Title: Agriculture Conservation Stamp Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Agriculture Conservation Stamp Act
This bill requires the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to issue for a four-year period a semipostal to benefit certain Department of Agriculture (USDA) conservation programs. (A semipostal is a postage stamp that is issued and sold by the USPS at a premium, in order to help provide funding for a cause that the USPS considers to be in the national public interest and appropriate.)
USDA is the sole agency to which the USPS may transfer funds received from the sale of the semipostal. USDA must use the transferred funds exclusively for programs authorized under title XII (Conservation) of the Food Security Act of 1985.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 581 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 581

 To provide for the issuance of a semipostal to support Department of 
       Agriculture conservation programs, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 13, 2017

Mr. Young of Iowa introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
 the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to 
     the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the issuance of a semipostal to support Department of 
       Agriculture conservation programs, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Agriculture Conservation Stamp 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE CONSERVATION PROGRAMS SEMIPOSTAL.

    (a) In General.--The United States Postal Service shall, for a 4-
year period beginning no later than 12 months after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, issue a semipostal to benefit certain 
conservation programs authorized by the Department of Agriculture.
    (b) Requirements and Authorities.--The issuance of such semipostal 
and the disposition of the amounts becoming available from the issuance 
of such semipostal shall be governed by section 416 of title 39, United 
States Code, except that the Department of Agriculture shall be the 
sole agency to which any amounts becoming available from the sale of 
such semipostal may be transferred under section 416(d)(1) of such 
title. The Department shall use the amounts so transferred exclusively 
for programs authorized under title XII of the Food Security Act of 
1985 (16 U.S.C. 3801 et seq.).
    (c) Definition of Semipostal.--In this section, the term 
``semipostal'' has the meaning given such term by section 416(a)(1) of 
title 39, United States Code.
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