[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1930 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1930

To amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to improve the 
     administration of claims and obligations of the Farmers Home 
                Administration, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             March 15 (legislative day, February 22), 1994

 Mr. Leahy (for himself and Mr. Conrad) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 
                        Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to improve the 
     administration of claims and obligations of the Farmers Home 
                Administration, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Farmers Home Administration 
Improvement Act of 1994''.

SEC. 2. DELINQUENT FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION OBLIGATIONS.

    Section 331 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 
U.S.C. 1981) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(c) The Secretary may use for the prosecution or defense of any 
claim or obligation described in subsection (b)(5) the Attorney 
General, the General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture, or a 
private attorney who has entered into a contract with the Secretary.''.

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