S 2557
115th Congress
Senate
Agriculture and Food
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural practices and innovations
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Farmland
Government studies and investigations
Lakes and rivers
Land use and conservation
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Public contracts and procurement
Soil pollution
Water quality
Watersheds
Give Our Resources the Opportunity to Work Act of 2018
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 15, 2018
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Mar 15, 2018
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Give Our Resources the Opportunity to Work Act of 2018
This bill amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to reauthorize and modify several Department of Agriculture conservation programs, including the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).
The bill includes provisions related to:
- payment rates and enrollment levels;
- the CRP eligibility requirements for land;
- the ranking of CSP applications;
- CSP payments for cover crop activities, comprehensive conservation planning, and management-intensive rotational grazing;
- coordination between EQIP and CSP, and
- set asides under EQIP for beginning and social disadvantaged farmers.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1