Title: SECURE Food Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Security of the Economy, Climate, and other U.S. interests with Recent and Existing Food alternatives Act or the SECURE Food Act
This bill requires the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to report to Congress on the effects of increased production and consumption of alternative proteins (e.g., proteins produced from plants or fungi) on the long-term national security interests of the United States.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7468 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7468

To direct the Director of National Intelligence to submit to Congress a 
   report on the effects of increased production and consumption of 
 alternative proteins on the long-term national security interests of 
                           the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 7, 2022

    Mr. Krishnamoorthi (for himself and Mr. Khanna) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on 
                              Intelligence

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Director of National Intelligence to submit to Congress a 
   report on the effects of increased production and consumption of 
 alternative proteins on the long-term national security interests of 
                           the United States.

    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 ``Security of the Economy, Climate, 
and other U.S. interests with Recent and Existing Food alternatives 
Act'' or the ``SECURE Food Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON THE EFFECTS OF INCREASED PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION 
              OF ALTERNATIVE PROTEINS TO NATIONAL SECURITY.

    (a) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence, in 
consultation with the heads of other departments and agencies of the 
Federal Government that the Director determines appropriate, shall 
submit to the congressional intelligence committees a report on the 
effects of increased production and consumption of alternative proteins 
on the long-term national security interests of the United States.
    (b) Elements.--The report under subsection (a) shall include the 
following:
            (1) A detailed description of how the increased production 
        and consumption of alternative proteins affect--
                    (A) biosecurity, food security, climate security, 
                and water security;
                    (B) the environment, including with respect to 
                reduced land use and reduced deforestation;
                    (C) public health, including with respect to 
                pandemic risk reduction, air and water pollution 
                reduction, and antibiotic usage reduction; and
                    (D) the economy, including with respect to job 
                creation and new markets for agricultural products of 
                the United States.
            (2) A detailed explanation of whether, and to what extent, 
        progress in the production and consumption of alternative 
        proteins made by foreign countries constitutes a competitive 
        threat to the economic interests of the United States.
    (c) Form.--The report under subsection (a) shall be submitted in 
unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Alternative proteins.--The term ``alternative 
        proteins'' means food proteins produced from plants, fungi, or 
        animal cell cultivation that share sensory characteristics with 
        conventional animal proteins.
            (2) Congressional intelligence committees.--The term 
        ``congressional intelligence committees'' has the meaning given 
        that term in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
        U.S.C. 3003).
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