3.0.0 658 2025-12-05T09:07:24Z 2025-12-05T09:07:24Z Senate S S 2023-03-06 118 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/658 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-03-06T21:53:25Z 118 5252 HR 2023-09-25 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology. Identical bill CRS 2023-03-06 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2023-03-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ N L000577 Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT] Mike Lee R UT 2023-03-06 True B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2023-03-28 False Agriculture and Food Agricultural conservation and pollution 2024-08-05T17:49:32Z Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit 2024-08-05T17:49:32Z Congressional oversight 2024-08-05T17:49:32Z Land use and conservation 2024-08-05T17:49:32Z Water quality 2024-08-05T17:49:32Z Wildlife conservation and habitat protection 2024-08-05T17:49:32Z Agriculture and Food 2023-03-28T20:47:58Z

00 2023-03-06 Introduced in Senate 2024-01-17T14:10:43Z <p><b>EQIP Improvement Act of 2023</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to reduce and remove certain payment requirements. (EQIP provides technical and financial assistance to agricultural producers and forest landowners to address natural resource concerns.)</p> <p>Specifically, the bill </p> <ul> <li>reduces the maximum payments available to a person or legal entity under EQIP to $150,000 per five-year period (from the current level of $450,000), thereby allowing for an increase in the overall number of participants in the program;</li> <li>reduces federal cost sharing to 40% (from 75%) for the costs associated with planning, installation, or maintenance for specified conservation practices (e.g., access roads, dams, and waste storage facilities); and </li> <li>removes a requirement that 50% of EQIP funding payments go to livestock production programs. </li> </ul>

Display Title 45 2024-07-24T15:23:32Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 2024-05-24T13:42:00Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 2023-03-18T02:59:13Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118s658is/xml/BILLS-118s658is.xml 2023-03-06 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.