Brad Finstad

To amend title 5, United States Code, to require greater transparency for Federal regulatory decisions that impact small businesses, and for other purposes.

To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to periodically assess cybersecurity threats to, and vulnerabilities in, the agriculture and food critical infrastructure sector and to provide recommendations to enhance their security and resilience, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct an annual cross-sector simulation exercise relating to a food-related emergency or disruption, and for other purposes.

To amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to establish a last acre program, and for other purposes.

To amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to create the USDA Express Guaranteed Farm Ownership and Guaranteed Farm Operating Loan programs, enabling faster access to credit for America’s farmers and ranchers.

To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to extend a priority review program to encourage treatments for agents that present national security threats.

To amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to modify limitations on amounts of farm ownership loans and operating loans, and for other purposes.

To ensure the rural surface transportation grant program is accessible to rural areas, and for other purposes.

To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into a lease for a Vet Center in Mankato, Minnesota.

To extend the statute of limitations for fraud by individuals under the COVID–19 unemployment programs.

To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to publish criteria for the review of requests by certain meat or poultry establishments to operate at alternate inspection rates, to review and respond to such requests, and for other purposes.

To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to publish criteria for the review of requests by certain meat or poultry establishments to operate at alternate inspection rates, to review and respond to such requests, and for other purposes.

To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to authorize grants for eligible institutions to carry out agriculture workforce training programs, and for other purposes.

To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct an audit of fraud relating to waivers of certain requirements of the child nutrition programs during the COVID–19 pandemic, and for other purposes.

To amend title 23, United States Code, to reduce the population definition of rural area to 20,000 to restrict eligibility to be considered under the rural surface transportation grant program.

To affirm that the Farm Credit Administration is the sole and independent regulator of the Farm Credit System.

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to exclude certain propane storage facilities from certain chemical security standards under the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.

To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to clarify propane storage as an eligible use for funds provided under the storage facility loan program, and for other purposes.

To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to conduct an audit of any unobligated coronavirus-related funding and to rescind all such funding, and for other purposes.

To amend the Small Business Act to establish a rural manufacturing forgivable loan program, and for other purposes.

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 130 North Main Street in Blue Earth, Minnesota, as the Jim Hagedorn Memorial Post Office.