[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 167 (Tuesday, October 22, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S6045]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 961. Ms. CORTEZ MASTO (for herself and Mr. Lankford) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 948 proposed by Mr. 
Shelby to the bill H.R. 3055, making appropriations for the Departments 
of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title VII of division B, insert 
     the following:


 report on food distribution programs reaching underserved populations

       Sec. 7__. The Secretary of Agriculture shall conduct a 
     study on the challenges that the food distribution program on 
     Indian reservations established under section 4(b) of the 
     Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2013(b)) and other 
     food distribution programs administered by the Secretary of 
     Agriculture face in reaching underserved populations, with an 
     emphasis on the homebound and the elderly, to better capture 
     data on the population of people unable to physically travel 
     to a distribution location for food.
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