[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6811 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6811

To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to 
  provide for high-priority research and extension grants for natural 
               climate solutions, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 14, 2023

 Mr. Garbarino (for himself and Ms. Houlahan) introduced the following 
        bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to 
  provide for high-priority research and extension grants for natural 
               climate solutions, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Natural Climate Solutions Research 
and Extension Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. HIGH-PRIORITY RESEARCH AND EXTENSION GRANTS FOR NATURAL CLIMATE 
              SOLUTIONS.

    Section 1672(d) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade 
Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5925(d)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
            ``(21) Natural climate solutions.--Research and extension 
        grants may be made under this section for the purpose of 
        advancing land management practices that store carbon or reduce 
        greenhouse gas emissions in agricultural lands and soils, 
        grasslands, wetlands, and forests, including practices that--
                    ``(A) are based on traditional ecological 
                knowledge;
                    ``(B) promote biodiversity and climate change 
                resilience; and
                    ``(C) reduce runoff.''.
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