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This bill would update the federal maple industry grant program so the Agriculture Department must ask maple producers and related stakeholders for input before opening new grant applications. The department would then use that feedback when deciding what research and education projects to fund. The bill would also extend the program’s authority from 2023 to 2030, allowing it to continue for several more years.
- Requires the Agriculture Secretary to gather input from maple industry stakeholders before certain grant application rounds begin.
- The consultation must happen at least 6 months before the request for applications, starting with the first one that comes at least 1 year after the bill becomes law.
- The Secretary must take that input into account when awarding grants under the program.
- Extends the maple access and development program through 2030.
Official Summaries
Supporting All Producers Act or the SAP Act
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to solicit input from maple industry stakeholders with respect to the research and education priorities of the maple industry for the Acer Access and Development Program (Acer). Specifically, the bill amends Acer to require USDA to consider the information provided through consultation with the maple industry when making program grants.
The bill also extends the program's authorization through FY2030.
As background, Acer provides competitive grants to states, tribal governments, and research institutions to support their efforts to promote the domestic maple syrup industry through activities associated with, among other things, the promotion of (1) research and education related to maple syrup production, and (2) natural resource sustainability in the maple syrup industry.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 56 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 56
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 with respect to the Acer access
and development program, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 9, 2025
Mr. Welch (for himself, Ms. Collins, and Mr. King) introduced the
following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
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A BILL
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 with respect to the Acer access
and development program, 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. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Supporting All Producers Act'' or
the ``SAP Act''.
SEC. 2. ACER ACCESS AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
Section 12306 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 1632c) is
amended--
(1) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as subsections
(f) and (g), respectively;
(2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following:
``(e) Consultations.--
``(1) In general.--Beginning with the first request for
applications under this section that occurs at least 1 year
after the date of the enactment of the SAP Act, not later than
6 months before such a request for applications, the Secretary
shall solicit input from maple industry stakeholders with
respect to the research and education priorities of the maple
industry.
``(2) Consideration.--The Secretary shall consider the
information provided through the consultation required under
paragraph (1) when making grants under this section.''; and
(3) in subsection (g), as so redesignated, by striking
``2023'' and inserting ``2030''.
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