3.0.0 278 2023-01-11T13:46:37Z 2023-01-11T13:46:37Z Senate S 2021-02-08 117 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2021-02-08T22:44:39Z 2021-02-08 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2021-02-08 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000790 Sen. Warnock, Raphael G. [D-GA] Raphael Warnock D GA G. N B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ 2021-02-08 True L000570 Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM] Ben Lujan D NM R. 2021-02-08 True S000770 Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] Debbie Stabenow D MI 2021-02-08 True L000174 Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] Patrick Leahy D VT 2021-02-08 True K000367 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] Amy Klobuchar D MN 2021-02-08 True B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2021-02-12 False G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. 2021-02-12 False S001203 Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] Tina Smith D MN 2021-03-09 False B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2021-03-16 False Agriculture and Food Advisory bodies Agricultural education Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit Alaska Natives and Hawaiians Appropriations Banking and financial institutions regulation Cardiovascular and respiratory health Department of Agriculture Education programs funding Emergency medical services and trauma care Executive agency funding and structure Farmland Government information and archives Government lending and loan guarantees Government studies and investigations Higher education Infectious and parasitic diseases Labor-management relations Land transfers Lawyers and legal services Libraries and archives Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor Minority and disadvantaged businesses Minority education Minority employment Property rights Racial and ethnic relations Student aid and college costs U.S. history Agriculture and Food 00 2021-02-08 Introduced in Senate 2021-06-07T19:08:58Z Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act of 2021

This bill provides funds for the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide assistance to address historical discrimination and disparities in the agriculture sector.

For example, USDA must provide debt forgiveness to help socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers pay off outstanding farm loan debts and address issues relating to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).

Additionally, USDA must provide a competitive grant to a school of law or legal research entity to establish the National Center for Minority Farmer Agricultural Law Research and Information. It must also provide grants and loans to resolve property issues relating to ownership and succession on farmland.

The bill provides financial assistance to cooperative development centers, individual cooperatives, or groups of cooperatives that serve socially disadvantaged groups. It also provides financial assistance and technical assistance to certain nonprofit organizations that provide services to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers.

USDA must provide support for research, education, and extension at historically Black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions. It must also provide grants to land-grant colleges and universities for student scholarships, including for students who are members of Indian tribes and pursuing an agricultural field of study.

The bill also requires USDA to establish an equity commission to address and mitigate discrimination across its agency.

]]> Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act of 2021 Display Title Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act of 2021 Short Title(s) as Introduced Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act of 2021 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide assistance for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers and socially disadvantaged groups, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s278is/xml/BILLS-117s278is.xml 2021-02-08 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.