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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4873 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4873

To increase the capacity of the food supply chain in the United States, 
  and create a more resilient, diverse, and secure United States food 
    supply chain, by codifying and expanding the Food Supply Chain 
                        Guaranteed Loan Program.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 25, 2023

    Mr. Khanna (for himself, Mr. Miller of Ohio, Ms. Brown, and Mr. 
  Molinaro) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL

 
To increase the capacity of the food supply chain in the United States, 
  and create a more resilient, diverse, and secure United States food 
    supply chain, by codifying and expanding the Food Supply Chain 
                        Guaranteed Loan Program.

    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 ``Food Supply Chain Capacity and 
Resiliency Act''.

SEC. 2. FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture (in this section 
referred to as the ``Secretary'') may guarantee loans of not more than 
$80,000,000 made to support new investments in the start-up or 
expansion of projects in the United States that will increase the 
capacity of the food supply chain in the United States to aggregate, 
process, manufacture, store, transport, wholesale, or distribute food.
    (b) Priorities.--In awarding loan guarantees under this section, 
the Secretary shall, when the amount available to carry out this 
section is less than the total of the amounts requested by applications 
under this section, give preference to loans for projects--
            (1) that create jobs in economically distressed 
        communities; or
            (2) as the Secretary deems appropriate to help create a 
        more resilient, diverse, and secure United States food supply 
        chain.
    (c) Nonsupplantation of Other Funds.--The Secretary shall use the 
amounts made available to carry out this section to supplement, and not 
supplant, funds provided under other Federal law or a State or local 
law.
    (d) Regulations.--The Secretary shall prescribe such regulations as 
may be necessary to carry out this section.
    (e) Limitation on Authorization of Appropriations.--
            (1) In general.--To carry out this section, there are 
        authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary not more than 
        $29,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028.
            (2) Administration.--Not more than $4,000,000 of the 
        amounts provided under paragraph (1) for each of fiscal years 
        2024 through 2028 may be used by the Secretary for 
        administrative purposes.
            (3) Availability.--Amounts made available under paragraph 
        (1) are authorized to remain available until expended.
    (f) Conforming Amendment.--Section 1001(b)(4) of the American 
Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (7 U.S.C. 7501 note) is amended by inserting 
``, except that this paragraph shall not be interpreted to authorize 
the Secretary to carry out any activity authorized by the Food Supply 
Chain Capacity and Resiliency Act'' before the period.
    (g) Effective Date.--This section shall take effect 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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