3.0.0 1242 2023-01-11T13:49:16Z 2023-01-11T13:49:16Z Senate S 2021-04-20 117 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2021-04-20T21:02:42Z AIM Act 117 1625 HR 2021-03-08 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. Related bill CRS 2021-04-20 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2021-04-20 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001095 Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] Tom Cotton R AR N E000295 Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] Joni Ernst R IA 2021-04-20 True Agriculture and Food Chemical and biological weapons Computer security and identity theft Department of Agriculture Espionage and treason Executive agency funding and structure Federal officials Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information Subversive activities Agriculture and Food 00 2021-04-20 Introduced in Senate 2022-04-07T14:35:09Z Agricultural Intelligence Measures Act of 2021 or the AIM Act of 2021

This bill establishes the Office of Intelligence in the Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the National Intelligence Program.

The office must

  • leverage the capabilities of the intelligence community and the intelligence-related research of the National Laboratories to ensure that USDA is fully informed of threats by foreign actors to U.S. agriculture;
  • focus on understanding foreign efforts to steal U.S. agriculture knowledge and technology, and develop or implement biological warfare attacks, cyber or clandestine operations, or other means of sabotaging and disrupting U.S. agriculture;
  • prepare, conduct, and facilitate intelligence briefings for USDA;
  • operate as the liaison between USDA and the intelligence community, with the authority to request intelligence collection and analysis on matters related to U.S. agriculture;
  • collaborate with the intelligence community to downgrade intelligence assessments for broader dissemination within USDA; and
  • facilitate the sharing of information on foreign activities related to agriculture with the intelligence community.
]]> AIM Act of 2021 Display Title AIM Act of 2021 Official Title as Introduced A bill to establish the Office of Intelligence in the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced AIM Act of 2021 Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Agricultural Intelligence Measures Act of 2021 Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s1242is/xml/BILLS-117s1242is.xml 2021-04-20 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.