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NameNumber (Senate/House)SponsorSummary
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Keep Finfish Free Act of 2019H.R .2467Rep. Young (R-AK)The bill would prohibit the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce from authorizing commercial finfish aquaculture operations in the Exclusive Economic Zone except in accordance with a law authorizing such action.
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Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act of 2020 H.R. 8632 Reps. Grijalva (D-AZ), Huffman (D-CA)The bill would provide for ocean-based climate solutions to reduce carbon emissions and global warming; to make coastal communities more resilient; and to provide for the conservation and restoration of ocean and coastal habitats, biodiversity, and marine mammal and fish populations; and for other purposes.
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Improving Access to Nutrition Act H.R.2809 Rep. Lee (D-CA)The bill would amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to repeal the work requirement that disqualifies able-bodied adults for eligibility to participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
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Food and Nutrition Education in Schools Act of 2020
S.3293 Sen. Booker (D-NJ)/H.R.7704 - Rep. Horn (D-OK) The bill would establish a Food and Nutrition Education in Schools Pilot Program to award grants to local educational agencies for (1) projects that hire qualified, full-time food and nutrition educators to carry out programs in schools that have the goal of improving student health and nutrition and (2) projects that fund school gardens or other evidence-based interventions relating to student health and nutrition to create hands-on learning opportunities for students. Priority will be given to projects that serve schools or districts (1) in which not less than 40% of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals or (2) that include neighborhoods with high rates of childhood obesity or other diet-related diseases.
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Farmer-Driven Conservation Outcomes Act S.3429 Sens. Casey (D-PA), Capito (R-WV)/H.R.6182 - Rep. Fudge (D-OH), Thompson (R-PA)The bill would strengthen federal conservation programs by authorizing and providing funding for the measurement, evaluation, and reporting of outcomes associated with USDA’s farm bill conservation programs and practices.
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Healthy Soils, Resilient Farmers ActH.R.8057 Rep. Spanberger (D-VA)The bill would establish a “Soil Health Transition Loan Program” in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency’s (FSA’s) Conservation Loan Program to support farmers and producers looking to start or strengthen existing conservation efforts on their farms.
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Local and Regional Farmer and Market Support Act H.R. 8096 Rep. Adams (D-NC) This would create an alternative direct payment option to better support local food producers based on whole farm revenue (rather than commodity specific price declines), direct financial assistance for market operators, financial assistance for adapting to new markets, modifications to CFAP food box to use alternative GAP certification, and increase accountability on data and reporting on how CFAP funds are used.
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Relief for America’s Small Farmers Act S.3602Sen. Gillibrand (D-NY)/H.R. 6683 - Rep. Maloney (D-NY) The bill would forgive USDA FSA direct loan debt up to $250,000 for farmers with adjusted gross income up to $300,000 (over the past 5 years). Unlike many other loan forgiveness programs, this bill would ensure that farmers who receive forgiveness maintain their ability to borrow from FSA in the future, as well as eliminate tax liability for the forgiven debt.
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Protect American Children from Toxic Pesticides Act (PACTPA)
S.921 Sen. Udall (D-NM)/H.R.7940- Rep. Neguse (D-CO)This bill would fully protect the safety of children, farmworkers, consumers, and the environment, by facilitating the removal of dangerous pesticides from use.
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PRIME (Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption) Act
S.2859Sens. Paul (R-KY), King (I-ME)/H.R. 2859 - Reps. Massie (R-KY), Pingree (D-ME)The bill would allow exemptions to federal inspection of slaughtered meat and poultry for sale to grocery stores, restaurants, hotels and boarding houses, and consumers within a state.
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Voluntary Checkoff Program Participation Act S.934 Sen. Lee (R-UT)/ H.R.5699 - Rep. Riggleman (R-VA)The bill would prohibit mandatory or compulsory checkoff programs and require producer participation in the programs to be voluntary at the point of sale.
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Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act S.935Sen Lee (R-UT)/H.R.5563 - Rep. Titus (D-NV)The bill would establish restrictions and requirements for checkoff programs, which are programs overseen by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to promote and provide research and information for an agricultural commodity without reference to specific producers or brands.
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Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Anti-Trust Review Act
S.1596 Sen Booker (D-NJ)/H.R.2933 - Rep. Pocan (D-WI)The bill would impose a moratorium on large agribusiness, food and beverage manufacturing, and grocery retail mergers, and establish a commission to review large agriculture, food and beverage manufacturing, and grocery retail mergers, concentration, and market power.
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Agriculture Resilience Act H.R.5861 Rep. Pingree (D-ME)The bill would set a goal to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. agriculture by 2040 and would increase research, improve soil health, protect existing farmland, support pasture-based livestock systems, boost investments in on-farm energy initiatives, and reduce food waste.
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Farm System Reform Act S.3221Sens. Booker (D-NJ), Warren (D-MA)/H.R.6718 - Reps. Khanna (D-CA), Haaland (D-NM)The bill would cause a moratorium on large, concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), strengthen the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921, require country of origin labeling on beef, pork, and dairy products, and for other purposes.
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Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Reform Act
H.R.8522 Rep. Pocan (D-WI)The bill would amend the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 to increase oversight and enforcement with respect to foreign investment in agricultural lands within the United States, and for other purposes.
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Climate Stewardship Act of 2019S.2452Sen. Booker (D-NJ)/H. R4269 – Rep. Haaland)The bill would establish the Stewardship Corps, support voluntary climate stewardship practices on more than 100 million acres of farmland, plant more than 15 billion trees to revive deforested landscapes and expand urban tree cover, restore over two million acres of coastal wetlands, and invest in renewable energy for farmers and rural small businesses.
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Healthy Food Access for All Americans (HFAAA) S.786 Sens. Warner (D-VA), Moran (R-KS), Casey (D-PA), Capito (R-WV)/H.R.1717 Rep. Ryan (D-OH)The bill would provide incentives, through tax credits and grants, to food providers to create or expand access to healthy foods in underserved, low-access, food desert communities that have a poverty rate of 20 percent or higher or a medium family income of less than 80 percent of the median for a state or metro area.
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Enhanced Access to SNAP (EATS) Act of 2021 H.R.1919 Rep. Gomez (CA)The bill would amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to treat attendance at an institution of higher education the same as work for the purpose of determining eligibility to participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
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Kids Eat Local Act S.1817Sens. Brown (D-OH), Collins (R-ME)/H.R.3220 - Reps. Harder (D-CA), Pingree (D-ME), Fortenberry (R-NE) The bill would help increase schools’ access to locally grown foods by providing flexibility around the use of geographic preference in the National School Lunch Program and make it possible for schools to procure “locally grown, locally raised, and locally caught” food and farm products for their meal programs.
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Expanding SNAP Options ActS.313 Sen. Durbin (D-IL) This bill would amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to expand online benefit redemption options under the supplemental nutrition assistance program and would provide funding for the creation of a universal online and app-based portal to make access to nutritious foods from the full variety of SNAP retailers possible and easy to navigate for consumers.
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Farm to School Act H.R.1768 Del. Plaskett (D-VI), Rep. Fortenberry (R-NE)The bill would expand funding for and programmatic scope of the USDA Farm to School Grant Program ensuring that more racially diverse communities and high-need student populations and beginning, veteran, and socially disadvantaged farmers have a competitive opportunity to participate in the program.
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Strengthening Local Processing Act H.R.1258Sen. Thune (R-SD)/H.R.1258 - Rep. Pingree (D-ME)The bill would increase the federal share of costs for state inspection and for Cooperative Interstate Shipment (CIS) facilities, would authorize competitive grants to small and very small establishments, state inspected facilities, custom exempt facilities, or new small-scale slaughter facilities for activities related to Covid-19 response and recovery, and would authorize a new $10 million grant program for colleges and universities to establish or expand meat processing training programs and a new $10 million grant program for small and very small establishments or nongovernmental organizations to offset the cost of training new meat processors.
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Expanding Markets for State-Inspected Meat Processors Act H.R.7162Rep. Cheney (R-WY). The bill would allow only meat, not poultry, products inspected by Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) approved state Meat and Poultry Inspection (MPI) programs to be sold across state lines.
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New Markets for State-Inspected Meat and Poultry S.2814Sen. Rounds (R-SD)The bill would amend the federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to allow the interstate sale of state-inspected meat and poultry.
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Farm Workforce Modernization Act H.R.1603
Rep. Pancetta (D-CA), Lofgren (D-CA)
The bill would stabilize the hired farm workforce by providing a path to legal status for undocumented immigrant farmworkers, modernize the system of temporary farmworkers, and provide for fair wages and workplace conditions.
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Sustainable Agriculture Research ActH.R.4134Reps. Neguse (D-CA), Davis (R-IL)The bill would provide federal support for sustainable agriculture and soil research through the Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority (AGARDA) and would authorize AGARDA to address agricultural carbon sequestration and reduction of admissions.
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U.S. Citizenship ActH.R.1177Rep. Sanchez (D-CA)The bill would reverse many of the immigration-related executive actions of the last Administration, provide a path to legal residence and eventual citizenship for as many as 11 million undocumented immigrants, including DACA and Temporary Protected Status beneficiaries, essential workers in a non-immigrant status, and agricultural laborers; recreate the V visa program to allow families to await immigrant visa approval together in the US; end country-specific visa annual maximums; grant immediate relative status to spouses and children of green card holders.
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Healthy Food Access for All AmericansS.786Sens. Warner (D-VA), Moran (R-KS), Casey (D-PA), Capito (R-WV)/H.R.1717 Rep. Ryan (D-OH)The bill would provide incentives, through tax credits and grants, to food providers to create or expand access to healthy foods in underserved, low-access, food desert communities that have a poverty rate of 20 percent or higher or a medium family income of less than 80 percent of the median for a state or metro area.
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Justice for Black Farmers ActS.300Sens. Booker (D-NJ), Warren (D-MA), Gillibrand
(D-NY), Warnock (D-GA		The bill would enact policies to end discrimination in the USDA, protect remaining Black
farmers from losing their land, provide land grants to create a new generation of Black
farmers and restore the land base that has been lost, and implement systemic reforms to
help family farmers.
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Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color ActS.278Sens. Warnock (D-GA), Stabenow (D-MI).
Booker (D-NJ), Blumenthal (D-CT)		To require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide assistance for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers and socially disadvantaged groups, and for other purposes.
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Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform ActS.225Sens. Klobuchar (D-
MN), Booker (D-NJ), Blumenthal (D-CT), Markey(D-MA), Schatz (D-HI)/H.R.)		To reform the antitrust laws to better protect competition in the American economy, to amend the Clayton Act to modify the standard for an unlawful acquisition, to deter anticompetitive exclusionary conduct that harms competition and consumers, to enhance the ability of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission to enforce the antitrust laws, and for other purposes.
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Farm System Reform ActS.3221/H.R.6718Sen. Booker (D-NJ)/Rep. Khanna (D-CA)Places moratorium on large CAFOs by 2040, provides voluntary buyout program for factory farmers to transition out, holds large meatpackers responsible for externalities, strengthens Packers & Stockyards Act, and allows only meat from USA to be labeled "Product of USA"
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Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review ActS.1596/H.R.2933Sen. Booker (D-NJ)/Rep. Pocan (D-WI)Places moratorium on certain acquisitions between large agricultural and retail-related businesses
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Safe Line Speeds in COVID-19 ActS.4338/H.R.7521Sen. Booker (D-NJ)/Rep. Fudge (D-OH)Prohibits meat processing and slaughter facilities from operating at dangerously high speeds that prevent social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Keep Finfish Free ActH.R.2467Rep. Young (R-AK)Prohibits the Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce from authorizing commercial finfish aquaculture operations in federal waters
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Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Pilot ActH.R.6774Rep. McGovern (D-MA)Requires Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to establish demonstration program to allow hospitals to provide medically tailored, home-delivered meals to Medicare beneficiaries who have diet-impacted disease
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Local Food Assistance and Resilient Markets ActS.4140Sen. Booker (D-NJ)Provides $500 million for LAMP for COVID response grants, with $100 million dedicated to organizations that serve historically underserved producers. It would also temporarily waive matching fund requirements for all LAMP programs, BFRDP, Community Food Projects Grants, the farm to school grant program and reduce the match requirement for GusNIP. The bill would also provide additional funding for grants through the Specialty Crop Block Grants Program, expand the existing FSA Microloan program and expand SNAP EBT Online from a pilot to a national program and provide associated technical assistance funding
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Food Supply Protection ActS.3840Sen. Stabenow (D-MI)Includes infrastructure grants to food banks and nonprofits to increase capacity and address growing demand, as well as grants to support new food partnerships that increase donations to food banks and decrease food waste through funding to states and tribes to purchase surplus food and USDA Donation Reimbursement Program
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Expanding SNAP Options ActS.4202/H.R.7535Sen. Durbin (D-IL)/Rep. Kelly (D-IL)Expand online SNAP sales to all states and provide information technology investments and technical assistance to expand online SNAP to more authorized retailers, including direct market farmers and retailers beyond small group of large national chains
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Farmers-Feeding-Families Coronavirus Response ActS.3655/H.R.6725Sen. Casey (D-PA)/Rep. Schrier (D-WA)Bolsters ability of food banks and food assistance programs to meet needs of growing numbers of food insecure, while also providing much needed additional funding for purchases from small and medium farmers, by providing funds directly to States and state agencies and their food-bank partners
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Local Agriculture Market Program Cost-share WaiverH.R 6682Rep. Kuster (D-NH)Waives matching funds requirement for the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program and Value Added Producer Grant program in FY19, FY20 and FY21
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Food Assistance for Kids and Families During COVID-19 ActS.3563/H.R.6445Sen. Casey (D-PA)/Rep. Hayes (D-CT)Authorizes public-private partnerships between USDA, authorized retailers and community based organizations to support food delivery to SNAP users and provide funding to support grocery delivery for program participants who are seniors, immunocompromised individuals and others unable to travel safely to a retail food outlet
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Farm to Fridge ActH.R.7035Rep. Meng (D-NY)Provide grant funding through Local Agriculture Market Program (LAMP) to farmers, farmers markets and related organizations to develop alternative marketing projects to respond to COVID-19
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Food and Farm Emergency Assistance ActH.R.7656Rep. Schrier (D-WA)Provides quick grants with simple applications for COVID-19 related costs, including PPE, temperature screening, online sales adaptation, infrastructure supporting social distancing, etc. for farmers, ranchers, farmers’ markets, small and very small processors, food hubs, and other food businesses
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Small Packer Overtime and Holiday Fee Relief COVID-19S.3797/H.R.6977Sen. Moran (R-KS)/Rep. Johnson (R-SD)Allows USDA to pay overtime fee for inspectors for small plants
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Relief for America’s Small Farmers ActS.3602/H.R.6683Sen. Gillibrand (D-NY)/Rep. Maloney (D-NY)Forgives USDA FSA direct loan debt up to $250,000 for farmers with adjusted gross income up to $300,000
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Paycheck Protection for Producers ActS.3918/H.R.7175Sen. Thune (R-SD)/Rep. Kind (D-WI)Makes improvements to SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to ensure farmers who do not have income reported on their Schedule F are still deemed eligible for a PPP loan
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Agriculture Resilience ActH.R.5861Rep. Pingree (D-ME)Increases climate change research within agriculture, improves soil health, protects existing farmland, supports pasture-based livestock systems, boosts investments in on-farm energy initiatives, reduces food waste
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Small Farm to School ActH.R.7831Rep. Delgado (D-NY)Pilot program where public schools would be reimbursed at a higher rate for sourcing school lunches from small farmers under the National School Lunch Program
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Food Supply Protection ActS.3840Sen. Stabenow (D-MI)Provides eligible organizations with grants that can be used for additional cold storage and refrigeration, transportation, personal protective equipment, rental costs, and additional use of commercial and community infrastructure
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Protect America's Children from Pesticides ActS.921Sen. Udall (D-NM)Bans some of the most damaging pesticides scientifically known to cause significant harm to people and the environment
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Pandemic Child Hunger Prevention ActH.R.7887Rep. Scott (D-VA)Makes all students eligible for free school meals during the 2020-2021 school year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
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Local and Regional Farmer and Market Support ActH.R.8096Rep. Adams (D-NC)Creates an alternative coronavirus relief payment program for farmers that sell in local and regional markets based on their historic revenue, rather than price loss; provides emergency response grants for farmers markets and local food enterprises to implement public health protections and coronavirus-smart marketing practices; provides emergency response grants to direct marketing farmers to help them respond to shifting markets and adopt new socially-distant practices and sales models; supports racial equity by prioritizing assistance to BIPOC farmers and low-income communities of color through set-asides; provides robust outreach and technical assistance to BIPOC farmers and ranchers
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Farm Workforce Modernization ActH.R.5038Rep. Lofgren (D-CA)Makes meaningful reforms to the H-2A agricultural guestworker program and creates a first-of-its-kind, merit-based visa program specifically designed for the nation’s agricultural sector
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Strengthening Local Processing ActRep.Pingree (D-ME)/ Rep. Fortenberry (R-NE)Increases the federal share of costs for state inspection from 50% to 65% and for Cooperative Interstate Shipment (CIS) facilities from 60% to 80%, thus encouraging more states to operate state inspection programs and participate in CIS.
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