[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 194 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 194

   To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to require the 
    Secretary of Agriculture to help offset the costs of intrastate 
transportation, storage, and distribution of bonus commodities provided 
    to States and food assistance agencies under the emergency food 
                          assistance program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 9, 2009

 Mr. Casey (for himself, Ms. Snowe, and Mr. Voinovich) 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 require the 
    Secretary of Agriculture to help offset the costs of intrastate 
transportation, storage, and distribution of bonus commodities provided 
    to States and food assistance agencies under 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 ``Bonus TEFAP Assistance Act of 
2009''.

SEC. 2. ASSISTANCE FOR COSTS OF DISTRIBUTING BONUS COMMODITIES.

    (a) Purposes.--The purposes of this section are--
            (1) to encourage States and food assistance agencies to 
        accept commodities acquired by the Secretary of Agriculture for 
        farm support and surplus removal activities; and
            (2) to offset the costs of the States and food assistance 
        agencies for the intrastate transportation, storage, and 
        distribution of the commodities.
    (b) Costs of Distributing Bonus Commodities.--Section 202 of the 
Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 7502) is amended by 
inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) Costs of Distributing Bonus Commodities.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall use funds made 
        available under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 
        U.S.C. 612c), to provide funding described in paragraph (2) to 
        eligible recipient agencies to offset the costs of the agencies 
        for intrastate transportation, storage, and distribution of 
        commodities described in subsection (a).
            ``(2) Funding.--The Secretary shall provide funding 
        described in paragraph (1) to an eligible recipient agency at a 
        rate equal to the lower of $0.05 per pound or $0.05 per dollar 
        value of commodities described in subsection (a) that are made 
        available under this Act to, and accepted by, the eligible 
        recipient agency.''.
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