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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Feb 14, 2025
Healthy Poultry Assistance and Indemnification Act of 2025
This bill expands the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) producer indemnity and compensation program to include compensation for all poultry growers and layers located in an APHIS-determined control area, which may include non-infected poultry.
Currently, APHIS provides indemnity and compensation to producers to remove animals classified as affected, suspect, or exposed to diseases of concern, including highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). An APHIS-determined control area consists of both an infected zone and a buffer zone. Under the bill, APHIS must compensate all owners of poultry growing or laying facilities for flocks of birds that the facility owner was prohibited from growing or laying due to the location of the facility within a control area. This may include facilities that are located in the buffer zones and have non-infected poultry.
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Further, the bill establishes a new compensation payment formula that requires payments to be based on the owner’s average income from the five most recent flocks. Under the bill, APHIS's compensation determination is final and not subject to judicial or administrative review (other than by the Secretary of Agriculture or a designee).
People & committees
Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-21] · D–CA
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-02-14 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
This bill would require compensation for poultry facility owners who are prohibited from raising flocks or keeping laying flocks because their facilities are within a designated control area. Payments would be based on income from their five most recent flocks and the number of flocks prohibited, with reductions for compensation from other sources and exceptions limiting eligibility.
Except as provided in paragraph (3), the Secretary shall compensate the owner of a poultry growing or laying facility for flocks of birds that the owner of such facility was prohibited from growing or laying due to the location of the facility within a control area.
Compensation paid under subparagraph (A) shall be in an amount that is equal to the product obtained by multiplying— (I) the average income from the 5 most recent flocks of birds that the poultry growing or laying facility grew or laid; and (II) the number of flocks of birds that the owner of the poultry growing or laying facility was prohibited from growing or laying during the period of time in which the control area was in effect.
Compensation paid any owner of a poultry growing or laying facility under this subsection shall not exceed the difference between— (I) the amount described in clause (i); and (II) any compensation received by the owner from a State or other source for the 1 or more flocks of birds that the owner was prohibited from growing or laying.
Section 1 would name the bill the Healthy Poultry Assistance and Indemnification Act of 2025.
This Act may be cited as the Healthy Poultry Assistance and Indemnification Act of 2025.
Section 2 would add the compensation provisions to the Animal Health Protection Act. It would also change the existing subsection (d) heading to specify compensation for destroyed animals.
Section 10407 of the Animal Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 8306) is amended— (1) in subsection (d), in the subsection heading, by inserting for destroyed animals after Compensation; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (e) Compensation for poultry growers and layers in control areas
Eligible control areas would be those determined by the Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Covered poultry would be domesticated birds bred primarily for eggs or meat, including the listed species when bred for that purpose, but excluding doves and pigeons.
The term control area means a Control Area determined by the Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
The term poultry means domesticated fowl that are bred for the primary purpose of producing eggs or meat, including, when so bred, chickens, turkeys, ostriches, emus, rheas, cassowaries, waterfowl, and game birds, but not including doves and pigeons.
The payment calculation would multiply average income from the facility's five most recent flocks by the number of flocks prohibited while the control area was in effect. Payment could not exceed that amount minus compensation received from a state or another source for those prohibited flocks.
Compensation paid under subparagraph (A) shall be in an amount that is equal to the product obtained by multiplying— (I) the average income from the 5 most recent flocks of birds that the poultry growing or laying facility grew or laid; and (II) the number of flocks of birds that the owner of the poultry growing or laying facility was prohibited from growing or laying during the period of time in which the control area was in effect.
Compensation paid any owner of a poultry growing or laying facility under this subsection shall not exceed the difference between— (I) the amount described in clause (i); and (II) any compensation received by the owner from a State or other source for the 1 or more flocks of birds that the owner was prohibited from growing or laying.
The Secretary's determination of the payment amount would be final. The bill would bar court review and review by other federal officials, except the Secretary or the Secretary's designee.
The determination by the Secretary of the amount to be paid under this subsection shall be final and not subject to judicial review or review by any officer or employee of the Federal Government other than the Secretary or the designee of the Secretary.
Compensation would have to be paid within 60 days after a facility owner submits a compensation request to the Secretary.
Compensation shall be paid under subparagraph (A) not later than 60 days after the date on which the owner of a poultry growing or laying facility submits a request to the Secretary for compensation.
Existing exceptions in subsection (d)(3) would also apply to the new compensation. The bill references those exceptions without reproducing them.
The exceptions described in subsection (d)(3) shall apply to this subsection.
An owner who received compensation under subsection (d) for a facility in the same control area during the same period would be barred from receiving the new compensation.
No payment shall be made by the Secretary under this subsection to an owner of a poultry growing or laying facility who has received compensation under subsection (d) for a facility in the same control area during the same period of time.
The supplied official-actions snapshot, updated September 19, 2026, records introduction and referral to the House Committee on Agriculture on February 14, 2025, followed by referral to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry on March 20, 2025.
Source snapshot updated 2026-09-19T23:39:06Z. 2025-03-20: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry. 2025-02-14: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. 2025-02-14: Introduced in House
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Reviewed version: Introduced in House · 2025-02-14. These findings describe provisions and who may benefit; they are not judgments of waste, corruption, or motive.
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