management Assistance Act of 2026

119-s-4088, Agricultural Management Assistance Act of 2026, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT] (D-CT); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-04).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-4088
- Congress: 119
- Title: Agricultural Management Assistance Act of 2026
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-03-12
- Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT] (D-CT)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Agriculture and Food
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-10-04

## Summary

**Expanding and funding crop insurance education and risk management.** This bill would broaden who can receive and provide federal education and technical help and add new climate, conservation, and market-support activities. - Farmers would get broader education and technical assistance, including language translation and new climate-resilience practices like soil health, sustainable water and irrigation, perennial crop establishment, agroforestry, integrated livestock, and aerobic composting. Individual producers would face a revised payment limit of $200,000 per 5-year period. - Approved crop insurance providers would be incorporated as recipients and partners in the education and risk management framework, including links to the whole-farm diversified risk management insurance option. - The program would explicitly support market-diversification work such as value-added processing, drying and storage for small grains, organic transition, and food safety certification. It also authorizes an annual appropriation of $20 million beginning in FY2026 to carry out these activities. *Would authorize $20 million annually starting in FY2026, increasing federal spending to support the expanded program.*

## Cosponsors (1)

- Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME] (I-ME), 2026-03-12T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Crop insurer and farmer education: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would expand the program to provide education and technical help to approved crop insurance providers, including Federal providers. It would explicitly include the whole-farm diversified risk management insurance plan. The bill would also require language translation services w…
- More farm diversification and conservation: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would expand what the program can fund to reduce farm financial risk and to build climate resilience. New eligible activities would include soil health practices, sustainable water and irrigation projects, perennial crops and agroforestry, livestock integration, and aerobic com…
- More funding for farm risk help: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would increase and authorize new program funding. It would replace a $10 million figure with $30 million and would authorize $20 million for fiscal year 2026 and each year after. The authorized $20 million would remain available until spent and would be in addition to amounts m…
- New $200K five-year payment cap: mixed, high. If enacted, the bill would limit total payments to a person under this subsection to $200,000 in any five-year period. Payments made for the listed activities that are not paid under this subsection would not count toward that $200,000 cap. These changes would take effect upon enactment.

## Related bills

- 119-s-3869: Healthy Families Act
- 119-s-5108: Right to IVF Act of 2026
- 119-s-1503: Equality Act
- 119-s-2295: Child Care for Working Families Act
- 119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act
- 119-s-1507: Agriculture Resilience Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-s-4088 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/4088)

## Related
- [119-s-3869: Healthy Families Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3869)
- [119-s-5108: Right to IVF Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5108)
- [119-s-1503: Equality Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1503)
- [119-s-2295: Child Care for Working Families Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2295)
- [119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1748)
- [119-s-1507: Agriculture Resilience Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1507)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4088 (as of 2026-10-04).