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HR 8359 118th Congress House Agriculture and Food

GRAPE Act

Introduced: May 10, 2024 Introduced by: Langworthy, Nicholas A. Republican · New York See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Became law
Sep 3, 2024
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit.
May 10, 2024
Introduced in House
May 10, 2024
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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. (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.

What's happening now September 3, 2024

Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 8359: GRAPE Act. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-8359/
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"H.R. 8359: GRAPE Act." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-8359/.
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H.R. 8359, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-8359/.
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