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.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3656 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3656

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.

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                    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

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                                 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).''.
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