119th Congress · introduced in the Senate · Dec 16, 2025
EQIP Improvement Act of 2025
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Latest action (Dec 16, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
View on Congress.govPolicy area: Agriculture and Food
Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in Senate (Dec 16, 2025)
EQIP Improvement Act of 2025
This bill modifies payment limitations and reduces the federal cost share and required payments for certain projects authorized under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). As background, this Department of Agriculture program provides technical and financial assistance to agricultural producers and forest landowners to address natural resource concerns.
Specifically, the bill limits the total payments available to a person or legal entity under EQIP to $150,000 over a specified five-year period. (A $450,000 statutory limit was in effect for FY2019-FY2024, and a regulatory contract limit of $450,000 currently applies.)
The bill also reduces the maximum federal cost share to 40% (from 75%) for the costs associated with planning, installation, or maintenance for specified conservation practices (e.g., access roads, dams, and waste storage facilities) and removes a requirement that 50% of EQIP funding for payments go to practices related to livestock production.
Includes amendment, cloture, and procedural votes. Each is labeled with its exact question; only a passage question is a vote to pass the bill.
No recorded roll calls on this bill in coverage.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Introduced in Senate
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NATURE CONSERVANCY · lobbying firm or registrant: THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 20, 2026 · issue area: Agriculture
$460,000
Spent on own lobbying
…ion Program Reauthorization Act of 2025 (H.R.3351/S. 1662) CRP Improvement and Flexibility Act of 2025 (H.R.5111/S.2608) EQIP Improvement Act of 2025 (H.R.4133/S.3498) Farmer to Farmer Education Act (S.1769) Farmers Lifeline Options for Overcoming Disasters (FLOOD) Act (H.R.9927/S.5115) Fix Our Forests Act (H.R.471/S.1462) F…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP · lobbying firm or registrant: ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP
2026 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026) · posted Aug 7, 2026 · issue area: Agriculture
$340,000
Spent on own lobbying
House and Senate Farm Bills ( HR 7567 in the House, no bill # in the Senate). AFFIRM Act - S.4215 S.3498 - EQIP Improvement Act of 2025 H.R.4133 - EQIP Improvement Act of 2025 H.R.6476 - Relief for Farmers Hit with PFAS Act H.R.4296 - CROP for Farming Act
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
FARM ACTION FUND · lobbying firm or registrant: FARM ACTION FUND
2026 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2026 – Mar 31, 2026) · posted Apr 20, 2026 · issue area: Agriculture
$10,000
Spent on own lobbying
…gthening Local Processing Act (S.1509 and H.R.3076), Strengthening Local Food Security Act (S.2338), Save Our Small Farms Act (H.R.2435), EQIP Improvement Act (S.3498), Food Security and Farm Protection Act (S.1326), and Save Our Bacon Act (H.R.4673).
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing