Livestock Disaster Assistance Improvement Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to expand emergency conservation program eligibility to include federal permit holders and state/local land lessees, allows permanent measures like water wells and pipelines, defines additional requirements for emergency conservation program, expanding eligible recipients to include federal permit holders and state/local land lessees, allowing permanent infrastructure like wells, and authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to implement water conservation and water enhancing measures during severe drought conditions. It relies on grants, definition changes, exemptions, and compliance mandates. The main policy areas are Agriculture and Housing.
Who Benefits and How
Ranchers with federal grazing permits could gain revenue opportunities, Ranchers on federal lands with grazing permits could gain revenue opportunities, and Livestock producers in drought-affected counties could gain revenue opportunities.
Who Bears the Burden and How
USDA Office of the Chief Economist would take on compliance duties, U.S. Forest Service would take on compliance duties, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would take on compliance duties.
Key Provisions
- Amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to expand emergency conservation program eligibility to include federal permit holders and state/local land lessees, allows permanent measures like water wells and pipelines...
- Defines additional requirements for emergency conservation program, expanding eligible recipients to include federal permit holders and state/local land lessees, allowing permanent infrastructure like wells...
- Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to implement water conservation and water enhancing measures during severe drought conditions.
- Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to implement the emergency watershed program for disaster relief.
- Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to issue regulations to implement the emergency conservation program provisions.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to expand emergency conservation program eligibility to include federal permit holders and state/local land lessees, allows permanent measures like water wells and pipelines, defines additional requirements for emergency conservation program, expanding eligible recipients to include federal permit holders and state/local land lessees, allowing permanent infrastructure like wells, and authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to implement water conservation and water enhancing measures during severe drought conditions.
Key Policy Areas
Agriculture, Housing
Primary Purpose
The bill amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to expand emergency conservation program eligibility to include federal permit holders and state/local land lessees, allows permanent measures like water wells and pipelines, defines additional requirements for emergency conservation program, expanding eligible recipients to include federal permit holders and state/local land lessees, allowing permanent infrastructure like wells, and authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to implement water conservation and water enhancing measures during severe drought conditions.
Policy Domains
Livestock Disaster Assistance Improvement Act of 2025
Identified Gains
- Ranchers with federal grazing permits
- Ranchers on federal lands with grazing permits
- Livestock producers in drought-affected counties
- Commercial beekeepers (honey bee producers)
- Ranchers dependent on grazing land
Identified Costs
- USDA Office of the Chief Economist
- U.S. Forest Service
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Farm Service Agency
- USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Sponsors
John Thune
R-SD | Primary Sponsor
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Thune (for himself and Mr. Luján) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Agricultural producers affected by drought, Agricultural producers leasing state/local lands, Agricultural producers on state/local leased lands
Bureau of Land Management, Environmental review processes, Farm Service Agency
Positive-direction: Bureau of Land Management
Negative-direction: Farm Service Agency, Forest Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA Office of the Chief Economist
Commercial beekeepers (honey bee producers), Large-scale beekeeping operations
Rural communities affected by watershed emergencies
State mesonet programs in drought-prone states
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "chief"
- → Chief of the Forest Service
- "administrator"
- → Administrator of the Farm Service Agency
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Agriculture
- "secretary_of_the_interior"
- → Secretary of the Interior
Note: 'The Secretary' generally refers to Secretary of Agriculture, but Section 2 also references 'Secretary of the Interior' for BLM land matters
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
With respect to nonindustrial private forest land, an owner; with respect to Federal land, a permit holder; with respect to State/local land, a lessee
An interagency working group to improve availability of consistent, accurate, and reliable data for the United States Drought Monitor
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