[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1939 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1939

   To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to make funds 
 available for the processing, packaging, and transportation of grower-
        donated commodities by private nonprofit organizations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 29, 1993

     Mr. Payne of Virginia (for himself, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. 
Goodlatte, Mr. Penny, and Mrs. Clayton) introduced the following bill; 
           which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to make funds 
 available for the processing, packaging, and transportation of grower-
        donated commodities by private nonprofit organizations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Grower-Donated Commodities Act of 
1993''.

SEC. 2. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF GROWER-DONATED 
              COMMODITIES.

    Section 204(a) of the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 (7 
U.S.C. 612c note) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) by inserting ``(A)'' after ``(1)'',
                    (B) in the second sentence by striking ``Funds'' 
                and inserting the following:
    ``(B) Except as provided in paragraph (3), funds'', and
                    (C) in the last sentence by striking ``States may 
                also use funds provided'' and inserting the following:
    ``(C) States may also use funds allocated'',
            (2) in the first sentence of paragraph (2) by inserting 
        ``under such paragraph'' after ``allocated'',
            (3) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (5) as 
        paragraphs (4) through (6), respectively, and
            (4) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
    ``(3)(A) Not less than $2,000,000 of the funds appropriated under 
paragraph (1)(A) for each fiscal year shall be made available to States 
for use by States and emergency feeding organizations to pay private 
nonprofit organizations to process, to package, or to transport 
commodities donated by growers for distribution by emergency feeding 
organizations.
    ``(B)(i) Except as provided in clause (ii), funds made available 
under subparagraph (A) shall be allocated among the States in the same 
proportion as provided for the allotment of additional commodities 
under section 214(f), except that each State shall be allocated not 
less than $10,000 for each fiscal year.
    ``(ii) If for any fiscal year a State demonstrates that it would be 
impracticable to expend in accordance with subparagraph (A) the entire 
amount allocated under clause (i) to such State for such fiscal year, 
by showing that--
            ``(I) insufficient commodities are offered for donation by 
        growers;
            ``(II) emergency feeding organizations in such State do not 
        wish to use the particular commodities so offered; or
            ``(III) processing, packaging, and transporting such 
        commodities would not be cost-effective;
then the Secretary shall reallocate, among States that do not make the 
demonstration specified in this clause, the part of such amount the 
State demonstrates would be impracticable for it to so expend.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION OF AMENDMENTS.

    (a) Effective Date.--Except as provided in subsection (b), this Act 
shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Application of Amendments.--The amendments made by this Act 
shall not apply with respect to fiscal years beginning before the date 
of the enactment of this Act.

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