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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…

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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.

Introduced: September 26, 2023 Introduced by: Valadao, David G. Republican · California See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Became law
Sep 19, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.
Jul 27, 2023
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Jul 27, 2023
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

What's happening now September 19, 2023

Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Lobbying activity 6

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 Cosponsors 8
All 8 Democratic 7
D
Carbajal, Salud O.
California · Apr 29, 2024
 D
Ruiz, Raul
California · Apr 18, 2024
 D
Salinas, Andrea
Oregon · Feb 1, 2024
 D
Brownley, Julia
California · Nov 2, 2023
Duarte, John
· Sep 26, 2023
 D
Harder, Josh
California · Sep 26, 2023
 D
Costa, Jim
California · Jul 27, 2023
 D
Panetta, Jimmy
California · Jul 27, 2023
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5062: 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.. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-5062/
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"H.R. 5062: 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.." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-5062/.
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H.R. 5062, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-5062/.
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[H.R. 5062: 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.](https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-5062/)
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