GRAIN for America Act

Bill: 118-hr-3779
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Tiffany, Thomas P. [R-WI-7]
Introduced: 2023-05-31
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution

Farmland
Latest action: action_date: 2023-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-05-31
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Guaranteeing Robust Agricultural Independence and Nutrition for America Act or the</b> <b>GRAIN for America Act </b></p> <p>This bill establishes a one-year moratorium on the enrollment of land in the Conservation Reserve Program, with a specified exception for land that is already subject to a contract under the program. It also prohibits the Department of Agriculture from enrolling prime farmland in the program.</p> <p>Additionally, the bill allows a participant who has entered into a contract under the program to terminate the contract at any time during the one-year period preceding the date on which the contact would expire.</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3779 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 31, 2023 Mr. Tiffany introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To establish a 1-year moratorium on the enrollment of land in the conservation reserve program under the Food Security Act of 1985 and to prohibit the enrollment of prime farmland in such program, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Guaranteeing Robust Agricultural Independence and Nutrition for America Act or the GRAIN for America Act . 2. Enrollment moratorium (a) In general Notwithstanding subchapter B of chapter 1 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 ( 16 U.S.C. 3831 et seq. ), the Secretary of Agriculture may not enroll land in the conservation reserve program established under that subchapter during the 1-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act. (b) Exception Subsection (a) does not apply to land that, on the date of the enactment of this Act, is subject to a contract entered into under the conservation reserve program described in such subsection. 3. Prime farmland Section 1231 of the Food Security Act of 1985 ( 16 U.S.C. 3831 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (j) Prime farmland ineligible (1) In general Notwithstanding subsection (b), the Secretary may not enroll prime farmland in the program established under this subchapter. (2) Prime farmland defined In this subsection, the term prime farmland means farmland described in section 1540(c)(1)(A) of the Farmland Protection Policy Act ( 7 U.S.C. 4201(c)(1)(A) ). . 4. Early termination Section 1235(e)(1)(A) of the Food Security Act of 1985 ( 16 U.S.C. 3835(e)(1)(A) ) is amended by— (1) striking During fiscal year 2015, the and inserting The ; and (2) striking any time if the contract has been in effect for at least 5 years and inserting any time during the 1-year period preceding the date on which the contract would otherwise expire .