S1617-119

In Committee

LAST ACRE Act of 2025

119th Congress Introduced May 6, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, LAST ACRE Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses. The main policy domain is Agriculture, Technology, Environment.

Who Benefits and How

farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Linking Access to Spur Technology for Agriculture Connectivity in Rural Environments Act of 2025 or the LAST ACRE...
  • Section id38674df6d4584140854abd1c7899a0b5: 2. Last Acre Program Title VI of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 950bb et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: The purposes of...
  • Section id65408984b8c544309bda81219901a8a3: 607. Last Acre Program The purposes of this section are— to advance precision agriculture connectivity nationwide; and to augment last mile broadband...
  • Section idd6c8ef1150274cc7bfb333a5f3d605ec: 3. National Agricultural Statistics Service data collection on broadband adoption To provide for the collection and analysis by the National Agricultural...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, LAST ACRE Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses.

Key Policy Areas

Agriculture, Technology, Environment

Primary Purpose

This bill, LAST ACRE Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses.

Policy Domains

Agriculture Technology Environment

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses
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farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses: ,
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses
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farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses: ,

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
May 6, 2025

Mrs. Fischer (for herself and Mr. Luján) introduced the following …

May 6, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, …

May 6, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Agriculture Technology Environment
Actor Mappings
"the_commission"
→ The commission identified in the operative section
"secretary_of_agriculture"
→ Secretary of Agriculture

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

2 terms
"qualifying connectivity" §id38674df6d4584140854abd1c7899a0b5

the service offered by a covered provider as a result of assistance under subsection (c) that— (i) is capable of a speed of not less than— (I) a 100-Mbps downstream transmission capacity

"qualifying connectivity" §id65408984b8c544309bda81219901a8a3

the service offered by a covered provider as a result of assistance under subsection (c) that— is capable of a speed of not less than— a 100-Mbps downstream transmission capacity

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