HR 7110
115th Congress
House
Agriculture and Food
Agricultural practices and innovations
Fruit and vegetables
Horticulture and plants
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Specialty Crop Mechanization Prize Challenge of 2018
Introduced: October 30, 2018
Introduced by:
Panetta, Jimmy
Democratic
· California
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 12, 2018
Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.
Oct 30, 2018
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Oct 30, 2018
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Specialty Crop Mechanization Prize Challenge of 2018
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a Specialty Crop Mechanization Challenges program to carry out prize competitions for the mechanization of specialty crop production. (Specialty crops are fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, and horticulture and nursery crops, including floriculture.)
The program must include at least one prize competition for solutions to automate or alleviate stresses on the workforce during each of the following:
- the planting of specialty crops,
- tasks associated with the management of specialty crops,
- the harvesting of specialty crops, and
- processing and preparing specialty crops for distribution.
USDA must assemble prize committees to determine the scope, details, requirements, judging criteria, and incentives for each competition.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.
Committees of jurisdiction
2
Cosponsors
1