# 119-s-4661: Ensuring Disaster Recovery and Resilience for Specialty Crops Act

119-s-4661, Ensuring Disaster Recovery and Resilience for Specialty Crops Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA] (D-CA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-4661
- Congress: 119
- Title: Ensuring Disaster Recovery and Resilience for Specialty Crops Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-06-02
- Sponsor: Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA] (D-CA)
- Cosponsors: 2
- Policy area: Agriculture and Food
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-10-18

## Summary

**This bill would create a permanent federal program to provide direct emergency payments to specialty crop producers after adverse events, focusing on** **permanent disaster assistance for specialty crops**. - Specialty crop producers would be eligible for direct assistance calculated by applying a payment factor to a base amount tied to a producer's prior-year sales or an average of prior years. The Secretary of Agriculture would set the payment factor and award payments subject to available funds. - Payment limits would generally follow the per-person cap in the Food Security Act, with a carve-out for entities whose average gross income is at least 75 percent from farming, ranching, or silviculture. For those entities the general cap would not apply and the Secretary would set a maximum payment that cannot be less than $500,000. - The Secretary must consider three specific factors when awarding payments: the higher market value of specialty crops, their greater input costs, and the mix of legal entity types used by specialty-crop producers. The bill also folds the new Section 197 into existing payment limitation and notification rules under the Food Security Act.

## Cosponsors (2)

- Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA] (D-CA), 2026-06-02T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Slotkin, Elissa [D-MI] (D-MI), 2026-06-11T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Direct payments for specialty growers: mixed, high. This bill would require the Secretary of Agriculture to create a permanent program paying specialty-crop producers when an adverse event harms production, as the Secretary defines. You would be eligible if your specialty-crop production was impacted by an adverse event the Secretary determines. Pay…

## Related bills

- 119-s-5066: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026
- 119-s-4949: Water Resources Development Act of 2026
- 119-s-5283: Momnibus Act
- 119-s-3990: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026
- 119-s-2823: FAMILY Act
- 119-s-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act

## Sources
- [119-s-4661 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/4661)

## Related
- [119-s-5066: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5066)
- [119-s-4949: Water Resources Development Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4949)
- [119-s-5283: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5283)
- [119-s-3990: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3990)
- [119-s-2823: FAMILY Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2823)
- [119-s-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-51)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4661 (as of 2026-10-18).