[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5091 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5091

  To require the Secretary of Agriculture to annually publish certain 
     data with respect to grape production, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 28, 2023

Ms. Tenney (for herself and Mr. Morelle) introduced the following bill; 
           which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Secretary of Agriculture to annually publish certain 
     data with respect to grape production, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Fairness in Vineyard Data Act''.

SEC. 2. GRAPE PRODUCTION DATA.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the 
Administrator of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, shall--
            (1) not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment 
        of this Act--
                    (A) conduct a survey on grape production in each 
                State, including--
                            (i) total acreage; and
                            (ii) production, utilization, and acreage 
                        by type, variety, county, and year planted; and
                    (B) make publicly available on the website of the 
                National Agricultural Statistics Service the results of 
                such survey and the data from such survey; and
            (2) not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment 
        of this Act and annually for the 3 years thereafter, make 
        publicly available on the website of the National Agricultural 
        Statistics Service data from the 5 States with the highest 
        grape production in the preceding year, as determined using 
        data from the survey required under paragraph (1)(A).
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            (1) Survey.--There is authorized to be appropriated to 
        carry out subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (a)(1) 
        $2,500,000 for fiscal year 2024.
            (2) Publication of data.--There is authorized to be 
        appropriated to carry out subsection (a)(2) $1,500,000 for each 
        of fiscal years 2025 through 2028.
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