Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
Farmers Lifeline Options for Overcoming Disasters (FLOOD) Act
A Democratic bill with 1 Republican cosponsor · See the cosponsor
Last activity — Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
In committee
Introduced and handed to a committee in the chamber it started in.
The committee holds it, and most bills are never heard from again. A hearing or a committee vote would be news; silence is the usual outcome, and it kills the bill without anyone voting against it.
Its path through Congress
- Introduced
- In Committee
What this bill would do
This bill is known as the Farmers Lifeline Options for Overcoming Disasters (FLOOD) Act. It seeks to amend the Food Security Act of 1985. The primary goal is to add the emergency watershed program to the list of covered programs for the regional conservation partnership program. This change specifically includes the emergency watershed protection measures described in section 403 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978.
Yes· 3 of 5
- Scored +6
Would farmers be better off under this?
The bill provides farmers with expanded access to emergency watershed protection through regional conservation partnerships.
- Scored +5
Does this better protect air, water and wildlife?
The bill expands the scope of the regional conservation partnership program to include emergency watershed protection measures.
- Scored +4
Would people in rural areas be better off under this?
The expansion of watershed protection programs benefits the environmental stability of rural communities.
The opposite
No question was scored the opposite.
Who it would affect, and how
Potential Positive Impacts for People
- Expansion of Conservation Partnerships: By adding the emergency watershed program as a covered program, the bill allows for different types of conservation efforts to be carried out through the regional conservation partnership program (Section 2).
Potential Negative Impacts for People
- No negative impacts are explicitly stated in the text provided.
Groups and Interests Ranking
Every group the model scored this bill for, from -10 to +10. Tap or hover a score for the reason it gave.
- Demographic And Interest Groups
- Would farmers be better off under this? — The bill provides farmers with expanded access to emergency watershed protection through regional conservation partnerships. Would people in rural areas be better off under this? — The expansion of watershed protection programs benefits the environmental stability of rural communities. Would business owners be better off under this? — The inclusion of emergency watershed protection provides better risk mitigation for those operating agricultural businesses.
- Environment Energy And Infrastructure
- Does this better protect air, water and wildlife? — The bill expands the scope of the regional conservation partnership program to include emergency watershed protection measures. Does this invest in rural communities? — By including emergency watershed protection in conservation partnerships, the bill provides better resource management for rural agricultural land.
- 7/23/2026
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
- 1 Cosponsor added.
- Introduced in Senate
One bill Congress.gov lists as related to this one — companions in the other chamber, earlier versions, and bills this one absorbed or was folded into.
James JusticeRepublican · West Virginia