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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 2578 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to allow certain |
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| 6 | 6 | | States to directly purchase commodities, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JULY27, 2023 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. H |
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| 10 | 10 | | IRONOintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 11 | 11 | | to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to |
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| 14 | 14 | | allow certain States to directly purchase commodities, |
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| 15 | 15 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. DIRECT PURCHASE OF COMMODITIES. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Section 202 of the Emergency Food Assistance Act 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 7502) is amended by inserting after 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | subsection (a) the following: 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | ‘‘(b) D |
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| 23 | 23 | | IRECTPURCHASE OFCOMMODITIES.— 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | ‘‘(1) D |
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| 25 | 25 | | EFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 8 |
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| 26 | 26 | | ‘‘(A) E |
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| 27 | 27 | | LIGIBLE STATE.—The term ‘eligible 9 |
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| 28 | 28 | | State’ has the meaning given the term in sec-10 |
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| 30 | 30 | | kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | •S 2578 IS |
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| 32 | 32 | | tion 4206(b) of the Agriculture Improvement 1 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Act of 2018 (7 U.S.C. 7518(b)). 2 |
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| 34 | 34 | | ‘‘(B) E |
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| 35 | 35 | | NTITLEMENT FUNDS .—The term 3 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ‘entitlement funds’, with respect to an eligible 4 |
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| 37 | 37 | | State, means the dollar amount used by the 5 |
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| 38 | 38 | | Secretary to purchase commodities pursuant to 6 |
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| 39 | 39 | | section 27 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 7 |
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| 40 | 40 | | 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2036) to distribute to the eligi-8 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ble State in accordance with section 214. 9 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ‘‘(2) D |
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| 43 | 43 | | IRECT PURCHASE.—The Secretary shall 10 |
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| 44 | 44 | | allow an eligible State to elect to receive all of the 11 |
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| 45 | 45 | | entitlement funds of the eligible State as cash to 12 |
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| 46 | 46 | | make direct purchases of commodities through the 13 |
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| 47 | 47 | | private commercial marketplace.’’. 14 |
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