S.Amdt. 3085

SA 3085. Mr. YOUNG (for himself, Mrs. McCaskill, Mr. Blunt, and Mr.
Donnelly) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the
bill H.R. 2, to provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural
and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year
2023, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

After section 3304, insert the following:

SEC. 3305. 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''.
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