America Grows Act of 2021
Bill: S.1371 | Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. (D-IL)
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
America Grows Act of 2021
This bill permanently funds several agencies that perform agriculture research.
The bill provides specified funding for the following agencies within the Department of Agriculture:
The bill exempts the funding from sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.
It also exempts the budgetary effects of the funding from the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO) and the Senate PAYGO rule.

To prioritize funding for an expanded and sustained national investment 
                        in agriculture research.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``America Grows Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. FUNDING.

    (a) In General.--There is appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to each funding recipient 
described in subsection (b) for the programs, projects, and activities 
of such funding recipient, the following amounts:
            (1) For fiscal year 2022, the amount equal to 105 percent 
        of the amount of new budget authority made available in 
        appropriation Acts for that funding recipient for fiscal year 
        2021, increased by the percentage increase (if any), during 
        fiscal year 2021, in the Consumer Price Index for all urban 
        consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
            (2) For each of fiscal years 2023 through 2031, the amount 
        equal to 105 percent of the amount appropriated to that funding 
        recipient under this subsection for the previous fiscal year, 
        increased by the percentage increase (if any), during such 
        previous fiscal year, in the Consumer Price Index for all urban 
        consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
            (3) For fiscal year 2032, and each fiscal year thereafter, 
        the amount appropriated under this paragraph for the previous 
        fiscal year, increased by the percentage increase (if any), 
        during such previous fiscal year, in the Consumer Price Index 
        for all urban consumers published by the Bureau of Labor 
        Statistics.
    (b) Funding Recipients Described.--The funding recipients described 
in this subsection are--
            (1) the Agricultural Research Service;
            (2) the Economic Research Service;
            (3) the National Agricultural Statistics Service; and
            (4) the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
    (c) Availability.--Each amount appropriated under subsection (a) 
shall remain available for obligation through the last day of the 
fiscal year for which such amount is appropriated.

SEC. 3. EXEMPTION FROM SEQUESTRATION.

    (a) In General.--Section 255(g)(1)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 905(g)(1)(A)) is 
amended by inserting after ``Advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund 
and Other Funds (16-0327-0-1-600).'' the following:
                            ``Appropriations made available under 
                        section 2(a) of the America Grows Act of 
                        2021.''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to any sequestration order issued under the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 et seq.) on or 
after the date of enactment of this Act.

SEC. 4. BUDGETARY EFFECTS.

    (a) Statutory PAYGO Scorecards.--The budgetary effects of this Act 
shall not be entered on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to 
section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 
933(d)).
    (b) Senate PAYGO Scorecards.--The budgetary effects of this Act 
shall not be entered on any PAYGO scorecard maintained for purposes of 
section 4106 of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress).
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