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S. 500, Securing Our Agriculture and Food Act 1 (March 24, 2017)

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                   CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE

  a                           COST   ESTIMATE
                                                                 March 24, 2017



                                    S. 500
                  Securing  our  Agriculture  and  Food  Act

         As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security
                   and Governmental Affairs on March 15, 2017


S. 500 would amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize a program within the
Department of Homeland Security's Office of Health Affairs to coordinate efforts to
defend U.S. food, agriculture, and veterinary systems against terrorism.

CBO  estimates that implementing S. 500 would cost about $500,000 a year; such spending
would be subject to the availability of appropriated funds. In 2016, the department
allocated $475,000 for this activity. A full year appropriation for the department has not yet
been enacted for 2017.

Enacting S. 500 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go
procedures do not apply. CBO estimates that enacting S. 500 would not increase net direct
spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in
2028.

S. 500 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the
Unfunded Mandates Reform  Act and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal
governments.

On March  13, 2017, CBO transmitted a cost estimate for H.R. 1238, the Securing our
Agriculture and Food Act, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland
Security on March 8, 2017. The two pieces of legislation are similar and CBO's estimates
of their budgetary effects are the same.

The CBO  staff contact for this estimate is Robert Reese. The estimate was approved by
H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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