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118th Congress Agriculture and Food

S. 1628: America Grows Act of 2023

Introduced

  1. Introduced (completed)May 16, 2023
  2. Passed Senate (not reached)
  3. Passed House (not reached)
  4. To the President (not reached)
  5. Became law (not reached)

Summary

Introduced in Senate, May 16, 2023

This bill permanently funds several agencies that perform agriculture research.

The bill provides specified funding for the following agencies within the Department of Agriculture:

  • the Agricultural Research Service,
  • the Economic Research Service,
  • the National Agricultural Statistics Service, and
  • the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
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The bill exempts the funding from sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.

It also exempts the budgetary effects of the funding from the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO) and the Senate PAYGO rule.

Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.

Roll calls

0 votes on this bill

No roll call votes have been held on this bill.

Amendments

0 offered

No amendments were offered to this bill.

Cosponsors

1

Bipartisan support.

Who scored on this bill

6 points earned
  1. 1Richard Durbin D-IL SponsorDrew cross-party cosponsors, introduced2 events+6
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History

  1. May 16, 2023Introduced in the Senate by Richard Durbin.
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  1. May 16, 2023Introduced in Senate
  2. May 16, 2023Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S1681)