[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6229 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6229

    To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to 
  reauthorize the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and 
            Child Nutrition Program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2006

  Mr. McGovern (for himself, Mrs. Emerson, Mr. Lantos, Mr. Hyde, Mr. 
 Skelton, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Pomeroy, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Ms. DeLauro, 
    Mr. Leach, Ms. Herseth, Mr. Osborne, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Walsh, Mr. 
Boswell, Mr. Boustany, Mr. McCotter, Mr. Payne, Mr. Shimkus, Mr. Moore 
  of Kansas, Mr. English of Pennsylvania, Mr. Snyder, Ms. McCollum of 
Minnesota, Ms. Solis, and Mr. Moran of Kansas) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in 
 addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to 
      be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to 
  reauthorize the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and 
            Child Nutrition Program, 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. REAUTHORIZATION OF MCGOVERN-DOLE INTERNATIONAL FOOD FOR 
              EDUCATION AND CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAM.

    (a) Administration of Program.--Section 3107 of the Farm Security 
and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o-1) is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1) of subsection 
        (d), by striking ``The President shall designate 1 or more 
        Federal agencies to'' and inserting ``The Secretary shall'';
            (2) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) of subsection 
        (f)(2), by striking ``implementing agency'' and inserting 
        ``Secretary''; and
            (3) in subsections (c)(2)(B), (f)(1), (h)(1) and (2), and 
        (i), by striking ``President'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``Secretary''.
    (b) Funding.--Section 3107(l) of the Farm Security and Rural 
Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o-1(l)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), to read as follows:
            ``(1) Use of commodity credit corporation funds.--Of the 
        funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall 
        use the following amounts for the following fiscal years to 
        carry out this section:
                    ``(A) Not less than $250,000,000 for fiscal year 
                2008.
                    ``(B) Not less than $400,000,000 for fiscal year 
                2009.
                    ``(C) Not less than $550,000,000 for fiscal year 
                2010.
                    ``(D) Not less than $700,000,000 for fiscal year 
                2011.
                    ``(E) Not less than $850,000,000 for fiscal year 
                2012.'';
            (2) in paragraph (2), to read as follows:
            ``(2) Authorization of appropriations.--There are 
        authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to 
        carry out this section for each of the fiscal years 2008 
        through 2012.''; and
            (3) in paragraph (3), by striking ``any Federal agency 
        implementing or assisting'' and inserting ``the Department of 
        Agriculture or any other Federal agency assisting''.
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