The House will vote this week on a pair of bipartisan bills aimed at improving disaster response programs for small businesses, farmers and foresters.
The chamber is set to take up H.R. 4238, the “Disaster Loan Accountability and Reform Act,” and S. 629, the “Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act.”
The latter, from Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), would amend a pair of Agriculture Department programs — the Emergency Conservation Program and Emergency Forest Restoration Program — to speed payments to agricultural producers and forest land owners following natural disasters.
“We need to streamline the recovery process, so we can restore agricultural land more quickly following emergencies like these tragic wildfires,” Fischer said in March, when the bill passed the Senate via unanimous consent.
