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.
The summary
What this bill does
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.
Legislative timeline
From introduction
Sep 2, 2025
Introduced & referred to committee
Congressional support
Sponsors & Cosponsors
U.S. Representative - CA District 22 · R-CA
8 cosponsors
U.S. Representative - CA District 19 · D-CA
U.S. Representative - California District 20 · D-CA
U.S. Representative - CA District 26 · D-CA
U.S. Representative - CA District 9 · D-CA
U.S. Representative - CA District 1 · R-CA
U.S. Representative - VA District 7 · D-VA
U.S. Representative - CA District 13 · D-CA
U.S. Representative - OR District 6 · D-OR
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Bill Metadata
| Congress | 119 |
| Bill Type | HR |
| Bill Number | 5097 |
| Origin Chamber | House |
| Current Status | Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. |
| Policy Area | Agriculture and Food |
| Primary Committee | Not assigned |
| Introduced | September 2, 2025 |
| Latest Action | September 2, 2025 |
| Cosponsors | 8 · House vote — · 1 views |