S 1371 United States Senate · 117th Congress

America Grows Act of 2021

Summary
America Grows Act of 2021 This bill permanently funds several agencies that perform agriculture research. The bill provides specified funding for the following agencies within the Department of Agriculture: the Agricultural Research Service, the Economic Research Service, the National Agricultural Statistics Service, and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The bill exempts the funding from sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals. It also exempts the budgetary effects of the funding from the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO) and the Senate PAYGO rule.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
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Apr 2021
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Introduced Apr 26, 2021 Last action Apr 26, 2021
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Apr 26, 2021
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S2200-2201)
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Apr 26, 2021
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