H.R. 1495 · 118th Congress

Precision Agriculture Loan Program Act of 2023

Introduced on Mar 9, 2023 by Randy Feenstra (R-IA-4). 18 cosponsors, 10 of them from another party. Latest action (Apr 5, 2023): Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
Mar 9, 2023
Cosponsors
18
10 from the other party
Policy area
Agriculture and Food
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Progress

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  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to establish a precision agriculture loan program, and for other purposes.

Summary

By the Congressional Research Service (Introduced in House, Mar 9, 2023). Public domain.

Precision Agriculture Loan Program Act of 2023

This bill establishes a loan program within the Farm Service Agency to assist agricultural producers in purchasing precision agriculture equipment and technology, such as geospatial mapping, data management and analytics software, and network connectivity products and solutions.

Precision agriculture refers to managing, tracking, or reducing crop or livestock production inputs, including seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time, at a heightened level of spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Randy FeenstraR-IA-4Sponsor

Democrats · 10

Republicans · 8

Roll calls

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No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

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  1. Mar 9, 2023Introduced in House
  2. Mar 9, 2023Introduced in House
  3. Mar 9, 2023 · HouseReferred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
  4. Apr 5, 2023 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. ASSOCIATION OF EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS9 reports
    $6.9M reported (all issues)
  2. AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FED5 reports
    $1.6M reported (all issues)
  3. Case New Holland Industrial Inc.5 reports
    $1.9M reported (all issues)
  4. Farmers Educational Cooperative Union of America5 reports
    $400K reported (all issues)
  5. NORTH CAROLINA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION, INC5 reports
    $605.9K reported (all issues)
  6. OHIO FARM BUREAU FEDERATION5 reports
    $251K reported (all issues)
  7. PENNSYLVANIA FARM BUREAU5 reports
    $70K reported (all issues)
  8. SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.5 reports
    $3.6M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP$6.6M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  9. THE KANSAS FARM BUREAU4 reports
    $190K reported (all issues)
  10. CROPLIFE AMERICA3 reports
    $1M reported (all issues)
  11. GPS INNOVATION ALLIANCE3 reports
    $10.7K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2023, 2024, 2025.

Sources and method

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  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.