1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Conservation and Innovative Climate Partnership Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) farmers and producers engage in innovative climate and conservation practices that may include a wide variety of activities, such as— (A) carbon retention or carbon sequestration cropping practices; (B) resource conserving crop rotation; (C) alley cropping; (D) integrated livestock-crop systems; (E) advanced grazing management; (F) improved forestry or agroforestry management; and (G) the insertion of buffers or saturated buffers; (2) the purpose of implementing innovative climate and conservation practices on farm or ranch land is to increase sustainability through— (A) improved soil health and tilth; (B) improved water quality, quantity, and management; (C) improved nutrient management; (D) reduction in tillage; or (E) wildlife promotion and management; and (3) the benefits of engaging in innovative climate and conservation practices include— (A) a reduction of greenhouse gases emissions, including carbon dioxide, methane, sulfur dioxide, and nitrous oxide; (B) carbon sequestration; (C) soil health improvement; and (D) reduced exposure to climate-related risk. 3. Conservation and innovative climate partnership competitive grant program (a) In general Subtitle H of title XVI of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 is amended by inserting after section 1672 ( 7 U.S.C. 5925 ) the following: 1672A. Conservation and innovative climate partnership competitive grant program (a) Definitions In this section: (1) 1862 Institution; 1890 Institution The terms 1862 Institution and 1890 Institution have the meanings given those terms in section 2 of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 ( 7 U.S.C. 7601 ). (2) 1994 Institution The term 1994 Institution has the meaning given the term in section 532 of the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 ( 7 U.S.C. 301 note