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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 5059
To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to allow certain
States to directly purchase commodities, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY27, 2023
Ms. T
OKUDA(for herself, Mr. MOYLAN, Mrs. PELTOLA, Mr. SABLAN, and Mr.
C
ASE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Agriculture
A BILL
To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to
allow certain States to directly purchase commodities,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. DIRECT PURCHASE OF COMMODITIES. 3
Section 202 of the Emergency Food Assistance Act 4
of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 7502) is amended by inserting after 5
subsection (a) the following: 6
‘‘(b) D
IRECTPURCHASE OFCOMMODITIES.— 7
‘‘(1) D
EFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 8
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‘‘(A) ELIGIBLE STATE.—The term ‘eligible 1
State’ has the meaning given the term in sec-2
tion 4206(b) of the Agriculture Improvement 3
Act of 2018 (7 U.S.C. 7518(b)). 4
‘‘(B) E
NTITLEMENT FUNDS .—The term 5
‘entitlement funds’, with respect to an eligible 6
State, means the dollar amount used by the 7
Secretary to purchase commodities pursuant to 8
section 27 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 9
2008 (7 U.S.C. 2036) to distribute to the eligi-10
ble State in accordance with section 214. 11
‘‘(2) D
IRECT PURCHASE.—The Secretary shall 12
allow an eligible State to elect to receive all of the 13
entitlement funds of the eligible State as cash to 14
make direct purchases of commodities through the 15
private commercial marketplace.’’. 16
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