Creates a Healthy Soil Program to increase soil organic matter through grants, education, training workshops, and outreach.
Would establish a tax credit for farmers who maximize carbon sequestration potential through a "carbon farming" land management strategy.
State-backed verification of carbon offsets, which supports a voluntary offset programs in agriculture, forestry, and geologic sequestration.
Establishes multiple assistance programs to support regenerative farming practices and improve soil quality.
Requires a state agency to recommend financial incentives for farmers to improve soil health.
Requires the creation of a pollinator friendly designation program, promulgating regulations and a scorecard.
Requires that solar developers claiming their solar site is beneficial to pollinators and birds are assessed to address specific planting and management designs.
Requires the establishment of a native vegetation habitat and pollinator management plan that can be used by solar operators to claim they are following voluntary site management practices.
Requires the Illinois Dept. of Natural resources to create a scorecard by which a solar site can claim to be pollinator friendly.
Requires the development of minimum guidelines (via scorecard) for vegetation management plans used by those who make public claim that their property is pollinator friendly or provides protections to pollinators.