MARKER BILL TRACKER

This bipartisan legislation would reauthorize the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration Partnership Initiative (Joint Chiefs), initially codified in 2021 as an amendment to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and expand the program to better support forest and grassland restoration projects across public and private land.

To mobilize greater federal resources and direct research into safeguarding our nation’s White Oak tree population.

To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program under which the Secretary will enter into cooperative agreements with State, local, or Tribal governments increase the purchase of local foods, and for other purposes.

To increase market access for Black farmers and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, to ensure civil rights accountability, and for other purposes.

A bill to amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to reauthorize the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network, and for other purposes.

To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to include Indian Tribes in certain provisions relating to priority Primary Title To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to include Indian Tribes in certain provisions relating to priority

To ensure the federal government does not make decisions about the nutrition assistance programs Tribes rely on without their input.

To direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to encourage and expand the use of prescribed fire on land managed by the Department of the Interior or the Forest Service, with an emphasis on units of the National Forest System in the western and southeastern United States, to acknowledge and support the long-standing use of cultural burning by Indian Tribes and Indigenous practitioners, and for other purposes.

A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into self-determination contracts and self-governance agreements with Indian entities to administer the food distribution program on Indian reservations.

A bill to amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to establish the ReConnect program under that Act, and for other purposes.

A bill to increase access to broadband telecommunications services in rural areas, to increase minimum broadband speeds in rural areas, and to provide grants, loans, and loan guarantees to finance the costs of the construction, improvement, and acquisition of facilities and equipment for broadband service in rural areas, and other purposes.

A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to repeal the particular work requirement that disqualifies able-bodied adults for eligibility to participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other purposes.

A bill to establish the New Producer Economic Security Program within the Farm Service Agency Office of Outreach and Education.

A bill to direct the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to modify the certification process for Technical Service Providers (TSPs) at the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) by establishing an approval process for nonfederal certifying entities and a streamlined certification process for TSPs that hold certain specialty certifications.

A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a Forest Conservation Easement Program, and for other purposes.

A bill to improve the health and resiliency of giant sequoias, and for other purposes.

A bill to direct Federal land management agencies of the Department of the Interior to establish Tribal Co-Management Plans and to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into agreements with the  Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations for the performance of certain activities of the Forest Service, and for other purposes.

A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out a demonstration project to allow Tribal entities to purchase agricultural commodities under the commodity supplemental food program, and for other purposes.

A bill to amend the Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004 to improve that Act, and for other purposes