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S629Passed Senate

Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025

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Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-02-19
Introduced
2
Cosponsors
S
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Type

Sponsor

Deb Fischer
Deb Fischer
Republican · NE · Senator
Votes with party: 34.5% (322 recorded votes)

Full profile: /officials/F000463

Source: Congress.gov · FEC

Cosponsors (2)

Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.

  • Adam B. Schiff (D-CA)Original· 2025-02-19
  • Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)Original· 2025-02-19

Latest Action

The most recent step in the bill's legislative path. Committee Activity below shows referrals and reports; the full action-by-action history including floor proceedings lives at Congress.gov →

Held at the desk.

2026-03-24

Source: Congress.gov

Committee Activity

Currently in

  • Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and ForestryDischarged From · 2026-03-24

Previously

  • Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry CommitteeDischarged From · 2026-03-24
  • Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry CommitteeReferred To · 2025-02-19
  • Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and ForestryReferred To · 2025-02-19

Plain-English Summary

Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025 This bill revises the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) and the Emergency Forest Restoration Program (EFRP) to expand eligibility for payments to agricultural producers and owners of forest land impacted by natural disasters. The bill also provides additional options to receive an advance on cost-sharing payments before carrying out emergency measures. The bill expands advance ECP payments to include the replacement, repair, or restoration of farmland or conservation structures requiring an immediate response. Producers may receive an advance on cost-sharing payments for 75% of the cost of the replacement and 50% of the cost of the repair or restoration. Current law limits advance payments to 25% of the cost of the repair or replacement of fencing. Under EFRP, the bill allows owners of nonindustrial private forest land impacted by a natural disaster to receive an advance on cost-sharing payments for up to 75% of the cost of the emergency measures. Currently, advance payments are not available under the program. ECP and EFRP recipients must use the funds within 180 days after the funds are disbursed. This provides additional time to ECP recipients who currently must use the funds within 60 days. The bill also expands eligibility for payments under the programs to include emergency measures to address damages caused by (1) a wildfire that is not caused naturally, if the damage is caused by the spread of the wildfire due to natural causes; and (2) a wildfire that is caused by the federal government.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

Subjects

Agriculture and Food
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