PASTURE Act

Bill: 116-s-3893
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2020-06-04
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution

Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Farmland

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Land use and conservation
Latest action: action_date: 2020-06-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S2735-2736)

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-06-04
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Pandemic Authority Suitable To Utilize Reserve Easements Act or the PASTURE Act</b></p> <p>This bill provides authority for the Department of Agriculture during a pandemic to permit activities such as emergency haying and grazing on land that is subject to a contract under the Conservation Reserve Program.</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3893 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 4, 2020 Mr. Thune (for himself and Ms. Smith ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry A BILL To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to allow for emergency use of certain land during a pandemic, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Pandemic Authority Suitable To Utilize Reserve Easements Act or the PASTURE Act . 2. Emergency use of land enrolled in the conservation reserve program during a pandemic Section 1233(b)(1)(B)(i)(I) of the Food Security Act of 1985 ( 16 U.S.C. 3833(b)(1)(B)(i)(I) ) is amended— (1) in the matter preceding item (aa), by striking or other emergency, and inserting or other emergency (including a pandemic), ; and (2) in item (cc), by inserting or pandemic after disaster event .