[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1676 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1676

  To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to provide 
      mandatory funding from the Commodity Credit Corporation for 
  reimbursement payments to geographically disadvantaged farmers and 
                   ranchers, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 18, 2023

 Ms. Hirono (for herself, Mr. Sullivan, and Mr. Schatz) 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 Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to provide 
      mandatory funding from the Commodity Credit Corporation for 
  reimbursement payments to geographically disadvantaged farmers and 
                   ranchers, 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 ``RTCP Revitalization Act''.

SEC. 2. COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION FUNDING FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY 
              DISADVANTAGED FARMERS AND RANCHERS.

    Section 1621 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 8792) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by striking ``Subject to the 
        availability of funds under subsection (d), the Secretary'' and 
        inserting ``The Secretary'';
            (2) in subsection (c)(3), by striking subparagraph (B) and 
        inserting the following:
                    ``(B) Payment limitations.--The Secretary may not 
                impose a limitation on the amount of payments received 
                by a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher 
                under this section for any fiscal year in which the 
                amount made available for payments under this section 
                is equal to or greater than the amount that may be 
                provided in accordance with this section with respect 
                to applications received by the Secretary for that 
                fiscal year.''; and
            (3) in subsection (d), by striking the subsection 
        designation and heading and all that follows through ``There 
        are'' and inserting the following:
    ``(d) Funding.--
            ``(1) Mandatory funding.--Of the funds of the Commodity 
        Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall use to carry out this 
        section--
                    ``(A) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2024;
                    ``(B) $11,000,000 for fiscal year 2025;
                    ``(C) $12,000,000 for fiscal year 2026;
                    ``(D) $13,000,000 for fiscal year 2027;
                    ``(E) $14,000,000 for fiscal year 2028; and
                    ``(F) $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2029 and each 
                fiscal year thereafter.
            ``(2) Authorization of appropriations.--There are''.
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