A bill to amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to increase support for conservation practices under the emergency conservation program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-s-2049
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2017-11-01
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution

Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Disaster relief and insurance

Farmland

Natural disasters

Water use and supply
Latest action: action_date: 2017-11-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-11-01
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to increase the maximum cost-share payment permitted under the Department of Agriculture Emergency Conservation Program (ECP). </p> <p>(The ECP provides emergency funding and technical assistance to farmers and ranchers to rehabilitate farmland damaged by natural disasters and to implement emergency water conservation measures in periods of severe drought.) </p> <p>The bill requires the maximum cost-share payment permitted under the ECP (currently $200,000 per person or legal entity, per natural disaster) to be equal to the maximum cost-share permitted under the Emergency Forest Restoration Program (currently $500,000 per person or legal entity, per disaster). </p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2049 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 1, 2017 Mr. Moran introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry A BILL To amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to increase support for conservation practices under the emergency conservation program, and for other purposes.

1. Payments for emergency conservation program (a) In general The Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 is amended by inserting after section 403 ( 16 U.S.C. 2203 ) the following: 403A. Payments for emergency conservation program The maximum cost-share payment under section 701.127 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations), shall be equal to the maximum amount under section 701.226(b) of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment of this section). . (b) Administration Until the date on which any regulations necessary to carry out section 403A of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (as added by subsection (a)) are fully implemented, the Secretary shall continue to carry out sections 401, 402, and 403 of that Act ( 16 U.S.C. 2201 , 2202, 2203) in the same manner as on the day before the date of enactment of this Act, except that payments made under those sections shall be consistent with section 403A of that Act (as added by subsection (a)).