# H.R. 1011 (119th): Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025

Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025 This bill revises the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) and the Emergency Forest Restoration Program (EFRP) to expand eligibility for payments to agricultural producers and owners of forest land impacted by natural disasters. The bill also provides additional options to receive an advance on cost-sharing payments before carrying out emergency measures. The bill expands advance ECP payments to include payments for the rehabilitation of farmland or to repair or replace a farmland or conservation structure. Producers may receive an advance on cost-sharing payments for 75% of the cost of the replacement or rehabilitation and 50% of the cost of the repair. Current law limits advanced cost-sharing payments to 25% of the cost of the repair or replacement of fencing. The bill also expands eligibility for payments under ECP to include emergency measures to address damages caused by a wildfire that is not caused naturally (including a wildfire that is caused by the federal government), if the damage is caused by the spread of the wildfire due to natural causes. Under EFRP, the bill allows owners of nonindustrial private forest land impacted by a natural disaster to receive an advance on cost-sharing payments for up to 75% of the cost of the emergency measures. Recipients must use the funds within 180 days after the funds are disbursed. Currently, advance payments are not available under the program.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: agriculture. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: conservation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: disaster_relief. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: environmental_stewardship. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: forestry. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 109: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill combines a real good, relief for producers and forest owners harmed by natural disasters and support for land stewardship, with prudential concerns about expanded federal payments, advance-payment mechanics, and eligibility for federally caused wildfire damage. It does not directly advance moral harm or directly restrain a named evil, so the classification is mixed rather than good or evil.
Theological note: The measure bears on the duty to care for the afflicted and to steward land faithfully, since it concerns relief for farmers and forest owners after disasters and the repair of conservation structures. It also raises the questions of equitable and accountable use of public funds, including eligibility for damage from federally caused fires. These are matters of prudential judgment under general equity rather than clear moral verdicts on their face.

## Recorded votes

Roll 109: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 395 · Nay 10 · Other 26.

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