HR 3438
107th Congress
House
Agriculture and Food
Agricultural conservation
Agricultural subsidies
Cropland conversion program
Droughts
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Fires
Floods
Grazing
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Soil conservation
Water Resources Development
Wetland conservation
To authorize the State committees appointed to carry out agricultural credit programs under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit the emergency commercial use of land enrolled in the conservation reserve program.
Introduced: December 6, 2001
Introduced by:
Simpson, Michael K.
Republican
· Idaho
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Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 11, 2001
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Dec 11, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
Dec 6, 2001
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Dec 6, 2001
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 respecting the conservation reserve program to: (1) permit State committees to allow grazing, harvesting, or other commercial forage use of conservation reserve land in response to drought, wildfire, flood, or other similar emergency; and (2) revise the Secretary of Agriculture's authority regarding such use.
What's happening now
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Committees of jurisdiction
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