3.0.0 540 2025-12-05T08:52:33Z 2025-12-05T08:52:33Z Senate S S 2023-02-28 118 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/540 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-02-28T16:44:30Z 118 1236 HR 2023-03-22 Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry. Identical bill CRS 2023-02-28 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2023-02-28 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001267 Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO] Michael Bennet D CO N H000273 Sen. Hickenlooper, John W. [D-CO] John Hickenlooper D CO W. 2023-02-28 True W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR 2023-02-28 True Public Lands and Natural Resources Public Lands and Natural Resources 2023-03-21T23:15:50Z

00 2023-02-28 Introduced in Senate 2023-04-26T22:53:17Z <p><strong>Protect the West Act of 2023</strong><strong></strong></p> <p>This bill establishes and provides funding for the Restoration and Resilience Grant Program and the Restoration and Resilience Partnership Program.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill establishes in the Treasury an Outdoor and Watershed Restoration Fund to provide funding for such programs.</p> <p>The bill establishes a Restoration Fund Advisory Council to provide recommendations to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) respecting the disbursement of amounts from the fund for the grant program, priority setting for landscapes, and evaluation and monitoring for restoration and resilience project success.</p> <p>The grant program shall provide grants or pay-for-performance contracts to eligible entities (e.g., a state agency, a unit of local government, or a tribal government) for</p> <ul> <li>increasing the capacity for planning, coordinating, and monitoring restoration and resilience projects on nonfederal land and providing support for collaboration and monitoring on federal land; and</li> <li>supporting, on nonfederal land, restoration and resilience projects, efforts to improve wildfire resistive construction and reduce risks within the home ignition zone, and projects to expand equitable outdoor access.</li> </ul> <p>Under the Restoration and Resilience Partnership Program, USDA shall carry out restoration and resilience projects that reduce wildfire potential, improve community resilience in the wildland-urban interface, or restore wildlife habitat.</p>

Display Title 45 2024-07-24T15:23:41Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 2024-05-24T13:42:18Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 2023-03-10T03:59:03Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118s540is/xml/BILLS-118s540is.xml 2023-02-28 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.