[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1540 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1540

      To extend and improve the emergency food assistance program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 11, 2001

Mr. Fitzgerald 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 extend and improve the emergency food assistance program.

    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. EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

    Section 204(a)(1) of the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 (7 
U.S.C. 7508(a)(1)) is amended in the first sentence--
            (1) by striking ``1991 through 2002'' and inserting ``2002 
        through 2011'';
            (2) by striking ``administrative''; and
            (3) by inserting ``storing,'' after ``processing,''.

SEC. 3. AVAILABILITY OF COMMODITIES FOR EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE 
              PROGRAM.

    Section 27 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2036) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``1997 through 2002'' and inserting 
                ``2002 through 2011''; and
                    (B) by striking ``$100,000,000'' and inserting 
                ``$140,000,000''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Use of Funds for Related Costs.--For each of fiscal years 
2002 through 2011, the Secretary shall use $10,000,000 of the funds 
made available under subsection (a) to pay the direct and indirect 
costs of the States relating to the processing, storing, transporting, 
and distributing to eligible recipient agencies of--
            ``(1) commodities purchased by the Secretary under 
        subsection (a); and
            ``(2) commodities acquired from other sources, including 
        commodities acquired by gleaning (as defined in section 111(a) 
        of the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988 (7 U.S.C. 612c note; 
        Public Law 100-435)).''.
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