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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5449 

To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to support 

a smart agriculture industry technology roadmap, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 10, 2018 

Mr. SOTO introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Agriculture 

A BILL 

To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act 

of 2002 to support a smart agriculture industry technology roadmap, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SMART AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGY 

4 ROADMAP. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 6402(g)(1) of the Farm 

6 Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 

7 1632b(g)(1)) is amended— 

8 (1) by striking ‘‘each fiscal year, the Secretary 

9 shall use $300,000’’ and inserting the following: 

10 ‘‘each fiscal year, the Secretary shall— 


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1 ‘‘(A) use $300,000’’; 

2 (2) in subparagraph (A) (as so designated), by 

3 striking the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; 

4 and 

5 (3) by adding at the end the following new sub6 paragraph: 

7 ‘‘(B) use $500,000 to support a public-pri8 vate partnership that would produce, and up9 date, a smart agriculture industry technology 

10 roadmap.’’. 

11 (b) DEFINITION.—Section 6402(g) of the Farm Se12 curity and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 

13 1632b(g)) is amended by adding at the end the following 

14 new paragraph: 

15 ‘‘(3) SMART AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY TECH16 NOLOGY ROADMAP DEFINED.—In this section, the 

17 term ‘smart agriculture industry technology road18 map’ means a set of policies designed to— 

19 ‘‘(A) guide the future development of tech20 nology in the agriculture industry; and 

21 ‘‘(B) help align the efforts of the United 

22 States agriculture industry, including agricul23 tural producers, the research community (in24 cluding the public-private partnership referred 

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1 sities (as defined in section 1404 of the Na2 tional Agricultural Research, Extension, and 

3 Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 1303)), 

4 and other members of the agriculture commu5 nity to increase efforts of the United States to 

6 become the global leader in smart farming and 

7 agriculture.’’. 

8 (c) REPORT.—Section 6402(h)(2)(A) of the Farm 

9 Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 

10 1632b(h)(2)(A)) is amended by inserting ‘‘including the 

11 smart agriculture technology roadmap’’ after ‘‘Program’’. 

12 (d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 

13 6402(i) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act 

14 of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1632b(i)) is amended by striking 

15 ‘‘$1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018’’ 

16 and inserting ‘‘$1,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 

17 through 2023’’. 

18 (e) TECHNICAL CORRECTION.—Section 6402(g)(2) of 

19 the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 

20 U.S.C. 1632b(g)(2)) is amended by striking ‘‘subpara21 graph (A)’’ and inserting ‘‘subparagraph (A) or (B) of 

22 paragraph (1)’’. 

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