[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 662 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 662

 To amend the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 to 
  improve disaster relief funding for agricultural producers, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 31, 2023

    Mr. C. Scott Franklin of Florida (for himself and Ms. Wasserman 
   Schultz) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 to 
  improve disaster relief funding for agricultural producers, 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 ``Block Grant Assistance Act of 
2023''.

SEC. 2. DISASTER RELIEF SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2023 
              AMENDMENT.

    Title I of the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 
2023 (division N of Public Law 117-328), is amended, in the matter 
under the heading ``Office of the Secretary'' under the heading 
``Processing, Research and Marketing'' under the heading ``AGRICULTURAL 
PROGRAMS'' under the heading ``DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE'', by 
inserting ``: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture may 
provide assistance for losses described under this heading in this Act 
in the form of block grants to eligible States and territories'' before 
the period at the end.
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