119th Congress
H.R. 5097
To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program under which the Secretary will award grants to specialty crop producers to acquire certain equipment and provide training with respect to the use of such equipment.
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became law
- Sponsor
- David G. Valadao(R-CA)
- Introduced
- Sep 2, 2025
- Policy area
- Agriculture and Food
- Committees
- House Committee on Agriculture
- Official text
- Introduced in House · Congress.gov page
Cosponsors (8)
Original cosponsors (5)
- Jim Costa (D-CA)
- Jimmy Panetta (D-CA)
- Josh Harder (D-CA)
- Julia Brownley (D-CA)
- L000578
Added later (3)
- Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA) · Sep 15, 2025
- Adam Gray (D-CA) · Dec 2, 2025
- Andrea Salinas (D-OR) · Apr 13, 2026
Summary
Summary by the Congressional Research Service· describes the “Introduced in House” version
This bill directs the Agricultural Marketing Service to establish a grant program for commercial specialty crop producers to acquire equipment and provide related training.
Funds must be used for mechanized or automated systems and tools that increase the efficiency of a task or reduce human labor for a specific activity (e.g., low-dust harvesting tools and equipment, sorting machines, and crop monitoring and analytics equipment and tools).
The bill includes a minimum 50% cost-sharing requirement.
Roll-call votes
No recorded votes on this bill.
Actions
- Sep 2, 2025 · House
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. - Sep 2, 2025
Introduced in House