Title: Agricultural Management Assistance Modernization Act of 2022
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Agricultural Management Assistance Modernization Act of 2022
This bill revises the National Institute of Food and Agriculture's education and agricultural risk management assistance program. The bill expands the targets of the program to include crop insurance providers, allows nonprofit organizations to receive grants, and allows grantees to use financial assistance for soil health improvements, among other uses.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8706 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8706

 To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act with respect to education and 
          risk management assistance, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 12, 2022

 Mr. Kahele (for himself and Mr. Case) introduced the following bill; 
           which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act with respect to education and 
          risk management assistance, 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 ``Agricultural Management Assistance 
Modernization Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. EDUCATION AND RISK MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE.

    Section 524 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 
1524) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (2)(A)--
                            (i) by striking ``and colleges or 
                        universities'' and inserting ``colleges or 
                        universities, and nonprofit organizations'';
                            (ii) by inserting ``and approved crop 
                        insurance providers'' after ``educating 
                        agricultural producers'';
                            (iii) by inserting ``, including language 
                        translation services when appropriate,'' after 
                        ``technical assistance''; and
                            (iv) by inserting ``food safety,'' after 
                        ``production diversification,'';
                    (B) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) in the matter before subparagraph (A), 
                        by striking ``and outreach'' and inserting 
                        ``outreach, and language translation'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (E), by striking 
                        ``and'' at the end;
                            (iii) in subparagraph (F), by striking the 
                        period at the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                            (iv) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(G) Federal crop insurance providers, especially 
                with respect to the availability of whole farm 
                insurance plans under section 522(c)(7).''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (4), by striking ``paragraph 
                (3)(E)'' and inserting ``subparagraphs (E) and (G) of 
                paragraph (3)''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (C)--
                                    (I) in the matter before clause 
                                (i), by striking ``production or 
                                marketing diversification or'';
                                    (II) in clause (ii), by inserting 
                                ``areawide'' before ``integrated'';
                                    (III) in clause (iii), by striking 
                                ``or'' at the end;
                                    (IV) by striking clause (iv); and
                                    (V) by inserting after clause (iii) 
                                the following:
                            ``(iv) soil health improvements;
                            ``(v) perennial crop establishment, 
                        including establishment of agroforestry 
                        systems;
                            ``(vi) integration of livestock;
                            ``(vii) aerobic composting of crop and 
                        livestock waste; or
                            ``(viii) other conservation practices 
                        determined by the Secretary to reduce farms' 
                        risk of financial loss due to the regional 
                        impacts of climate change;'';
                            (ii) by redesignating subparagraphs (D) 
                        through (F) as subparagraphs (E) through (G), 
                        respectively;
                            (iii) by inserting after subparagraph (C) 
                        the following:
                    ``(D) mitigate financial risk through production or 
                marketing diversification, including--
                            ``(i) developing or implementing a plan to 
                        create marketing opportunities for the 
                        producer, including through value-added 
                        processing;
                            ``(ii) developing or implementing a plan to 
                        establish market infrastructure for the 
                        producer to support enterprise diversification, 
                        including drying and storage facilities for 
                        small grains from resource-conserving crop 
                        rotations;
                            ``(iii) organic farming; and
                            ``(iv) food safety certification;''; and
                            (iv) in subparagraph (G), as so 
                        redesignated, by striking ``through (E)'' and 
                        inserting ``through (F)'';
                    (B) in paragraph (3), by striking ``any year may 
                not exceed $50,000'' and insert ``any 5-year period may 
                not exceed $200,000'';
                    (C) in paragraph (4)--
                            (i) by amending subparagraph (B) to read as 
                        follows:
                    ``(B) Funding.--The Commodity Credit Corporation 
                shall make available to carry out this subsection not 
                less than $30,000,000 for each fiscal year.''; and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (C)--
                                    (I) in clause (ii), by striking 
                                ``provide'' and inserting ``carry out 
                                subparagraph (D), including 
                                providing''; and
                                    (II) in clause (iii), by striking 
                                ``subparagraph'' and inserting 
                                ``subparagraphs (E) and''; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Authorization of appropriations.--In addition to the 
        funds made available under paragraph (4)(B), there is 
        authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subsection 
        $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2023 and each fiscal year 
        thereafter, to remain available until expended.''.
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