Agriculture Resilience Act

Bill: 116-hr-5861
Sponsor: Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2020-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural education
Agricultural insurance
Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural practices and innovations
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Agricultural research
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Department of Agriculture
Ecology
Education programs funding
Electric power generation and transmission
Elementary and secondary education
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Executive agency funding and structure
Farmland
Food assistance and relief
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Forests, forestry, trees
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Horticulture and plants
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Land use and conservation
Livestock
Meat
Medical research
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Nutrition and diet
Public contracts and procurement
Research administration and funding
Rural conditions and development
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Solid waste and recycling
State and local government operations
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-12
text: 

Agriculture Resilience Act

 
This bill addresses national greenhouse gas emission reduction efforts in the U.S. agriculture sector, including a national goal to achieve net-zero emissions by the year 2040. 
 
Among other things, the bill
 
 
expands the purposes of federally supported agricultural research, extension, and education to include accelerating the ability of agriculture and the food system of the United States to first achieve net zero carbon emissions and then go further to be carbon positive by removing additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere;
 
requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a national network of regional hubs for risk adaptation and mitigation to climate change;
 
creates a soil health grant program for state and tribal governments;
 
revises the agricultural conservation easement program to require owners that receive cost-share assistance to have a conservation plan in place that addresses applicable resource concerns for the land subject to the easement, including soil health and greenhouse gas emissions reduction;
 
establishes an alternative manure management program to support non-digester dairy and livestock methane management strategies to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to maximize environmental benefits;
 
directs USDA to study dual-use renewable energy systems, including an assessment on the compatibility of different species of livestock and crop types with dual-use renewable energy system designs; and
 
provides competitive grants and technical assistance for local educational agencies to implement food waste measurement and reporting, prevention, education, and reduction projects. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, and House Administration, 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.
action_date: 2020-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, and House Administration, 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.
action_date: 2020-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, and House Administration, 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.
action_date: 2020-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, and House Administration, 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.
action_date: 2020-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, and House Administration, 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.
action_date: 2020-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, and House Administration, 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.
action_date: 2020-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-12
text: Introduced in House