Title: GRAIN for America Act
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Guaranteeing Robust Agricultural Independence and Nutrition for America Act or the GRAIN for America Act
This bill establishes a one-year moratorium on the enrollment of land in the Conservation Reserve Program, with a specified exception for land that is already subject to a contract under the program. It also prohibits the Department of Agriculture from enrolling prime farmland in the program.
Additionally, the bill allows a participant who has entered into a contract under the program to terminate the contract at any time during the one-year period preceding the date on which the contact would expire.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8592 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8592

   To establish a 1-year moratorium on the enrollment of land in the 
conservation reserve program under the Food Security Act of 1985 and to 
  prohibit the enrollment of prime farmland in such program, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 2022

 Mr. Tiffany introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
   To establish a 1-year moratorium on the enrollment of land in the 
conservation reserve program under the Food Security Act of 1985 and to 
  prohibit the enrollment of prime farmland in such program, 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 ``Guaranteeing Robust Agricultural 
Independence and Nutrition for America Act'' or the ``GRAIN for America 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ENROLLMENT MORATORIUM.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding subchapter B of chapter 1 of 
subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
3831 et seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture may not enroll land in the 
conservation reserve program established under that subchapter during 
the 1-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Exception.--Subsection (a) does not apply to land that, on the 
date of the enactment of this Act, is subject to a contract entered 
into under the conservation reserve program described in such 
subsection.

SEC. 3. PRIME FARMLAND.

    Section 1231 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(j) Prime Farmland Ineligible.--
            ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding subsection (b), the 
        Secretary may not enroll prime farmland in the program 
        established under this subchapter.
            ``(2) Prime farmland defined.--In this subsection, the term 
        `prime farmland' means farmland described in section 
        1540(c)(1)(A) of the Farmland Protection Policy Act (7 U.S.C. 
        4201(c)(1)(A)).''.

SEC. 4. EARLY TERMINATION.

    Section 1235(e)(1)(A) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
3835(e)(1)(A)) is amended by--
            (1) striking ``During fiscal year 2015, the'' and inserting 
        ``The''; and
            (2) striking ``any time if the contract has been in effect 
        for at least 5 years'' and inserting ``any time during the 1-
        year period preceding the date on which the contract would 
        otherwise expire''.
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