[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3615 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3615

    To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to authorize 
 appropriations to purchase and to make available to emergency feeding 
organizations additional commodities for distribution to needy persons.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 1, 1998

Mr. Hall  of Ohio (for himself, Mr. Oberstar, Mr. Hastings of Florida, 
Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Olver, Mr. Filner, Mr. Lantos, Mr. Frank of 
Massachusetts, Mr. Frost, Mr. Rahall, Mr. Kennedy of Rhode Island, Ms. 
Lofgren, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mrs. Emerson, Mr. Strickland, Ms. Furse, 
    Mr. Faleomavaega, Mr. Sawyer, Mr. Gonzalez, Ms. Kaptur, and Mr. 
  Kucinich) 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 authorize 
 appropriations to purchase and to make available to emergency feeding 
organizations additional commodities for distribution to needy persons.

    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 ``Food Banks Relief Act of 1998''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT.

    Section 214 of the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 
7515) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Authorization of Appropriations.--(1) There is authorized to 
be appropriated $100,000,000 to purchase and make available additional 
commodities under this section.
    ``(2) Not more than 15 percent of the amount appropriated under 
paragraph (1) may be used for direct expenses (as defined in section 
204(a)(2)) incurred by emergency feeding organizations to distribute 
such commodities to needy persons.''.
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