Growing American Food Exports Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-3103
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Introduced: 2018-06-21
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations

Agricultural practices and innovations

Agricultural trade

Free trade and trade barriers
Latest action: action_date: 2018-06-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-06-21
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Growing American Food Exports Act of 2018 </b></p> <p>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. </p> <p>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. </p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3103 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 A BILL To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to improve and reauthorize the Biotechnology and Agricultural Trade Program.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Growing American Food Exports Act of 2018 . 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 .