YourVoice.Now Summary
Transparency & AccountabilityUSDA would help poor rural towns and border areas use its rural aid programs, with a yearly public report.
Transparency & Accountability
Each year, the Agriculture Department would have to post a report on how its help changed struggling rural areas. It also goes to the farm committees in Congress.
More about this bill
Most people would not notice this bill directly. It aims to help poor rural towns use rural aid programs run by the farm agency. Within one year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) would have to give hands-on help to local groups in those towns. These include local governments, co-ops, shops, clinics, libraries, schools, and nonprofits. The help is for rural places that USDA finds are poor or struggling. It also covers places near the Mexico border that lack good homes or water and sewer service. The bill sets no dollar amount. Starting one year after it passes, USDA must post a yearly public report on how the help worked.
Congressional Summary
Rural Uplift and Revitalization Assistance Act This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide technical assistance in geographically underserved and distressed areas for USDA rural development programs. Specifically, USDA must provide (directly or through cooperative agreements) technical assistance and strengthen local capacity to improve USDA rural development program access for local partners (e.g., local governments, businesses, and nonprofit organizations) in geographically underserved and distressed areas. Under the bill, a geographically underserved and distressed area means a rural area (1) in a socially vulnerable community; (2) in a persistent poverty county; (3) in an economically distressed area; or (4) that lacks adequate water services, sewer services, or decent housing in any region near the border between the United States and Mexico. On an annual basis, USDA must submit to Congress (and make publicly available) a report on how the provision of technical assistance under this bill has affected geographically underserved and distressed areas.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-12-04
- Date Added
- 2026-10-02
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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