Agriculture Conservation Stamp Act

Bill: 115-hr-581
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Young, David [R-IA-3]
Introduced: 2017-01-13
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution

Department of Agriculture

Executive agency funding and structure

Postal service
Latest action: action_date: 2017-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-01-13
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Agriculture Conservation Stamp Act </b></p> <p>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.) </p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 581 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 A BILL To provide for the issuance of a semipostal to support Department of Agriculture conservation programs, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Agriculture Conservation Stamp Act . 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.