3.0.0 1913 2023-01-11T13:38:18Z 2023-01-11T13:38:18Z Senate S 2017-10-04 115 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-10-04T14:34:23Z American Prairie Conservation Act 115 3939 HR 2017-10-26 Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management. Identical bill CRS 2017-10-04 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2017-10-04 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress T000250 Sen. Thune, John [R-SD] John Thune R SD R. N K000367 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] Amy Klobuchar D MN 2017-10-04 True R000605 Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD] Mike Rounds R SD 2017-10-04 True B001267 Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO] Michael Bennet D CO 2017-10-04 True H001046 Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] Martin Heinrich D NM T. 2017-12-07 False U000039 Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM] TOM UDALL D NM 2018-06-25 False Agriculture and Food Agricultural insurance Congressional oversight Disaster relief and insurance Farmland Agriculture and Food 00 2017-10-04 Introduced in Senate 2018-05-04T21:15:31Z American Prairie Conservation Act

This bill amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act and the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to modify provisions, known as sodsaver provisions, that reduce benefits under the Department of Agriculture (USDA) crop insurance and noninsured crop disaster assistance programs for farmers who plant crops on native sod.

The bill also amends the Agriculture Act of 2014 to extend the requirement for USDA to submit annual reports to Congress regarding cropland acreage.

]]> American Prairie Conservation Act Display Title American Prairie Conservation Act Short Titles as Introduced American Prairie Conservation Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act and the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to make the native sod provisions applicable to the United States and to modify those provisions, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s1913is/xml/BILLS-115s1913is.xml 2017-10-04 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.