S. 1628 – America Grows Act of 2023

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The America Grows Act of 2023 aims to boost and protect federal investment in agricultural research. It raises funding for four USDA research agencies by 5 % above the prior year’s budget and adds inflation adjustments each year. The law also shields these funds from any sequestration cuts, and it excludes the spending from PAYGO scorecards.

Key Provisions

For FY 2024, each listed agency receives 105 % of its FY 2023 new budget authority plus any CPI inflation adjustment; for FY 2025‑2033, the amount is 105 % of the previous year’s appropriation plus CPI; from FY 2034 onward, funding grows only with CPI.
The funding recipients are the Agricultural Research Service, Economic Research Service, National Agricultural Statistics Service, and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Appropriations under this Act are exempt from sequestration orders under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act.
The Act’s budget effects are not to be recorded on statutory or Senate PAYGO scorecards.

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S1681)

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee

May 16, 2023

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Introduced in Senate

May 16, 2023

SenateIntro Referral

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S1681)

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee

May 16, 2023

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Sen. Dianne FeinsteinD-CA · May 16, 2023

Madam President, I rise to speak in support of the Help Independent Tracks Succeed (HITS) Act, which Senator Blackburn and I introduced today. Representatives Linda Sanchez and Ron Estes have…

Sen. Richard J. DurbinD-IL · May 16, 2023

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record.

Sen. Richard J. DurbinD-IL · May 16, 2023

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record.

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Introduced in SenateIssued May 16, 2023

II

118th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 1628

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

May 16, 2023

Mr. Durbin (for himself and Mr. Moran) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

A BILL

To prioritize funding for an expanded and sustained national investment in agriculture research.

1.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the America Grows Act of 2023.

2.

Funding

(a)

In general

There is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to each funding recipient described in subsection (b) for the programs, projects, and activities of such funding recipient, the following amounts:

(1)

For fiscal year 2024, the amount equal to 105 percent of the amount of new budget authority made available in appropriation Acts for that funding recipient for fiscal year 2023, increased by the percentage increase (if any), during fiscal year 2023, in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

(2)

For each of fiscal years 2025 through 2033, the amount equal to 105 percent of the amount appropriated to that funding recipient under this subsection for the previous fiscal year, increased by the percentage increase (if any), during such previous fiscal year, in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

(3)

For fiscal year 2034, and each fiscal year thereafter, the amount appropriated under this paragraph for the previous fiscal year, increased by the percentage increase (if any), during such previous fiscal year, in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

(b)

Funding recipients described

The funding recipients described in this subsection are—

(1)

the Agricultural Research Service;

(2)

the Economic Research Service;

(3)

the National Agricultural Statistics Service; and

(4)

the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

(c)

Availability

Each amount appropriated under subsection (a) shall remain available for obligation through the last day of the fiscal year for which such amount is appropriated.

3.

Exemption from sequestration

(a)

In general

Section 255(g)(1)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 905(g)(1)(A)) is amended by inserting after Advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and Other Funds (16–0327–0–1–600). the following:

Appropriations made available under section 2(a) of the America Grows Act of 2023.

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(b)

Applicability

The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to any sequestration order issued under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 et seq.) on or after the date of enactment of this Act.

4.

Budgetary effects

(a)

Statutory paygo scorecards

The budgetary effects of this Act shall not be entered on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(d)).

(b)

Senate paygo scorecards

The budgetary effects of this Act shall not be entered on any PAYGO scorecard maintained for purposes of section 4106 of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress).