[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 662 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 662


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 13, 2023

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 AN ACT


 
 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.

SEC. 3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION.

    (a) In General.--This Act and the amendments made by this Act are 
designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the 
Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)).
    (b) Designation in Senate.--In the Senate, this Act and the 
amendment made by this section are designated as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 4001(a)(1) of S. Con. Res. 14 (117th 
Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 
2022.

            Passed the House of Representatives June 12, 2023.

            Attest:

                                             CHERYL L. JOHNSON,

                                                                 Clerk.