119th Congress Agriculture and Food
H.R. 5097: To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program under which the Secretary will award grants to specialty crop producers to acquire certain equipment and provide training with respect to the use of such equipment.
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Summary
This bill directs the Agricultural Marketing Service to establish a grant program for commercial specialty crop producers to acquire equipment and provide related training.
Funds must be used for mechanized or automated systems and tools that increase the efficiency of a task or reduce human labor for a specific activity (e.g., low-dust harvesting tools and equipment, sorting machines, and crop monitoring and analytics equipment and tools).
The bill includes a minimum 50% cost-sharing requirement.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Roll calls
No roll call votes have been held on this bill.
Amendments
No amendments were offered to this bill.
Cosponsors
- Julia Brownley D-CAOriginal
- Jim Costa D-CAOriginal
- Josh Harder D-CAOriginal
- Doug LaMalfa R-CAOriginal
- Jimmy Panetta D-CAOriginal
- Eugene Vindman D-VA
- Adam Gray D-CA
- Andrea Salinas D-OR
Who scored on this bill
- 1David Valadao SponsorDrew cross-party cosponsors, introduced2 events+6
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History
- Introduced in the House by David Valadao.
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- Introduced in House
- Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.