3.0.0 1809 2025-12-05T09:20:52Z 2025-12-05T09:20:52Z Senate S S 2023-06-06 118 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1809 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-06-06T19:49:11Z 118 3877 HR 2023-06-06 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. Identical bill CRS 2023-06-06 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2023-06-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ N W000800 Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] Peter Welch D VT 2023-07-25 False M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. 2023-09-19 False Agriculture and Food Agriculture and Food 2023-06-30T14:15:24Z

00 2023-06-06 Introduced in Senate 2024-01-17T19:43:44Z <p><b>Office of Small Farms Establishment Act of 2023</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish the Office of Small Farms within the farm production and conservation mission area.</p> <p>The office must coordinate, review, and implement various programs and activities related to small farms, ranches, and forest operations. Under the bill, a <i>small </i>farm, ranch, or forest operation (1) is less than 180 acres or meets another USDA-determined, acreage-based definition of small; and (2) has an annual gross cash farm income of less than $350,000.</p> <p>Activities of the office related to small farms, ranches, and forest operations must include</p> <ul> <li>coordinating USDA efforts to improve support for these operators;</li> <li>reviewing and recommending changes to USDA statutory, regulatory, and administrative provisions, guidance, and policies that disadvantage these operators;</li> <li>providing or coordinating technical assistance for these operators for USDA grant, cost-share, and loan programs; and</li> <li>providing grants of not more than $25,000 to these operators directly or through cooperative agreements with other entities for areas including equipment and infrastructure repairs and upgrades, uninsured losses, business planning, and conservation practice adoption. </li> </ul>

Display Title 45 2024-07-24T15:21:46Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 2024-05-24T13:39:07Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 2023-06-29T02:58:56Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118s1809is/xml/BILLS-118s1809is.xml 2023-06-06 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.