[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1499 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1499

 To amend the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act of 1986 to provide for 
     direct and indirect assistance for certain persons engaged in 
             commercial fisheries, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 21, 1995

 Mr. Hatfield introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act of 1986 to provide for 
     direct and indirect assistance for certain persons engaged in 
             commercial fisheries, 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 ``Fishing Families Relief Act of 
1995''.

SEC 2. ASSISTANCE PROVIDED FROM FISHERY RESOURCE DISASTER RELIEF FUNDS.

    Section 308(d) of the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act of 1986 (16 
U.S.C. 4107(d)) is amended--
            (1) in the heading, by striking ``Grants'' and inserting 
        ``Assistance'';
            (2) in paragraph (1), by striking ``award grants to persons 
        engaged in commercial fisheries, for uninsured losses 
        determined by the Secretary to have been suffered'' and 
        inserting ``assist persons engaged in commercial fisheries by 
        providing direct assistance to those persons or by providing 
        indirect assistance to those persons though assistance to 
        agencies of States and political subdivisions thereof and to 
        nonprofit organizations, for projects or other measures 
        designed to alleviate harm that the Secretary determines was 
        incurred'';
            (3) in paragraph (3), by striking ``a grant'' and inserting 
        ``direct assistance to a person'';
            (4) by striking paragraph (4);
            (5) by redesignating paragraphs (5) and (6) as paragraphs 
        (4) and (5), respectively; and
            (6) in paragraph (4), as so redesignated, by striking ``for 
        awarding grants'' and all that follows through the end of the 
        paragraph and inserting ``for providing assistance under this 
        subsection.''.
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