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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 1939

To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to make funds

available for the processing, packaging, and transportation of growerdonated commodities by private nonprofit organizations.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

APRIL 29, 1993

Mr. PAYNE of Virginia (for himself, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. GOODLATTE,

Mr. PENNY, and Mrs. CLAYTON) introduced the following bill; which was

referred to the Committee on Agriculture

A BILL

To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to

make funds available for the processing, packaging, and

transportation of grower-donated commodities by private

nonprofit organizations.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Grower-Donated Com5 modities Act of 1993’’.
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1 SEC. 2. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR THE DISTRIBUTION

2 OF GROWER-DONATED COMMODITIES.

3 Section 204(a) of the Emergency Food Assistance

4 Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 612c note) is amended—

5 (1) in paragraph (1)—

6 (A) by inserting ‘‘(A)’’ after ‘‘(1)’’,

7 (B) in the second sentence by striking

8 ‘‘Funds’’ and inserting the following:

9 ‘‘(B) Except as provided in paragraph (3), funds’’,

10 and

11 (C) in the last sentence by striking ‘‘States

12 may also use funds provided’’ and inserting the

13 following:

14 ‘‘(C) States may also use funds allocated’’,

15 (2) in the first sentence of paragraph (2) by in16 serting ‘‘under such paragraph’’ after ‘‘allocated’’,

17 (3) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through

18 (5) as paragraphs (4) through (6), respectively, and

19 (4) by inserting after paragraph (2) the follow20 ing:

21 ‘‘(3)(A) Not less than $2,000,000 of the funds appro22 priated under paragraph (1)(A) for each fiscal year shall

23 be made available to States for use by States and emer24 gency feeding organizations to pay private nonprofit orga25 nizations to process, to package, or to transport commod-
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1 ities donated by growers for distribution by emergency

2 feeding organizations.

3 ‘‘(B)(i) Except as provided in clause (ii), funds made

4 available under subparagraph (A) shall be allocated among

5 the States in the same proportion as provided for the allot6 ment of additional commodities under section 214(f), ex7 cept that each State shall be allocated not less than

8 $10,000 for each fiscal year.

9 ‘‘(ii) If for any fiscal year a State demonstrates that

10 it would be impracticable to expend in accordance with

11 subparagraph (A) the entire amount allocated under

12 clause (i) to such State for such fiscal year, by showing

13 that—

14 ‘‘(I) insufficient commodities are offered for do15 nation by growers;

16 ‘‘(II) emergency feeding organizations in such

17 State do not wish to use the particular commodities

18 so offered; or

19 ‘‘(III) processing, packaging, and transporting

20 such commodities would not be cost-effective;

21 then the Secretary shall reallocate, among States that do

22 not make the demonstration specified in this clause, the

23 part of such amount the State demonstrates would be im24 practicable for it to so expend.’’.
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1 SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION OF AMENDMENTS.

2 (a) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Except as provided in sub3 section (b), this Act shall take effect on the date of the

4 enactment of this Act.

5 (b) APPLICATION OF AMENDMENTS.—The amend6 ments made by this Act shall not apply with respect to

7 fiscal years beginning before the date of the enactment

8 of this Act.

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