118th Congress · HOUSE BILLBILL

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.

“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.”

Agriculture and food

Introduced Jul 27, 2023

Last action Sep 19, 2023

Pipeline · Bill → Law

Step 1

Introduced

Jul 27, 2023

Step 2

Referred

Sep 19, 2023

Agriculture

Step 3

Committee

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House floor

Step 5

Senate

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Resolve Changes

Step 7

Signed

SummaryCRS 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.

Provisions · 1 sectionsIntroduced in House

Timeline · 3 actions

Sep 19, 2023

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

Jul 27, 2023

Introduced in House

Jul 27, 2023

Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.