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S. 629119th CongressAgriculture and Food
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) · 2 active : 2 Democrats
Latest action: Became Public Law No: 119-102.
Where it standsBecame law8 senators score as swing votes
Became law
- Senate: passedMar 24, 2026
- House: passedJun 23, 2026
- President: Signed into lawJul 12, 2026
Summary
, via Congress.govEmergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
This act 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 act also provides additional options to receive an advance on cost-sharing payments before carrying out emergency measures.
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The act expands advance ECP payments to include the replacement, repair, or restoration of farmland or conservation structures requiring an immediate response. Producers may receive an advance on cost-sharing payments for 75% of the cost of the replacement and 50% of the cost of the repair or restoration. Current law limits advance payments to 25% of the cost of the repair or replacement of fencing.
Under EFRP, the act 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. Currently, advance payments are not available under the program.
ECP and EFRP recipients must use the funds within 180 days after the funds are disbursed. This provides additional time to ECP recipients who currently must use the funds within 60 days.
The act also expands eligibility for payments under the programs to include emergency measures to address damages caused by (1) a wildfire that is not caused naturally, if the damage is caused by the spread of the wildfire due to natural causes; and (2) a wildfire that is caused by the federal government.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry · SenateDischarged from · Referred to
Subjects
- Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
- Emergency planning and evacuation
- Farmland
- Fires
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Natural disasters
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 8Swing 70–100
- 64Middle 30–70
- 28Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
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John FettermanDemocrat · Pennsylvania · Lean R+1Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
2 activeShow all 2 cosponsors
- Adam B. Schiff (D-CA)
- Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
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Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
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Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
