HR 7464 119th Congress House Agriculture and Food

TEMP Act

Introduced: February 26, 2026 Introduced by: Franklin, Scott Republican · Florida See on congress.gov

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Mar 20, 2026

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

Feb 10, 2026

Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

Feb 10, 2026

Introduced in House

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Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Temperature Event Mitigation Policy Act or the TEMP Act

This bill directs the federal crop insurance program to provide for research and development regarding a temperature-based index policy to insure crops (including tomatoes, peppers, sugarcane, strawberries, melons, citrus, peaches, and blueberries) on a nationally-available basis against losses due to a frost or cold weather event.

The research and development must (1) evaluate the effectiveness of risk management tools with respect to low frequency and catastrophic loss weather events, and (2) result in a policy that provides protection for production loss or revenue loss.

The term policy means an insurance policy, plan of insurance, provision of a policy or plan of insurance, and related materials. Under an index policy, claim payments are generally triggered based on a predetermined index that is entirely independent of the individual farm operation (e.g., temperature level). Under such a policy, the payments are automatically triggered when the index reaches a certain level rather than when an insured farmer files a claim.

What's happening now March 20, 2026

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

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