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HR 4017 118th Congress House Agriculture and Food Agricultural conservation and pollution Farmland Land use and conservation Livestock Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Conservation Reserve Program Improvement Act of 2023

Introduced: June 12, 2023 Introduced by: Costa, Jim Democratic · California See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Became law
Jul 28, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
Jun 12, 2023
Introduced in House
Jun 12, 2023
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
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Conservation Reserve Program Improvement Act of 2023

This bill revises the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) of the Farm Service Agency. CRP is a land conservation program that provides an annual rental payment to farmers in exchange for farmers removing environmentally sensitive land from agricultural production and planting species that will improve environmental health and quality.

Specifically, the bill permanently establishes a continuous enrollment procedure for land that will be enrolled under the State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement Initiative.

Additionally, the bill provides federal cost sharing payments for the establishment of grazing infrastructure on all CRP contracts and practices, if grazing is included in the conservation plan and addresses a resource concern. It also provides federal cost sharing payments under CRP for management activities to implement the conservation plan that are not related to haying or grazing.

Further, the bill increases the CRP annual rental payment limitation from $50,000 to $125,000.

What's happening now July 28, 2023

Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1
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Lawler, Michael
New York · Sep 1, 2023
 D
Panetta, Jimmy
California · Jun 30, 2023
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4017: Conservation Reserve Program Improvement Act of 2023. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-4017/
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"H.R. 4017: Conservation Reserve Program Improvement Act of 2023." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-4017/.
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H.R. 4017, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-4017/.
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