3.0.0 5781 2026-07-23T22:41:28Z 2026-07-23T22:41:28Z House H HR 2025-10-17 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5781 [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 172 (Friday, October 17, 2025)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mr. NEGUSE:H.R. 5781.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8[Page H4542]]]> hsag00 Agriculture Committee House Standing hsag14 Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee Referred to 2025-12-02T14:32:03Z Referred To 2025-10-17T18:03:00Z Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 119 7567 HR 2026-05-19 Received in the Senate. Related bill CRS MATCH Act of 2025 119 1107 S 2025-03-25 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Identical bill CRS 2025-12-02 hsag14 Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology. Committee 2025-10-17 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsag00 Agriculture Committee 2025-10-17 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2025-10-17 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress N000191 Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2] Joe Neguse D CO 2 N M001228 Rep. Maloy, Celeste [R-UT-2] Celeste Maloy R UT 2 2025-10-17 True G000559 Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-8] John Garamendi D CA 8 2025-10-17 True S001221 Rep. Scholten, Hillary J. [D-MI-3] Hillary Scholten D MI J. 3 2026-04-30 False Agriculture and Food Agriculture and Food 2025-12-04T21:38:54Z 00 2025-10-17 Introduced in House 2026-03-24T17:58:26Z Making Access To Cleanup Happen Act of 2025 or the MATCH Act of 2025

This bill modifies the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program to allow sponsors (i.e., states, local governments, and Indian tribes) to undertake certain emergency watershed protection measures prior to entering into a project agreement with USDA and count the costs as part of the sponsor's share of the project cost once an agreement with USDA is in place.

As background, USDA's EWP Program offers assistance to sponsors to carry out projects that help safeguard people and property from floods, drought, fires, windstorms, and other natural disasters that impair a watershed.

This bill requires USDA to identify a list of emergency watershed protection measures that a sponsor may incur costs for prior to entering into a project agreement with USDA under the EWP Program. USDA must develop a procedure, to be implemented at the state level, through which these entities may request additional emergency watershed protection measures. The cost of undertaking these additional measures may be incurred by a sponsor prior to entering into an agreement with USDA.

Further, USDA must consider pre-agreement costs incurred by a sponsor for undertaking the emergency watershed protection measures as meeting part of a sponsor's contribution towards the project costs.

]]> MATCH Act of 2025 Display Title 45 MATCH Act of 2025 2026-07-17T23:45:54Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 MATCH Act of 2025 2025-10-22T06:23:14Z Introduced in House IH Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Making Access To Cleanup Happen Act of 2025 2025-10-22T06:23:14Z Introduced in House IH Official Title as Introduced 6 To amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 with respect to preagreement costs of emergency watershed protection measures, and for other purposes. 2025-10-22T06:18:21Z Introduced in House IH Introduced in House 2025-10-17T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr5781ih/xml/BILLS-119hr5781ih.xml 2025-12-02 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology. 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.