119-s1758

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1758 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 1758

 To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to provide 
 mandatory funding from the Commodity Credit Corporation for 
 reimbursement payments to geographically disadvantaged farmers and 
 ranchers, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 May 14, 2025

 Ms. Hirono (for herself, Mr. Sullivan, and Mr. Schatz) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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 A BILL

 To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to provide 
 mandatory funding from the Commodity Credit Corporation for 
 reimbursement payments to geographically disadvantaged farmers and 
 ranchers, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``RTCP Revitalization Act''.

SEC. 2. COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION FUNDING FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY 
 DISADVANTAGED FARMERS AND RANCHERS.

 

Section 1621 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 8792) is amended--

    (1) in subsection

    (b) , by striking ``Subject to the 
 availability of funds under subsection
            (d) , the Secretary'' and 
 inserting ``The Secretary'';

    (2) in subsection
            (c) (3) , by striking subparagraph
        (B) and 
 inserting the following:
 ``
        (B) Payment limitations.--The Secretary may not 
 impose a limitation on the amount of payments received 
 by a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher 
 under this section for any fiscal year in which the 
 amount made available for payments under this section 
 is equal to or greater than the amount that may be 
 provided in accordance with this section with respect 
 to applications received by the Secretary for that 
 fiscal year.''; and

    (3) in subsection
            (d) , by striking the subsection 
 designation and heading and all that follows through ``There 
 are'' and inserting the following:
 ``
            (d) Funding.--
 ``

    (1) Mandatory funding.--Of the funds of the Commodity 
 Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall use to carry out this 
 section--
 ``
        (A) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2026;
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        (B) $11,000,000 for fiscal year 2027;
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            (C) $12,000,000 for fiscal year 2028;
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            (D) $13,000,000 for fiscal year 2029;
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        (E) $14,000,000 for fiscal year 2030; and
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        (F) $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2031 and each 
 fiscal year thereafter.
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    (2) Authorization of appropriations.--There are''.
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