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Bill > HB2730
OR HB2730
Relating to incentives for beginning agricultural operators; declaring an emergency.
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Introduced
01/13/2025
01/13/2025
In Committee
04/03/2025
04/03/2025
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
Introduced Session
2025 Legislative Measures
Bill Summary
The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates a new program to encourage beginning farmers and ranchers and creates a new fund for the program. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Digest: The Act creates a new program to encourage beginning farmers and ranchers. The Act creates a new fund for the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.3). Establishes a beginning farmer and rancher incentive program in the State Department of Ag- riculture. Requires the department to establish types of incentives to provide to beginning farmers and ranchers. Establishes the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Incentive Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the department for purposes of the incentive program. Appropriates moneys for deposit into the fund. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
AI Summary
This bill establishes a new beginning farmer and rancher incentive program within the State Department of Agriculture designed to support new agricultural operators. The program will provide various types of assistance, including loan repayment subsidies, stipends, and scholarships for students in farming and ranching training programs. The department will create rules defining participant eligibility, program terms, and funding distribution, with a priority system for allocating resources if funds are insufficient. A new Beginning Farmer and Rancher Incentive Fund will be created in the State Treasury, which will receive $400,000 from the General Fund for the 2025-2027 biennium, as well as potential gifts, grants, and contributions from public and private sources. The department may collaborate with public or private entities to administer the program and must decide scholarship distributions by April 1 each academic year. The bill includes an emergency clause, meaning it will take effect immediately upon passage, with the goal of supporting new agricultural professionals and promoting agricultural development in the state.
Committee Categories
Agriculture and Natural Resources, Budget and Finance
Sponsors (22)
Court Boice (R)*,
Mark Owens (R)*,
Anna Scharf (R)*,
Shelly Boshart Davis (R),
Vikki Breese-Iverson (R),
Willy Chotzen (D),
Ed Diehl (R),
Lucetta Elmer (R),
Paul Evans (D),
Sarah Finger McDonald (D),
Mark Gamba (D),
Jeff Helfrich (R),
Ken Helm (D),
Bobby Levy (R),
John Lively (D),
Emily McIntire (R),
Susan McLain (D),
Courtney Neron Misslin (D),
Virgle Osborne (R),
Hai Pham (D),
Greg Smith (R),
Jules Walters (D),
Last Action
Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference. (on 04/03/2025)
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