I 
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 tech-
nology roadmap, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SMART AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGY 
ROADMAP. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 6402(g)(1) of the Farm 
Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 
1632b(g)(1)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘each fiscal year, the Secretary 
shall use $300,000’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘each fiscal year, the Secretary shall— 
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‘‘(A) use $300,000’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (A) (as so designated), by 
striking the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; 
and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph: 
‘‘(B) use $500,000 to support a public-pri-
vate partnership that would produce, and up-
date, a smart agriculture industry technology 
roadmap.’’. 
(b) DEFINITION.—Section 6402(g) of the Farm Se-
curity and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 
1632b(g)) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) SMART
AGRICULTURE
INDUSTRY
TECH-
NOLOGY ROADMAP DEFINED.—In this section, the 
term ‘smart agriculture industry technology road-
map’ means a set of policies designed to— 
‘‘(A) guide the future development of tech-
nology in the agriculture industry; and 
‘‘(B) help align the efforts of the United 
States agriculture industry, including agricul-
tural producers, the research community (in-
cluding the public-private partnership referred 
to in paragraph (1) and colleges and univer-
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sities (as defined in section 1404 of the Na-
tional Agricultural Research, Extension, and 
Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 1303)), 
and other members of the agriculture commu-
nity to increase efforts of the United States to 
become the global leader in smart farming and 
agriculture.’’. 
(c) REPORT.—Section 6402(h)(2)(A) of the Farm 
Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 
1632b(h)(2)(A)) is amended by inserting ‘‘including the 
smart agriculture technology roadmap’’ after ‘‘Program’’. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
6402(i) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act 
of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1632b(i)) is amended by striking 
‘‘$1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018’’ 
and inserting ‘‘$1,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 
through 2023’’. 
(e) TECHNICAL CORRECTION.—Section 6402(g)(2) of 
the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 
U.S.C. 1632b(g)(2)) is amended by striking ‘‘subpara-
graph (A)’’ and inserting ‘‘subparagraph (A) or (B) of 
paragraph (1)’’. 
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