Sponsor
Harriet Hageman
Representative · R-WY
Representative · R-WY
The bill makes it easier for private donors to fund specific conservation programs and for states/local partners to target and track those donations, but it raises risks from removing existing contribution safeguards and could create uneven funding and added administrative burdens.
Farmers and conservation program participants can receive targeted non‑Federal (private/donor) funding for specific Subtitle D programs through program‑specific sub‑accounts, increasing available project dollars for eligible producers.
State and local partners can direct donations to particular conservation initiatives and track how private contributions are used via program‑specific accounts, improving alignment of donor funds with local priorities and transparency of spending.
Donors, recipients, and administrators may face uncertainty because removing paragraphs (3)–(10) could eliminate existing rules or safeguards on contributions and create unclear donor restrictions and allowable uses of funds.
Repealing prior limits or matching requirements could lead to unequal funding across programs and beneficiaries, shifting costs or benefits unevenly and potentially disadvantaging some farmers or program participants.
Narrowing to Subtitle D program sub‑accounts may increase administrative complexity and overhead for the Department, state partners, and producers who must manage multiple targeted accounts.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Allows USDA to create a separate non‑Federal contribution sub‑account for each subtitle D conservation program and repeals several prior account provisions.
Official title: To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to repeal certain provisions relating to the acceptance and use of contributions for public-private partnerships, and for other purposes.
Introduced January 28, 2025 by Harriet Hageman · Last progress January 28, 2025
Allows the Secretary of Agriculture to set up a separate non‑Federal contribution sub‑account for each conservation program administered under subtitle D of the Food Security Act, and removes a series of older provisions that previously governed contributions and accounts. The change narrows and reorganizes the existing account authority so contributions are handled on a per‑program sub‑account basis and repeals several now‑redundant paragraphs of the statute.