BUFFER Act

3.0.0 2798 2025-12-06T01:11:05Z 2025-12-06T01:11:05Z Senate S S 2023-09-14 118 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2798 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-09-14T14:36:37Z BUFFER Act 118 5466 HR 2023-09-26 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology. Related bill CRS 2023-09-14 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2023-09-14 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000800 Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] Peter Welch D VT N S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT 2023-09-14 True Agriculture and Food Farmland 2024-08-07T17:56:17Z Lakes and rivers 2024-08-07T17:56:17Z Land use and conservation 2024-08-07T17:56:17Z State and local government operations 2024-08-07T17:56:17Z Water quality 2024-08-07T17:56:17Z Wetlands 2024-08-07T17:56:17Z Wildlife conservation and habitat protection 2024-08-07T17:56:17Z Agriculture and Food 2023-09-28T16:15:17Z

00 2023-09-14 Introduced in Senate 2024-10-29T14:08:37Z Building Up Farmland Frontiers for Ecological Resilience Act or the BUFFER ActThis bill provides that certain land (that is under state regulations) is eligible to participate under the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Under CRP, the Department of Agriculture provides annual payments to agricultural producers to take highly erodible and environmentally sensitive land out of production and install resource-conserving practices.  Specifically, land otherwise eligible under the program remains eligible for enrollment even if a tribal, state, or other local law, ordinance, or other regulation requires any resource-conserving or environmental protection measure or practice. The bill includes an exception that makes the land ineligible under the program if the implementation requirement has been imposed by an administrative order or a court order.Current regulations exclude from enrollment eligibility (with exceptions) land that is subject to tribal, state, or other local laws, ordinances, or other regulations that require any resource-conserving or environmental protection measures or practices.

BUFFER Act Display Title 45 BUFFER Act 2024-07-24T15:20:28Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 BUFFER Act 2024-05-24T13:36:34Z Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Building Up Farmland Frontiers for Ecological Resilience Act 2024-05-24T13:36:34Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to clarify land eligible for enrollment in the conservation reserve program. 2023-09-19T03:28:50Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118s2798is/xml/BILLS-118s2798is.xml 2023-09-14 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.