3.0.0 2897 2026-06-22T18:29:15Z 2026-06-22T18:29:15Z Senate S S 2025-09-18 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2897 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-09-18T20:38:52Z Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 119 7567 HR 2026-05-19 Received in the Senate. Related bill CRS Tropical Plant Health Initiative Act 119 5562 HR 2025-12-02 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology. Identical bill CRS 2025-09-18 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2025-09-18 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001042 Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] Mazie Hirono D HI K. N S001194 Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI] Brian Schatz D HI 2025-09-18 True Agriculture and Food Agriculture and Food 2025-12-09T21:13:59Z 00 2025-09-18 Introduced in Senate 2026-06-22T18:27:45Z Tropical Plant Health Initiative Act

This bill establishes a Tropical Plant Health Initiative as a Department of Agriculture (USDA) high-priority research and extension area and reauthorizes other USDA research and extension initiatives. Under the bill, tropical plants include coffee plants, macadamia trees, cacao trees, plantains and bananas, mangos, floriculture and nursery crops, and vanilla plants.

Specifically, the bill allows research and extension grants for 

  • developing and disseminating science-based tools and treatments to combat plant pests and noxious weeds that impact tropical plants;
  • establishing an integrated pest management program in areas where tropical plants are affected by plant pests or noxious weeds; and
  • conducting related data collection, research, and investigations regarding the production, health, immune systems, biology, ecology, and genomics of the tropical plants. 

Further, the bill reauthorizes USDA grants to support competitive specialized research and extension activities, including high-priority areas, through FY2030.

]]> Tropical Plant Health Initiative Act Display Title 45 Tropical Plant Health Initiative Act 2025-10-10T06:08:14Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Tropical Plant Health Initiative Act 2025-10-10T06:08:13Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to provide research and extension grants to support the study of insects and pests that impact tropical plants, and for other purposes. 2025-10-10T06:03:23Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-09-18T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s2897is/xml/BILLS-119s2897is.xml 2025-09-18 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.