Committee backs bill to expand technical assistance under Healthy Soils program
AB 947 would broaden eligible technical assistance, allow equipment-sharing costs and increase flexibility for nonprofits working with farmers to access climate-smart grants; the committee passed the measure to Appropriations.
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Assemblymember Connolly presented AB 947 to refine the Climate Smart/Healthy Soils technical-assistance program at CDFA based on farmer input. The bill would expand allowable technical assistance to include trainings, conservation planning, grant-writing support, matching-funding coordination, equipment-sharing costs and outcome monitoring, and would give CDFA flexibility to support farming nonprofits that provide assistance.
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