{"bill":{"id":"119-s-3843","congress":119,"type":"S","number":3843,"title":"TEMP Act","originChamber":"Senate","introducedDate":"2026-02-11","sponsors":[{"bioguideId":"M001244","fullName":"Sen. Moody, Ashley [R-FL]","party":"R","state":"FL","district":null}],"cosponsorsCount":1,"latestAction":{"actionDate":"2026-02-11","text":"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry."},"policyArea":"Agriculture and Food","subjects":[],"actions":[{"date":"2026-02-11","text":"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.","type":"IntroReferral","chamber":"Senate","hasVote":false},{"date":"2026-02-11","text":"Introduced in Senate","type":"IntroReferral","chamber":"Library of Congress","hasVote":false}],"summary":"<p><strong>Temperature Event Mitigation Policy Act or the</strong> <strong>TEMP Act </strong></p><p>This bill directs the federal crop insurance program to provide for research and development regarding a temperature-based index policy to insure crops (including&nbsp;tomatoes, peppers, sugarcane, strawberries, melons, citrus, peaches, and blueberries) on a nationally-available basis against losses due to a frost or cold weather event.</p><p>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.&nbsp;</p><p>The term <em>policy</em> means an insurance policy, plan of insurance, provision of a policy or plan of insurance, and related materials.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;</p>","updateDate":"2026-04-03T14:30:38Z"},"markets":[],"stateBills":[],"meta":{"sources":["congress.gov"],"latencyMs":493,"ts":"2026-04-19T09:35:23.587Z"},"nextActions":{"inspect":[],"related":[{"description":"Search related legislation","method":"GET","url":"/api/public/query-gov?q=TEMP%20Act"}]}}