3.0.0 2589 2025-12-05T08:45:59Z 2026-05-09T16:27:19Z Senate S S 2023-07-27 118 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2589 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-07-27T16:28:18Z AG RESEARCH Act 118 4135 HR 2023-07-28 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology. Related bill CRS 2023-07-27 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2023-07-27 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001042 Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] Mazie Hirono D HI K. N K000367 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] Amy Klobuchar D MN 2023-07-27 True K000383 Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME] Angus King I ME S. 2023-07-27 True S001203 Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] Tina Smith D MN 2023-07-27 True D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2023-07-27 True F000479 Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA] John Fetterman D PA K. 2023-07-27 True W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR 2023-07-27 True M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2023-07-27 True V000128 Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD] Chris Van Hollen D MD 2023-07-27 True W000800 Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] Peter Welch D VT 2023-07-27 True L000570 Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM] Ben Luján D NM R. 2023-07-27 True G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. 2023-09-05 False F000062 Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] Dianne Feinstein D CA 2023-09-05 False B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2023-09-06 False W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI 2023-09-12 False R000608 Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV] Jacklyn Rosen D NV 2023-09-14 False P000145 Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA] Alex Padilla D CA 2023-09-27 False Agriculture and Food Agriculture and Food 2023-08-25T15:00:35Z 00 2023-07-27 Introduced in Senate 2024-02-09T16:23:24Z Augmenting Research and Educational Sites to Ensure Agriculture Remains Cutting-Edge and Helpful Act or the AG RESEARCH Act

This bill provides funding for maintenance at agricultural research facilities.

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) must (1) revise its review process for evaluating proposals for agricultural research facilities to include consulting with representatives of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) peer review panels; and (2) establish a grant program within NIFA to provide agricultural research facilities with a federal share of the cost for the construction, alteration, acquisition, modernization, renovation, or remodeling of the research facilities or the equipment necessary for agricultural research.

Additionally, the bill provides funding for the grant program and for USDA to provide direct payments to research facilities of the Agricultural Research Service for addressing deferred maintenance. USDA must give priority to the most critical structures in accordance with the Agricultural Research Service Capital Investment Strategy (April 2012).

]]> AG RESEARCH Act Display Title 45 AG RESEARCH Act 2024-07-24T15:20:43Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 AG RESEARCH Act 2024-05-24T13:37:14Z Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Augmenting Research and Educational Sites to Ensure Agriculture Remains Cutting-Edge and Helpful Act 2024-05-24T13:37:14Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to amend the Research Facilities Act and the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to address deferred maintenance at agricultural research facilities, and for other purposes. 2024-02-13T13:08:23Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118s2589is/xml/BILLS-118s2589is.xml 2023-07-27 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.