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Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Improvement Act of 2025
To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to modify the conservation reserve enhancement program.
Summary
The Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Improvement Act of 2025 amends the Food Security Act to modify the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program by allowing owners and operators to elect how to allocate annual payments across the years of their agreements. The bill establishes payment rates for drought and water conservation agreements, including full irrigated rates for permanent water rights retirement and adjusted rates based on the difference between irrigated and dryland rates for agreements permitting dryland uses. It requires the Secretary of Agriculture to retroactively modify agreements entered into before enactment that have lower payment rates to recalculate at the higher rates now specified. The bill also adds dryland agricultural uses and grazing as eligible conservation practices and exempts Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program rental payments from federal payment limitations.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS] (R-KS)
3 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Roger Marshall’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $46,314
- PYRAMID SOUND $19,800
- GROWITZ EQUITY $13,200
- SPECCHEM $13,200
- ONYX EQUITY PARTNERS $13,200
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Actions (2)
- Apr 9, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. · senate
- Apr 9, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
April 9, 2025
Mr. Marshall (for himself, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Moran, and Mr. Hickenlooper) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
A BILL
To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to modify the conservation reserve enhancement program.
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 “Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Improvement Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. CONSERVATION RESERVE ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM.
(a) In General.—Section 1231A of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831a) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)(4), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting “(other than an agreement described in subsection (e))” after “this subchapter”;
(2) in subsection (b)(2)(A)(vi), by inserting “or other appropriate practices, such as dryland agricultural uses and grazing,” after “conservation practices”;
(3) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the following:
“(5) Variable allocation.—An owner or operator may elect to determine the amounts of annual payments under this section allocated to each year of the agreement under subsection
(b)(1).
“(6) Drought and water conservation agreements.—
“(A) Retirement of water rights.—In the case of an agreement described in subsection (e) that includes a permanent retirement of water rights, the payment rates for annual payments shall be equal to the irrigated acre payment rates determined by the Secretary.
“(B) Dryland agricultural uses.—
“(i) In general.—In the case of an agreement described in subsection (e) that permits dryland agricultural uses pursuant to paragraph (2) of that subsection, the payment rates for annual payments shall be equal to the difference between—
“(I) the irrigated acre payment rates determined by the Secretary; and
“(II) the dryland acre payment rates determined by the Secretary.
“(ii) Retroactive application.—In the case of an agreement covered by clause (i) entered into before the date of enactment of this paragraph under which the payment rate is lower than the payment rate that would be calculated for the agreement under that clause, the Secretary shall modify the agreement by calculating the payment rate in accordance with that clause.”; and
(4) in subsection (e)—
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “may—” and inserting “shall—”;
(B) in paragraph (1), by inserting “(including agricultural land on which a continuous crop or crop rotation is maintained)” after “agricultural land”;
(C) in paragraph (2), by striking “with the adoption of best management practices on” and inserting “in accordance with a conservation plan adopted with respect to”; and
(D) in paragraph (3), by inserting “subject to subsection (c)(6),” before “calculate”.
(b) Exemption From Payment Limitation.—Section 1234(g) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3834(g)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking “paragraph (2)” and inserting “paragraphs (2) and (3)”; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
“(3) Conservation reserve enhancement program.—Paragraph
(1) shall not apply to rental payments received under agreements entered into under section 1231A.”. <all>
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