United StatesEmergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
What it does
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.
More detail
The bill expands advance ECP payments to include payments for the rehabilitation of farmland or to repair or replace a farmland or conservation structure. Producers may receive an advance on cost-sharing payments for 75% of the cost of the replacement or rehabilitation and 50% of the cost of the repair. Current law limits advanced cost-sharing payments to 25% of the cost of the repair or replacement of fencing.
The bill also expands eligibility for payments under ECP to include emergency measures to address damages caused by a wildfire that is not caused naturally (including a wildfire that is caused by the federal government), if the damage is caused by the spread of the wildfire due to natural causes.
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. Recipients must use the funds within 180 days after the funds are disbursed. Currently, advance payments are not available under the program.
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- Apr 15Received in the Senate.Latest
- Apr 14Mr. Thompson (PA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- Vote recorded On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Result: Passed.House
- Apr 14Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2844-2846)
- Apr 14DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1011.
- Apr 14At 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.
- Apr 14Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H2874)
- Apr 14Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 395 - 10 (Roll no. 109). (text: CR H2844)Passed House
- Apr 14Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2025
- Mar 7Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
- Feb 5Introduced in House
- Feb 5Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.Introduced