To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to increase funding for the conservation stewardship program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-hr-3580
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Kelly, Trent [R-MS-1]
Introduced: 2023-05-22
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution

Appropriations

Farmland

Wetlands
Latest action: action_date: 2023-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-05-22
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill increases funding for the Conservation Stewardship Program. This Department of Agriculture program provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers to maintain and improve existing conservation systems and to adopt additional conservation activities in a comprehensive manner on a producer's entire operation.</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3580 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 22, 2023 Mr. Kelly of Mississippi (for himself, Mr. Guest , Mr. Ezell , and Ms. Letlow ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to increase funding for the conservation stewardship program, and for other purposes.

1. Annual funding Section 1241(a)(3)(B) of the Food Security Act of 1985 ( 16 U.S.C. 3841(a)(3)(B) ) is amended to read as follows: (B) for the conservation stewardship program under subchapter B of that chapter, $1,800,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2031. . 2. Transfer of funds $5,020,000,000 of the unobligated balances of amount appropriated or otherwise made available under section 21001 of Public Law 117–169 (commonly referred to ask the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022) is hereby transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out, using the facilities and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation, the conservation stewardship program under subchapter B of chapter 4 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 ( 16 U.S.C. 3839aa–21 et seq. ).