1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Improving Coordination of Agriculture Research and Data Act . 2. Purposes The purposes of this Act are— (1) to strategically align agriculture climate research and data systems; (2) to strengthen technical assistance and technology transfer; and (3) to establish a national agriculture climate research agenda to mitigate and adapt to climate change. 3. Agriculture climate research coordination and data (a) Agriculture Climate Scientific Research Advisory Committee Subtitle B of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 ( 7 U.S.C. 3121 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: 1413C. Agriculture Climate Scientific Research Advisory Committee (a) Establishment The Secretary shall establish within the Office of the Chief Scientist an advisory committee, to be known as the Agriculture Climate Scientific Research Advisory Committee (referred to in this section as the Committee ). (b) Duties The Committee shall— (1) review, and make recommendations and provide consultation to the Secretary regarding, the long-term and short-term national policies and priorities of the Department of Agriculture for— (A) data collection for climate-specific agricultural research, extension, education, and economics; and (B) agricultural climate research priority areas and scientific agendas for measuring, monitoring, reporting, and verification of climate and environmental outcomes that include— (i) carbon removal, carbon sequestration, and greenhouse gas emission related to agriculture; (ii) soil health; (iii) livestock methane production; (iv) wetland management; and (v) climate smart agriculture practices; (2) identify gaps in current agriculture climate research and develop a biennial national research agenda and annual scientific recommendations to address areas of critical need for publicly funded agriculture climate research