S. 629 Senate Agriculture and Food
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
BECAME LAW JUL 12, 2026
Became Law on Jul 12, 2026.
- Senate Introduced in Senate Feb 19, 2025
- Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Feb 19, 2025
- Senate Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1565; text: CR S1565) Mar 24, 2026
- Senate Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry discharged by Unanimous Consent. Mar 24, 2026
- Senate Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. Mar 24, 2026
- Senate Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. Mar 24, 2026
- Senate Message on Senate action sent to the House. Mar 24, 2026
- House Received in the House. Mar 24, 2026
- House Held at the desk. Mar 24, 2026
- Senate Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 368 - 19 (Roll no. 223). (text: CR H4137) Jun 23, 2026
- House Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4137-4138) Jun 23, 2026
- House Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4192) Jun 23, 2026
- House On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 368 - 19 (Roll no. 223). (text: CR H4137) Jun 23, 2026
- House Mr. Lucas moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill. Jun 23, 2026
- House Considered under suspension of the rules. Jun 23, 2026
- House DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 629. Jun 23, 2026
- House At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed. Jun 23, 2026
- House Considered as unfinished business. Jun 23, 2026
- Senate Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 368 - 19 (Roll no. 223). Jun 23, 2026
- House On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 368 - 19 (Roll no. 223). Jun 23, 2026
- House Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. Jun 23, 2026
- HouseOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass Jun 23, 2026
- SenatePresented to President. Jun 30, 2026
- SenateBecame Public Law No: 119-102. Jul 12, 2026
- House Latest actionSent to Archivist of the United States unsigned. Jul 12, 2026
Cosponsors
2
Subjects
Agricultural prices, subsidies, creditEmergency planning and evacuationFarmlandFiresForests, forestry, treesNatural disasters
Committees
- Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee
- [Discharged From, Mar 24, 2026]
- [Referred To, Feb 19, 2025]
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.
[Summary as of: Introduced in Senate]
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