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Conservation Security Act of 2000

Introduced: October 19, 2000 See on congress.gov
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Oct 30, 2000
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Resource Conservation and Credit.
Oct 19, 2000
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Oct 19, 2000
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Conservation Security Act of 2000 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a conservation security program to assist agricultural owners and operators promote conservation of soil, water, and related resources such as wildlife and wetlands.

Requires a participant to submit a resource security plan. Sets forth three tiers of resource security plan conservation practices, and bases a participant's annual payments upon implemented tiers.

What's happening now October 30, 2000

Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Resource Conservation and Credit.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • S 3260 Identical bill Conservation Security Act of 2000
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 2 Republican 1
D
Bishop, Sanford D.
Georgia · Oct 19, 2000
 D
Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Oct 19, 2000
 R
Thune, John
South Dakota · Oct 19, 2000
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5511: Conservation Security Act of 2000. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-5511/
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"H.R. 5511: Conservation Security Act of 2000." 106th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-5511/.
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H.R. 5511, 106th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-5511/.
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