[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1846 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1846

  To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to reauthorize and rename the 
                  Acer Access and Development Program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 7, 2023

 Mr. Murphy (for himself, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. King, Mr. 
 Welch, and Mr. Sanders) 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 to reauthorize and rename the 
                  Acer Access and Development Program.

    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 ``Market Access, Promotion, and 
Landowner Education Support for Your Regionally Underserved Producers 
Act'' or the ``MAPLE SYRUP Act''.

SEC. 2. MAPLE RESEARCH AND MARKET PROMOTION PROGRAM.

    Section 12306 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 1632c) is 
amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``acer access and 
        development program'' and inserting ``maple research and market 
        promotion program'';
            (2) in subsection (a), in the matter preceding paragraph 
        (1), by striking ``Secretary of Agriculture may make'' and 
        inserting ``Secretary shall establish a program, to be known as 
        the `Maple Research and Market Promotion Program', under which 
        the Secretary may make'';
            (3) in subsection (e), by striking ``of Agriculture''; and
            (4) in subsection (f), by striking ``$20,000,000 for each 
        of fiscal years 2014 through 2023'' and inserting ``$30,000,000 
        for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028''.
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