HR 3448
LIP Enhancement Act of 2025
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Bill overview
This bill, the LIP Enhancement Act of 2025, expands the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) to provide payments for losses of unborn livestock. It specifically covers livestock that were gestating on the date of the death of the parent livestock, starting January 1, 2025. The program already provides indemnity payments for livestock deaths due to events like adverse weather or disease, and this change broadens its coverage to include unborn animals.
Key provisions
- Expands LIP coverage to include losses of unborn livestock.
- Payments apply to livestock gestating on the date of the parent livestock’s death.
- Payments are available starting January 1, 2025.
- Payments are capped at 85% of the payment rate for the lowest weight class of livestock.
- Payment amounts vary based on the livestock type and number of birthed animals.
- The Secretary of Agriculture determines the payment rate.
- The Farm Service Agency Administrator oversees the program.
- Defines ‘unborn livestock death losses’ to include livestock gestating at the time of parent livestock death.
Who is affected
- Livestock producers
- Contract growers
- Farmers
- Agricultural businesses
- Livestock owners
Notable changes
- Previously, LIP only covered losses of born livestock.
- This bill introduces a new category of losses – unborn livestock death losses.
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R. 3448
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to establish additional payments for unborn livestock under the livestock indemnity payment program.
This Act may be cited as the Livestock Indemnity Program Enhancement Act of 2025 LIP Enhancement Act of 2025
or the
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Section 1501(b) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9081(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
In the case of unborn livestock death losses incurred on or after January 1, 2025, the Secretary shall make an additional payment to eligible producers on farms that have incurred such losses in excess of the normal mortality due to a condition specified in paragraph (1).
Additional payments under subparagraph (A) shall be made at a rate—
determined by the Secretary; and
less than or equal to 85 percent of the payment rate established with respect to the lowest weight class of the livestock, as determined by the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Farm Service Agency.
The amount of a payment to an eligible producer that has incurred unborn livestock death losses shall be equal to the payment rate determined under subparagraph (B) multiplied, in the case of livestock described in—
subparagraph (A), (B), or (F) of subsection (a)(4), by 1;
subparagraph (D) of such subsection, by 2;
subparagraph (E) of such subsection, by 12; and
In this paragraph, the term unborn livestock death losses means losses of any livestock described in subparagraph (A), (B), (D), (E), (F), or (G) of subsection (a)(4) that was gestating on the date of the death of the livestock.