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HR 5976 114th Congress House

Agriculture Conservation Stamp Act

Official title: To provide for the issuance of a semipostal to support Department of Agriculture conservation programs, and for other purposes.

Introduced: September 8, 2016 See on congress.gov
Agriculture and Food Agricultural conservation and pollutionDepartment of AgricultureExecutive agency funding and structurePostal service
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Sep 23, 2016
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Sep 8, 2016
Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Sep 8, 2016
Introduced in House
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 Latest action September 23, 2016

Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Agriculture Conservation Stamp Act

This bill requires the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to issue for a four-year period a semipostal to benefit certain Department of Agriculture (USDA) conservation programs. (A semipostal is a postage stamp that is issued and sold by the USPS at a premium, in order to help provide funding for a cause that the USPS considers to be in the national public interest and appropriate.)

USDA is the sole agency to which the USPS may transfer funds received from the sale of the semipostal. USDA must use the transferred funds exclusively for programs authorized under title XII (Conservation) of the Food Security Act of 1985.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 581 Reintroduced Bill Agriculture Conservation Stamp Act
 Bill text 1 version

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5976: Agriculture Conservation Stamp Act. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-5976/
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"H.R. 5976: Agriculture Conservation Stamp Act." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-5976/.
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H.R. 5976, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-5976/.
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