[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1683 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1683

To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to permit States to 
   use administrative funds to pay costs relating to the processing, 
   transporting, and distributing to eligible recipient agencies of 
                           donated wild game.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 14, 2001

  Mr. Harkin 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 amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to permit States to 
   use administrative funds to pay costs relating to the processing, 
   transporting, and distributing to eligible recipient agencies of 
                           donated wild game.

    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 ``Hunters Help the Hungry Act of 
2001''.

SEC. 2. USE OF ADMINISTRATIVE FUNDS FOR DONATED WILD GAME.

    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 ``$50,000,000'' and inserting 
        ``$70,000,000''; and
            (2) by inserting before the period at the end the 
        following: ``(including donated wild game, using not more than 
        a percentage established by the Secretary (by regulation) of 
        funds appropriated for a fiscal year)''.
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