Official Summaries

Grape Research And Protection Expansion Act or the GRAPE Act

This bill requires the federal crop insurance program (FCIP) to provide for the research and development of a policy to insure table, wine, and juice grapes against losses due to a freeze event. (Under current law, the term policy means an insurance policy, plan of insurance, provision of a policy or plan of insurance, and related materials.) The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, the agency that finances FCIP operations, must make any resulting policy available that meets specified FCIP requirements.

The FCIP must also submit a report to Congress on the research and any resulting policy.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 292 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 292

  To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to require the Federal Crop 
Insurance Corporation to carry out research and development regarding a 
policy to insure table, wine, and juice grapes against losses due to a 
                 freeze event, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 9, 2025

Mr. Langworthy introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to require the Federal Crop 
Insurance Corporation to carry out research and development regarding a 
policy to insure table, wine, and juice grapes against losses due to a 
                 freeze event, 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 ``Grape Research And Protection 
Expansion Act'' or the ``GRAPE Act''.

SEC. 2. POLICY TO INSURE TABLE, WINE, AND JUICE GRAPES AGAINST LOSSES 
              DUE TO A FREEZE EVENT.

    Section 522(c) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1522(c)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(20) Table, wine, and juice grapes.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Not later than 1 year after the 
                date of the enactment of this paragraph, the 
                Corporation shall carry out research and development, 
                or offer to enter into 1 or more contracts with 1 or 
                more qualified persons to carry out research and 
                development, regarding a policy to insure table, wine, 
                and juice grapes against losses due to a freeze event.
                    ``(B) Availability of policy.--Notwithstanding the 
                last sentence of section 508(a)(1), and section 
                508(a)(2), not later than 18 months after the date of 
                the enactment of this paragraph, the Corporation shall 
                make available a policy described in subparagraph (A) 
                if the requirements of section 508(h) are met.
                    ``(C) Report.--Not later than 2 years after the 
                date of enactment of this paragraph, the Corporation 
                shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations and 
                Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the 
                Committees on Appropriations and Agriculture, 
                Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report that 
                includes--
                            ``(i) the results of the research conducted 
                        under subparagraph (A); and
                            ``(ii) a description of the policies made 
                        available under this paragraph.''.
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