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To amend the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to waive the matching funds requirement under the specialty crop research initiative, and for other purposes.

To amend the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to waive the matching funds requirement under the specialty crop research initiative, and for other purposes.

Introduced May 29, 2025

Latest action (May 29, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

Referred to
Agriculture Committee
Policy area
Agriculture and Food
Issues
Education

Summary

- Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to waive the matching funds requirement for specialty crop research initiative grants awarded after the bill's enactment

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
14 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Kim Schrier’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $71,027
  • Employer not reported $55,267
  • MICROSOFT $25,970
  • MICROSOFT CORPORATION $24,615
  • KAISER PERMANENTE $20,420

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Kim Schrier → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. May 29, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. · house
  2. May 29, 2025 Introduced in House

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Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 3568 — AG RESEARCH Act · Introduced May 21, 2025 · Cong. 119 77%
  • S 2727 — A bill to amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to authorize grants for eligible institutions to carry out agriculture workforce training programs, and for other purposes. · Introduced Sep 4, 2025 · Cong. 119 75%
  • HR 3455 — To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to extend the term of marketing assistance loans. · Introduced Mar 19, 1998 · Cong. 105 75%
  • HR 4272 — Farm Life Extension Act of 1998 · Introduced Jul 31, 1998 · Cong. 105 71%
  • HR 4155 — American Agricultural Security Research Act of 2025 · Introduced Jun 26, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 1230 — AG VETS Act · Introduced Dec 19, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · May 29, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

May 29, 2025

Ms. Schrier (for herself, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. Newhouse, Mr. Moolenaar, Ms. DelBene, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Takano, Mr. Riley of New York, and Mr. Bergman) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

A BILL

To amend the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to waive the matching funds requirement under the specialty crop research initiative, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. MATCHING FUNDS WAIVER UNDER SPECIALTY CROP RESEARCH INITIATIVE.

Section 412(g)(3) of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7632(g)(3)) is amended—

(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking “An entity” and inserting “Subject to subparagraph (C), an entity”; and

(2) by adding at the end the following:

“(C) Waiver.—With respect to a grant awarded under this section on or after the date of enactment of this subparagraph, the Secretary may waive the matching funds requirement under subparagraph (A).”. <all>

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