Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Growing Access To Environmental Sustainability Act” or the “GATES Act”.
Growing Access To Environmental Sustainability Act
A BILL
To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to establish an exception to certain payment limitations in the case of person or legal entity that derives income from agriculture, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Exception for income derived from agriculture
Section 1001D(b) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308–3a(b)) is amended—
in paragraph (1), by striking “paragraph (3)” and inserting “paragraphs (3) and (4)”; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(4) Exception
“(A) In general—In the case of an excepted payment or benefit, the limitation established by paragraph (1) shall not apply to a person or legal entity during a crop, fiscal, or program year, as appropriate, if greater than or equal to 75 percent of the average adjusted gross income of the person or each individual comprising the legal entity derives from farming, ranching, or forestry activities and the person or legal entity provides to the Secretary documentation demonstrating such average adjusted gross income.
“(B) Excepted payment or benefit—For purposes of this paragraph, the term excepted payment or benefit means a payment or benefit described in paragraph (2)(C).”