---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 3125a–1"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "3125a–1"
heading: "Agricultural and food law research, legal tools, and information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/3125a-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 64 — Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching"
  - "Subchapter II — Coordination and Planning of Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching"
---

# §3125a–1. Agricultural and food law research, legal tools, and information

- (a) **Partnerships—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/3103.md?p=15) 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](/usc/7/3103.md?p=20) (as defined in [section 1001 of title 20](/usc/20/1001.md)) 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.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–79, title VII, § 7603, Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 911.)

## Notes

### 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.