Title: To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to support a smart agriculture industry technology roadmap, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
This bill amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to: (1) reauthorize the Agriculture Innovation Center Demonstration Program through FY2023, and (2) require the Department of Agriculture to use $500,000 of the funds provided each year for the program to support a public-private partnership to produce and update a smart agriculture industry technology roadmap.
A smart agriculture industry technology roadmap is a set of policies designed to: (1) guide the future development of technology in the agriculture industry; and (2) help align the efforts of the U.S agriculture industry, the research community, and other members of the agriculture community to increase U.S. efforts to become the global leader in smart farming and agriculture.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5449 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2018

   Mr. Soto introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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--
            ``(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 subparagraph:
                    ``(B) use $500,000 to support a public-private 
                partnership that would produce, and update, a smart 
                agriculture industry technology roadmap.''.
    (b) Definition.--Section 6402(g) of the Farm Security 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 technology roadmap 
        defined.--In this section, the term `smart agriculture industry 
        technology roadmap' means a set of policies designed to--
                    ``(A) guide the future development of technology in 
                the agriculture industry; and
                    ``(B) help align the efforts of the United States 
                agriculture industry, including agricultural producers, 
                the research community (including the public-private 
                partnership referred to in paragraph (1) and colleges 
                and universities (as defined in section 1404 of the 
                National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
                Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 1303)), and other members 
                of the agriculture community 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 ``subparagraph (A)'' and inserting ``subparagraph (A) or (B) 
of paragraph (1)''.
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