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  - Markup by
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  - Referred to
2021-04-20T21:49:18Z

- Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021
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HR
2021-04-22
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
  - Related bill
CRS
- 2021-06-24
16:45:22
Held at the desk.
Floor
H15000
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House floor actions
- 2021-06-24
16:41:20
Received in the House.
Floor
H14000
2
House floor actions
- 2021-06-24
Senate
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Floor
- 2021-06-24
Senate
Passed Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 92 - 8. Record Vote Number: 251. (text: CR S4740-4743)
Floor
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https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00251.xml
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117
2021-06-24T16:09:28Z
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- 2021-06-24
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 92 - 8. Record Vote Number: 251.(text: CR S4740-4743)
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117
2021-06-24T16:09:28Z
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- 2021-06-24
Senate
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S4736-4740)
Floor
- 2021-06-14
Senate
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 74.
Calendars
- 2021-06-14
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Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee
Senate
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Reported by Senator Stabenow without amendment. Without written report.
Committee
- 2021-06-14
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Reported by Senator Stabenow without amendment. Without written report.
Committee
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Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee
Senate
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Committee
- 2021-04-20
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Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee
Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
IntroReferral
- 2021-04-20
Introduced in Senate
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MI
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R
SC
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Whitehouse
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RI
2021-04-20
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Boozman
R
AR
2021-04-20
True
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Klobuchar
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MN
2021-04-20
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NE
2021-04-20
True
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Bennet
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CO
2021-04-20
True
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Grassley
R
IA
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2021-04-20
True
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Smith
D
MN
2021-04-20
True
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IA
2021-04-20
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2021-04-20
True
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Thune
R
SD
R.
2021-04-20
True
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2021-04-20
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Collins
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2021-04-20
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NV
2021-04-20
True
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Todd
Young
R
IN
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2021-04-20
True
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D
OH
2021-04-20
True
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Hoeven
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ND
2021-04-20
True
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Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
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Shaheen
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NH
2021-04-20
True
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Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Marco
Rubio
R
FL
2021-04-20
True
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Heinrich
D
NM
T.
2021-04-20
True
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Cassidy
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LA
2021-04-20
True
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Feinstein
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CA
2021-04-20
True
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Murkowski
R
AK
2021-04-20
True
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Thomas
Carper
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2021-04-20
True
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2021-04-20
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Wyden
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2021-04-20
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Mike
Crapo
R
ID
2021-04-20
True
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D
NM
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2021-04-20
True
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MS
2021-04-20
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Baldwin
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WI
2021-04-20
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WY
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2021-04-20
True
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2021-04-20
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2021-04-20
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Marshall
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KS
2021-04-20
True
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Cornyn
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TX
2021-04-20
True
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Cramer
R
ND
2021-04-20
True
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Casey
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PA
2021-04-21
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Portman
R
OH
2021-04-21
False
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Gary
Peters
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MI
2021-04-22
False
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Durbin
D
IL
J.
2021-04-22
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Schatz
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2021-04-22
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Kelly
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AZ
2021-04-29
False
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Scott
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SC
2021-05-10
False
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Blunt
R
MO
2021-05-10
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NH
2021-05-10
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Rounds
R
SD
2021-05-11
False
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Duckworth
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IL
2021-05-18
False
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Kaine
D
VA
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2021-05-24
False
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Catherine
Cortez Masto
D
NV
2021-06-08
False
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John
Hickenlooper
D
CO
W.
2021-06-14
False
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Kyrsten
Sinema
D
AZ
2021-06-23
False
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Roger
Wicker
R
MS
F.
2021-06-23
False
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Moran
R
KS
2021-06-23
False
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S. 1251, Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57235
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry on April 22, 2021
Agriculture and Food
- Advisory bodies
- Agricultural conservation and pollution
- Agricultural practices and innovations
- Air quality
- Civil actions and liability
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Congressional oversight
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Farmland
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
- Government information and archives
- Land use and conservation
- Livestock
- Solid waste and recycling
- Wetlands
Agriculture and Food
00
2021-04-20
Introduced in Senate
2021-05-12T16:54:19Z
Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021
This bill authorizes the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a voluntary Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Certification Program to help reduce entry barriers into voluntary environmental credit markets for farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners. A voluntary environmental credit market is a market through which agriculture and forestry credits may be bought or sold.
Entities eligible to participate in the program are (1) providers of technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, or private forest landowners in carrying out sustainable land use management practices that prevent, reduce, or mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, or sequester carbon; or (2) third-party verifiers that conduct the verification of the processes described in the protocols for voluntary environmental credit markets.
Among other requirements, USDA must publish (1) a list of protocols and qualifications for eligible entities; (2) information describing how entities may self-certify under the program; (3) information describing how entities may obtain the expertise to meet the protocols and qualifications; and (4) instructions and suggestions to assist farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners in facilitating the development of agriculture or forestry credits and accessing voluntary environmental credit markets.
USDA must also establish an advisory council to make recommendations regarding the list of protocols and qualifications, best practices, and voluntary environmental credit markets.
The bill also rescinds certain funds provided in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and makes the funds available for the certification program.
25
2021-06-14
Reported to Senate
2021-06-23T18:48:25Z
Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021
This bill authorizes the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a voluntary Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Certification Program to help reduce entry barriers into voluntary environmental credit markets for farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners. A voluntary environmental credit market is a market through which agriculture and forestry credits may be bought or sold.
Entities eligible to participate in the program are (1) providers of technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, or private forest landowners in carrying out sustainable land use management practices that prevent, reduce, or mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, or sequester carbon; or (2) third-party verifiers that conduct the verification of the processes described in the protocols for voluntary environmental credit markets.
Among other requirements, USDA must publish (1) a list of protocols and qualifications for eligible entities; (2) information describing how entities may self-certify under the program; (3) information describing how entities may obtain the expertise to meet the protocols and qualifications; and (4) instructions and suggestions to assist farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners in facilitating the development of agriculture or forestry credits and accessing voluntary environmental credit markets.
USDA must also establish an advisory council to make recommendations regarding the list of protocols and qualifications, best practices, and voluntary environmental credit markets.
The bill also rescinds certain funds provided in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and makes the funds available for the certification program.
55
2021-06-24
Passed Senate
2021-12-09T18:01:26Z
Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021
This bill authorizes the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a voluntary Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Certification Program to help reduce entry barriers into voluntary environmental credit markets for farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners. A voluntary environmental credit market is a market through which agriculture and forestry credits may be bought or sold.
Entities eligible to participate in the program are (1) providers of technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, or private forest landowners in carrying out sustainable land use management practices that prevent, reduce, or mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, or sequester carbon; or (2) third-party verifiers that conduct the verification of the processes described in the protocols for voluntary environmental credit markets.
Among other requirements, USDA must publish (1) a list of protocols and qualifications for eligible entities; (2) information describing how entities may self-certify under the program; (3) information describing how entities may obtain the expertise to meet the protocols and qualifications; and (4) instructions and suggestions to assist farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners in facilitating the development of agriculture or forestry credits and accessing voluntary environmental credit markets.
USDA must also establish an advisory council to make recommendations regarding the list of protocols and qualifications, best practices, and voluntary environmental credit markets.
The bill also rescinds certain funds provided in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and makes the funds available for the certification program.

Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021
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Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021
- Official Title as Introduced

A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a program to reduce barriers to entry for farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners in certain voluntary markets, and for other purposes.
Introduced in Senate
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Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021
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Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021
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Engrossed in Senate
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Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021
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Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021
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SAMDT
In the nature of a substitute.
2022-02-09T05:36:09Z
2021-06-24
Amendment SA 2119 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 11 - 89. Record Vote Number: 250.
Record Vote Number: 250
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00250.xml
SA 2119
https://www.congress.gov/amendment/117th-congress/senate-amendment/2119
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Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
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Lee
R
UT
2021-06-24T04:00:00Z
2021-06-22T04:00:00Z
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Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021
2023-03-08T19:59:03Z
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- 2021-06-24
0
Senate
Amendment SA 2119 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 11 - 89. Record Vote Number: 250.
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2021-06-24T15:14:01Z
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https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00250.xml
- 2021-06-24
0
Senate
Amendment SA 2119 proposed by Senator Lee. (consideration: CR S4736-4739; text:CR S4701-4704) In the nature of a substitute.
Floor
- 2021-06-24
Senate amendment proposed (on the floor): Amendment SA 2119 proposed by Senator Lee.(consideration: CR S4736-4739; text: 06/22/2021 CR S4701-4704)
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Roll call votes on amendments in Senate: Amendment SA 2119 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 11 - 89. Record Vote Number: 250.
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https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00250.xml
- 2021-06-24
Senate amendment not agreed to: Amendment SA 2119 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 11 - 89. Record Vote Number: 250.
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https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00250.xml
- 2021-06-22
Senate amendment submitted
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2021-06-24T04:00:00Z
  - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s1251es/xml/BILLS-117s1251es.xml
- Reported to Senate
2021-06-14T04:00:00Z
  - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s1251rs/xml/BILLS-117s1251rs.xml
- Introduced in Senate
2021-04-20T04:00:00Z
  - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s1251is/xml/BILLS-117s1251is.xml
2021-06-24
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16:45:22
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