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Climate Agricultural Conservation Practices Act
To require the Natural Resources Conservation Service to review the national conservation practice standards, taking into consideration climate benefits, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill requires the Natural Resources Conservation Service to review national conservation practice standards, with a new focus on evaluating climate benefits. The review timeline is extended to five years after the bill's enactment. Climate benefits are defined as reductions in agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, increases in carbon sequestration, or mitigation and adaptation efforts related to weather volatility. The bill directs the review process to consider climate benefits alongside other factors such as conservation innovations. The standards review process will now explicitly evaluate how conservation practices affect climate outcomes.
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Sponsor (1)
7 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Julia Brownley’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $9,600
- HAAS AUTOMATION $9,100
- SPARAGNA & SPARAGNA $6,600
- HACKMAN CAPITAL $6,600
- UNITED STAFFING ASSOCIATES $6,600
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Julia Brownley → · Outside spending →
Actions (3)
- Mar 28, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology. · house
- Mar 5, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. · house
- Mar 5, 2025 Introduced in House
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Text versions (1)
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 5, 2025
Ms. Brownley (for herself, Ms. Castor of Florida, Ms. Salinas, and Ms. Stansbury) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To require the Natural Resources Conservation Service to review the national conservation practice standards, taking into consideration climate benefits, 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 “Climate Agricultural Conservation Practices Act”.
SEC. 2. CONSIDERATION OF CLIMATE BENEFITS IN CONSERVATION PRACTICE STANDARDS.
Section 1242(h) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3842(h)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking “1 year after the date of enactment of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018” and inserting “5 years after the date of enactment of the Climate Agricultural Conservation Practices Act”;
(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking “; and” and inserting a semicolon;
(C) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and
(D) by adding at the end the following:
“(E) evaluate the climate benefits of the standards.”;
(2) in paragraph (3)(B), by striking “conservation innovations and” and inserting “climate benefits, conservation innovations, and”; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
“(5) Climate benefit defined.—In this subsection, the term ‘climate benefit’ means—
“(A) a reduction in agricultural greenhouse gas emissions;
“(B) an increase in carbon sequestration; or
“(C) mitigation against, or adaptation to, increased weather volatility.”. <all>
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