Title: Growing American Food Exports Act of 2018
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Growing American Food Exports Act of 2018
This bill amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to reauthorize through FY2023 and modify the Department of Agriculture Biotechnology and Agricultural Trade Program.
The purpose of the program is to remove, resolve, or mitigate significant regulatory nontariff barriers to the export of U.S. agricultural commodities into foreign markets through policy advocacy and certain targeted projects.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3103 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3103

To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to 
   improve and reauthorize the Biotechnology and Agricultural Trade 
                                Program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 21, 2018

 Mr. Young (for himself, Mrs. McCaskill, Mr. Blunt, and Mr. Donnelly) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
           Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to 
   improve and reauthorize the Biotechnology and Agricultural Trade 
                                Program.

    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 ``Growing American Food Exports Act of 
2018''.

SEC. 2. BIOTECHNOLOGY AND AGRICULTURAL TRADE PROGRAM.

    Section 1543A of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act 
of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5679) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``the biotechnology'' 
        and all that follows through the period at the end and 
        inserting ``of Agriculture a program to be known as the 
        `Biotechnology and Agricultural Trade Program'.'';
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by striking ``program'' and inserting 
                        ``Biotechnology and Agricultural Trade 
                        Program''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``public and private 
                        sector projects funded by grants'' and 
                        inserting ``policy advocacy and targeted 
                        projects'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``or 
                        new agricultural production technologies'' 
                        after ``biotechnology''; and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (D), by striking 
                        ``or'' at the end; and
                    (C) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(2) issues relating to United States agricultural 
        commodities produced with the use of biotechnology or new 
        agricultural production technologies; or
            ``(3) advocacy for science-based regulation in foreign 
        markets of biotechnology or new agricultural production 
        technologies.''; and
            (3) in subsection (d), by striking ``$6,000,000 for each of 
        fiscal years 2002 through 2007'' and inserting ``$2,000,000 for 
        each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023''.
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