HR 8527 · 117th Congress 2021–2023, ended

Conservation Opportunity and Voluntary Environment Resilience Program Act

Fact sheet

Latest action · Oct 4, 2022 Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedJul 27, 2022
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Conservation Opportunity and Voluntary Environment Resilience Program Act or the COVER Act

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to establish a Good Steward Cover Crop Program to provide producers additional premium subsidies when they plant cover crops.

Additionally, the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation must carry out a pilot program under which a producer who uses innovative soil health practices may receive additional premium subsidies on multi-peril crop insurance.

Cosponsors 1

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jul 27, 2022.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-IACynthia AxneOriginalJul 27, 2022

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Oct 4, 2022Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
  2. Jul 27, 2022Introduced in House
  3. Jul 27, 2022Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Jul 27, 2022Introduced in House

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