[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2185 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2185

    To amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require the Secretary of 
 Agriculture to purchase additional commodities for distribution; and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 14, 2001

 Mr. Goodlatte (for himself, Mr. Hall of Ohio, Ms. Hart, Mr. Cooksey, 
and Mrs. Emerson) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                      the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require the Secretary of 
 Agriculture to purchase additional commodities for distribution; 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 ``Emergency Food Assistance Program 
Enhancement Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. USE OF FUNDS TO PURCHASE COMMODITIES.

    Section 16(h) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2025(h)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(C)--
                    (A) by striking ``Reallocation.--'' and inserting 
                ``Reallocation of funds; use of funds.--(i)'', and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(ii) Funds available under clause (i) that are 
                not reallocated under such clause, but not to exceed 
                $40,000,000 for such fiscal year, shall be used by the 
                Secretary to purchase and distribute commodities in the 
                manner described in section 27 and in addition to the 
                dollar amount specified in such section, except that 
                not to exceed $10,000,000 of the funds available for 
                use under this clause shall be used by the Secretary to 
                pay for the direct and indirect costs of the States 
                related to the processing, storage, transporting, and 
                distributing to eligible recipient agencies (as defined 
                in section 201A of the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 
                1983 (7 U.S.C. 7105)) of--
                            ``(I) commodities provided by the Secretary 
                        under this clause and section 27; and
                            ``(II) commodities secured from other 
                        sources, including commodities secured by 
                        gleaning (as defined in section 111 of the 
                        Hunger Relief Act of 1988 (7 U.S.C. 612c 
                        note)).'', and
            (2) in paragraph (4) by inserting ``by the State agency'' 
        after ``used'' each place it appears.

SEC. 3. RELATED AMENDMENT.

    The 1st sentence of section 204(a)(1) of the Emergency Food 
Assistance Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 7508) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``administrative'', and
            (2) by inserting ``storage,'' after ``processing,''.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on 
October 1, 2001.
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