DEFINITION OF PERSON: ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES; RESTRICTIONS APPLICABLE TO CASH-RENT TENANTS.

SEC. 1303. DEFINITION OF PERSON: ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES; RESTRICTIONS APPLICABLE TO CASH-RENT TENANTS. Effective beginning with the 1989 crops: (a) In General.— Section 1001(5) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308(5)) is amended— (1) by inserting after the first sentence of subparagraph (A) the following new sentence: “Such regulations shall incorporate the provisions in subparagraphs (B) through (E) of this paragraph, paragraphs (6) and (7), and sections 1001A through 1001C”; (2) by striking out the second sentence of subparagraph (A) and inserting in lieu thereof the following new subparagraph: “(B) (i) For the purposes of the regulations issued under subparagraph (A), subject to clause (ii), the term ‘person’ means— “(I) an individual, including any individual participating in a farming operation as a partner in a general partnership, a participant in a joint venture, a grantor of a revocable trust, or a participant in a similar entity (as determined by the Secretary); “(II) a corporation, joint stock company, association, limited partnership, charitable organization, or other similar entity (as determined by the Secretary), including any such entity or organization participating in the farming operation as a partner in a general partnership, a participant in a joint venture, a grantor of a revocable trust, or as a participant in a similar entity (as determined by the Secretary); and “(III) a State, political subdivision, or agency thereof. “(ii) (I) Such regulations shall provide that the term ‘person’ does not include any cooperative association of producers that markets commodities for producers with respect to the commodities so marketed for producers. “(II) In defining the term ‘person’ as it will apply to irrevocable trusts and estates, the Secretary shall ensure that fair and equitable treatment is given to trusts and estates and the beneficiaries thereof. “(iii) Such regulations shall provide that, with respect to any married couple, the husband and wife shall be considered to be one person, except that any married couple consisting of spouses who, prior to their marriage, were separately engaged in unrelated farming operations, each spouse shall be treated as a separate person with respect to the farming operation brought into the marriage by such spouse so long as such operation remains as a separate farming operation, for the purposes of the application of the limitations under this section.”; (3) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C); and (4) by adding at the end thereof the following new subparagraphs: “(D) Any person that conducts a farming operation to produce a crop subject to limitations under this section as a tenant that rents the land for cash (or a crop share guaranteed as to the amount of the commodity to be paid in rent) and that makes a significant contribution of active personal management but not of personal labor shall be considered the same person as the landlord unless the tenant makes a significant contribution of equipment used in the farming operation. 101 STAT. 1330–17 “(E) The Secretary may not approve (for purposes of the application of the limitations under this section) any change in a farming operation that otherwise will increase the number of persons to which the limitations under this section are applied unless the Secretary determines that the change is bona fide and substantive. In the implementation of the preceding sentence, the addition of a family member to a farming operation under the criteria set out in section 1001A(b)(1)(B) shall be considered a bona fide and substantive change in the farming operation.”. (b) Lands Owned by States, Political Subdivisions, and Public Schools.— Paragraph (6) of section 1001 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308(6)) is amended to read as follows: “(6) The provisions of this section that limit payments to any person shall not be applicable to land owned by a public school district or land owned by a State that is used to maintain a public school.”.