[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 305 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 305

To utilize the most current Federal census data in the distribution of 
        Federal funds for agriculture, nutrition, and forestry.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             February 3 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

   Mr. Mack 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 utilize the most current Federal census data in the distribution of 
        Federal funds for agriculture, nutrition, and forestry.

    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 ``Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 
Fair Share Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. AGRICULTURE, NUTRITION, AND FORESTRY.

    (a) Agriculture Experiment Stations.--Section 3 of the Act entitled 
``An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection 
with the colleges established in the several States under the 
provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-
two, and of the acts supplementary thereto'', approved March 2, 1887 
(commonly known as the Hatch Act of 1887) (7 U.S.C. 361c(c)(2)) is 
amended in subsection (c)(2), by striking ``as determined by the last 
preceding decennial census current at the time each such additional sum 
is first appropriated'' each place it appears and inserting in lieu 
thereof ``according to the latest available estimates prepared by the 
Department of Commerce''.
    (b) Agricultural Research at 1890 Land Grant Colleges, Including 
Tuskegee Institute.--Section 1445 of the National Agricultural Research 
Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3222(b)(2)(B)) is 
amended in subsection (b)(2)(B), by striking ``as determined by the 
last preceding decennial census current at the time each such 
additional sum is first appropriated'' each place it appears and 
inserting in each such place ``according to the latest available 
estimates prepared by the Department of Commerce''.
    (c) Federal Extension Service.--Section 3 of the Act of May 8, 1914 
(7 U.S.C. 343(c)(2)) (commonly known as the Smith-Lever Act) is amended 
in subsection (c)(2)--
            (1) by striking ``as determined by the census'' each place 
        it appears and inserting in each such place ``according to the 
        latest available estimates prepared by the Department of 
        Commerce'';
            (2) by striking ``on the basis of the decennial census 
        current at the time such appropriation is first made'' and 
        inserting in lieu thereof ``according to the latest available 
        estimates prepared by the Department of Commerce''; and
            (3) by striking ``on the basis of decennial census current 
        at the time such increase is first appropriated'' and inserting 
        in lieu thereof ``according to the latest available estimates 
        prepared by the Department of Commerce''.
    (d) Nutrition Education Program.--Section 1425 of the National 
Agricultural Research, Extension, And Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 
U.S.C. 3175(c)(2)(B)(ii)), is amended in subsection (b) by striking 
``as determined by the last preceding decennial census at the time each 
such additional amount is first appropriated'' and inserting in lieu 
thereof ``according to the latest estimates prepared by the Department 
of Commerce''.

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