Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-110

§3125a–1 Agricultural and Food Law Research, Legal Tools, and Information

Title 7 › CHAPTER 64 — AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND TEACHING › SUBCHAPTER II — COORDINATION AND PLANNING OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND TEACHING › § 3125a–1

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Agriculture Secretary, using the National Agricultural Library, must work with colleges and universities to help share trustworthy research, legal tools, and information about farm and food law. The schools must be institutions of higher education that, as of February 7, 2014, were running impartial programs that do this kind of work. The law allows $5,000,000 to be appropriated to carry out this work for fiscal year 2014 and for each fiscal year after that.

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Title 7, §3125a–1

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(a)Partnerships

The Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the National Agricultural Library, shall support the dissemination of objective, scholarly, and authoritative agricultural and food law research, legal tools, and information by entering into cooperative agreements with institutions of higher education (as defined in section 1001 of title 20) that on February 7, 2014, are carrying out objective programs for research, legal tools, and information in agricultural and food law.

(b)Authorization of appropriations

There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2014 and each fiscal year thereafter.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Agricultural Act of 2014, and not as part of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 which comprises this chapter.

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7 U.S.C. § 3125a–1

Title 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110