HR 6717
118th Congress
House
Agriculture and Food
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Emergency planning and evacuation
Farmland
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Natural disasters
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2023
Introduced: December 12, 2023
Introduced by:
Letlow, Julia
Republican
· Louisiana
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Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 25, 2024
Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
Jan 25, 2024
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
Dec 12, 2023
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Dec 12, 2023
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2023
This bill revises the Emergency Conservation Program and the Emergency Forest Restoration Program to provide agricultural producers and owners of nonindustrial private forest land impacted by natural disasters the option to receive an advance on cost-sharing payments before carrying out emergency measures.
The bill also expands eligibility for payments under the programs to include emergency measures to address damages caused by (1) a wildfire that is not caused naturally if the damage is caused by the spread of the wildfire due to natural causes, and (2) a wildfire that is caused by the federal government.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
Committees of jurisdiction
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