H.R. 6474: AG RESEARCH Act
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H.R. 6474: AG RESEARCH Act
115th Congress · introduced 2018-07-23 · Agriculture and Food · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2018-07-23 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Gabbard, Tulsi [D-HI-2] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
AG RESEARCH Act
Plain summary
Augmenting Research and Educational Sites to Ensure Agriculture Remains Cutting-Edge and Helpful Act or the AG RESEARCH Act This bill amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to provide funding for maintenance at agricultural research facilities. The bill requires the Department of Agriculture to: (1) establish a grant program within the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to provide agricultural research facilities with a federal share of the cost for the alteration, modernization, renovation, or remodeling of the research facilities or the equipment necessary for agricultural research; and (2) use specified Commodity Credit Corporation funds to provide direct payments to research facilities of the Agricultural Research Service for addressing deferred maintenance.
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Sponsor: Rep. Gabbard, Tulsi [D-HI-2] · 20 cosponsors
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Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Mark Takano (D-CA), Darren Soto (D-FL), Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-115hr6474.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/hr>
Record fed-us-cong115-hr6474 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115