United States HR 5061: Specialty Crop Domestic Market Promotion and Development Program Act of 2023

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118TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. 5061
To amend the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 to direct the
Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program under which the Sec-
retary will award grants to eligible organizations to encourage the devel-
opment, maintenance, and expansion of commercial domestic market
for domestically produced specialty crop commodities.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 27, 2023
Mr. VALADAO (for himself, Mr. SOTO, Mr. COSTA, and Mr. LAMALFA) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agri-
culture
A BILL
To amend the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004
to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a pro-
gram under which the Secretary will award grants to
eligible organizations to encourage the development,
maintenance, and expansion of commercial domestic mar-
ket for domestically produced specialty crop commodities.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Specialty Crop Domes-2
tic Market Promotion and Development Program Act of 3
2023’’. 4
SEC. 2. SPECIALTY CROP DOMESTIC MARKET PROMOTION 5
AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. 6
Title II of the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act 7
of 2004 (7 U.S.C. 7712a et seq.) is amended by adding 8
at the end the following: 9
‘‘SEC. 204. SPECIALTY CROP DOMESTIC MARKET PRO-10
MOTION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. 11
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of encouraging the 12
development, maintenance, and expansion of the commer-13
cial domestic market for domestically produced specialty 14
crop commodities, the Secretary of Agriculture, acting 15
through the Administrator of the Agricultural Marketing 16
Service, shall establish a program under which the Sec-17
retary will award grants to eligible organizations to imple-18
ment a domestic market development program for spe-19
cialty crops. 20
‘‘(b) APPLICATION.—An eligible organization seeking 21
a grant under this section shall submit to the Secretary— 22
‘‘(1) an application at such time, in such man-23
ner, and containing such information as the Sec-24
retary may require; 25
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‘‘(2) a marketing plan that meets the require-1
ments of subsection (c); and 2
‘‘(3) a certification that any Federal funds re-3
ceived by such organization under this section will 4
supplement, but not supplant, funds from non-Fed-5
eral sources (including a private entity) to carry out 6
a domestic market development program for spe-7
cialty crops. 8
‘‘(c) MARKETING PLAN.— 9
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A marketing plan sub-10
mitted under subsection (b) shall— 11
‘‘(A) describe the advertising or other de-12
mand-oriented, generic domestic promotion ac-13
tivities to be carried out by the eligible organi-14
zation using funds awarded through a grant 15
under this section; and 16
‘‘(B) contain— 17
‘‘(i) a description of the manner in 18
which funds received by the eligible organi-19
zation through a grant under this section, 20
in conjunction with funds and services pro-21
vided by the eligible organization, will be 22
expended in implementing the marketing 23
plan; 24
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‘‘(ii) the market goals to be achieved 1
under the marketing plan; and 2
‘‘(iii) such additional information as 3
may be required by the Secretary. 4
‘‘(2) AMENDMENTS.—A marketing plan ap-5
proved under this section may be amended by the el-6
igible organization submitting such plan at any time, 7
subject to the approval of the Secretary. 8
‘‘(d) AMOUNT OF GRANT.— 9
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall justify, 10
in writing, the level of funds awarded through a 11
grant to an eligible organization and the level of 12
matching funds to be required of the organization. 13
‘‘(2) MATCHING FUNDS.—The recipient of a 14
grant under this section shall provide non-Federal 15
matching funds equal to not less than 25 percent of 16
the amount of the grant, or such other amount de-17
termined by the Secretary pursuant to paragraph 18
(1). 19
‘‘(3) IN-KIND SUPPORT.—Non-Federal match-20
ing funds described in paragraph (2) may include in- 21
kind support. 22
‘‘(e) MULTIYEAR BASIS.—The Secretary may provide 23
assistance under this section on a multiyear basis. The 24
Secretary shall conduct an annual review of any grant 25
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awarded on a multiyear basis to ensure that the e