Livestock producers win a seat on federal crop insurance board
S. 2396 — Farm Board Act of 2025 · Filed by Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill amends the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation's Board of Directors to require at least one member who actively engages in both livestock and crop production, effective May 1, 2027. Currently, the board must include at least one specialty crop producer; this bill keeps that requirement and adds a new mandate for a dual-commodity producer, expanding board representation to include livestock interests alongside traditional crop insurance.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is a structural change to the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation's Board of Directors, requiring a new category of member. It is a governance amendment, not a subsidy, deregulation, or appropriation.
What the text implies
- The bill does not specify how the new livestock-crop producer seat interacts with existing board seats—it is unclear whether this is an additional seat or a replacement, potentially affecting total board size and voting dynamics.
- No conflict-of-interest or recusal standards are specified for the new member, leaving open the possibility that a livestock-crop producer with direct financial stakes in FCIC policy could vote on matters affecting their own insurance rates.
- The May 1, 2027 effective date creates a gap during which the board will operate under the old composition, potentially delaying livestock-producer input into insurance policy for nearly two years after enactment.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Livestock-crop producers gain formal board representation and a voice in federal crop insurance policy that affects their operations, a democratic accountability improvement. However, the bill does not address whether this seat displaces other representation, whether the new member has conflicts of interest, or whether board composition changes actually improve insurance outcomes for ordinary farmers—the civic benefit is procedural (representation) rather than substantive (lower premiums, better
Named in the bill
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC), Federal Crop Insurance Act, 7 U.S.C. § 1505(a)(2)(G), livestock producers, specialty crop producers
Where it stands
- Jul 23, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jul 23, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. Those filings disclosed $40,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 7 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Tommy Tuberville, the sponsor, reported $-1,614 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Alabama Farmers Federation — $40,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jan 19, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (473 characters) on Jul 2, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jan 19, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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