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(4) making information regarding crop genetic 
data publicly available for researchers, plant breed-
ers, and the public (for example, through the provi-
sion of an accessible Internet site); 
(5) the operation and maintenance of a back-up 
facility wherein is stored duplicate samples of seeds, 
as a hedge against natural or man-made disasters; 
and 
(6) oversight designed to ensure international 
coordination of these actions and efficient, public ac-
cessibility to this diversity through a cost-effective 
system. 
(b) UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTION LIMIT.—The 
aggregate contributions of United States Government 
funds provided to the Trust shall not exceed 25 percent 
of the total of the funds contributed to the Trust from 
all sources. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION.—There are authorized to be ap-
propriated to carry out this section a total of $60,000,000 
over the period of fiscal year 2008 through fiscal year 
2012. 
SEC. 3015. REPORT ON EFFORTS TO IMPROVE PROCURE-
MENT PLANNING. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Adminis-
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trator of the United States Agency for International De-
velopment and the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees a report on 
efforts taken by both the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development and the Department of Agriculture 
to improve planning for food and transportation procure-
ment, including efforts to eliminate bunching of food pur-
chases. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The report required under sub-
section (a) should include, among other things, a descrip-
tion of efforts taken to— 
(1) improve coordination of food purchases by 
the United States Agency for International Develop-
ment and the Department of Agriculture; 
(2) increase flexibility in procurement sched-
ules; 
(3) increase utilization of historical analyses 
and forecasting; and 
(4) improve and streamline legal claims proc-
esses for resolving transportation disputes. 
(c) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres-
sional committees’’ means— 
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(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 
Committee on Agriculture of the House of Rep-
resentatives; and 
(2) the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
and Forestry of the Senate. 
SEC. 3016. INTERNATIONAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE UNDER 
THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961. 
For each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012, of 
the amounts made available to carry out section 491 of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2292), not 
less than $40,000,000 for each such fiscal year is author-
ized be made available for the purposes of famine preven-
tion and relief under such section. 
TITLE IV—NUTRITION 
PROGRAMS 
Subtitle A—Food Stamp Program 
Sec. 4001. Renaming the food stamp program. 
Sec. 4002. Definition of drug addiction or alcoholic treatment and rehabilita-
tion program. 
Sec. 4003. Nutrition education. 
Sec. 4004. Food distribution on Indian reservations. 
Sec. 4005. Excluding combat related pay from countable income. 
Sec. 4006. Increasing the standard deduction. 
Sec. 4007. Excluding dependent care expenses. 
Sec. 4008. Adjusting countable resources for inflation. 
Sec. 4009. Excluding education accounts from countable income. 
Sec. 4010. Excluding retirement accounts from countable income. 
Sec. 4011. Deobligate food stamp coupons. 
Sec. 4012. Allow for the accrual of benefits. 
Sec. 4013. Increasing the minimum benefit. 
Sec. 4014. State option for telephonic signature. 
Sec. 4015. Review of major changes in program design. 
Sec. 4016. Grants for simple application and eligibility determination systems 
and improved access to benefits. 
Sec. 4017. Civil money penalties and disqualification of retail food stores and 
wholesale food concerns. 
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Sec. 4018. Major systems failures. 
Sec. 4019. Funding of employment and training programs. 
Sec. 4020. Reductions in payments for administrative costs. 
Sec. 4021. Cash payment pilot projects. 
Sec. 4022. Findings of Congress regarding Secure Supplemental Nutrition As-
sistance program nutrition education. 
Sec. 4023. Nutrition education and promotion initiative to address obesity. 
Sec. 4024. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 4025. Consolidated block grants for Puerto Rico and American Samoa. 
Sec. 4026. Study on comparable access to Secure Supplemental Nutrition As-
sistance Program benefits for Puerto Rico. 
Sec. 4027. Reauthorization of community food project competitive grants. 
Sec. 4028. Emergency food assistance program. 
Subtitle B—Commodity Distribution 
Sec. 4201. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 4202. Distribution of surplus commodities; special nutrition projects. 
Sec. 4203. Commodity distribution program. 
Subtitle C—Child Nutrition and Related Programs 
Sec. 4301. Purchase of fresh fruits and vegetables for distribution to schools 
and service institutions. 
Sec. 4302. Buy American requirements. 
Sec. 4303. Expansion of fresh fruit and vegetable program. 
Sec. 4304. Purchases of locally produced foods. 
Subtitle D—Miscellaneous 
Sec. 4401. Seniors farmers’ market nutrition program. 
Sec. 4402. Congressional Hunger Center. 
Sec. 4403. Joint nutrition monitoring and related research activities. 
Sec. 4404 Sense of the Congress. 
Subtitle A—Food Stamp Program 
SEC. 4001. RENAMING THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM. 
(a) AMENDMENTS TO THE FOOD STAMP ACT OF 
1977.— 
(1) REFERENCES AMENDED.—The provisions of 
the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et 
seq.)— 
(A) specified in paragraph (2)(A) are 
amended in the section heading by striking 
‘‘FOOD STAMP’’ each place it appears and in-
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serting ‘‘SECURE
SUPPLEMENTAL
NUTRI-
TION ASSISTANCE’’; 
(B) specified in paragraph (2)(B) are 
amended in the subsection heading by striking 
‘‘FOOD STAMP’’ each place it appears and in-
serting ‘‘SECURE
SUPPLEMENTAL
NUTRITION 
ASSISTANCE’’; 
(C) specified in paragraph (2)(C) are 
amended by striking each place it appears ‘‘food 
stamp recipient’’ and inserting ‘‘member of a 
household that receives Secure Supplemental 
Nutrition Assistance Program benefits’’, 
(D) specified in paragraph (2)(D) are 
amended by striking ‘‘food stamp recipients’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘members 
of households that receive Secure Supplemental 
Nutrition Assistance Program benefits’’, 
(E) specified in paragraph (2)(E) are 
amended by striking ‘‘food stamp households’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘households 
that receive Secure Supplemental Nutrition As-
sistance Program benefits’’; 
(F) specified in paragraph (2)(F) are 
amended by striking ‘‘Simplified Food Stamp 
Program’’ each place it appears and inserting 
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‘‘Simplified Secure Supplemental Nutrition As-
sistance Program’’; 
(G) specified in paragraph (2)(H) are 
amended by striking ‘‘food stamp participants’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘partici-
pants in the Secure Supplemental Nutrition As-
sistance Program’’; 
(H) specified in paragraph (2)(I) are 
amended by striking ‘‘food stamp informational 
activities’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘informational activities relating to the Secure 
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’’; 
(I) specified in paragraph (2)(J) are 
amended by striking ‘‘food stamp caseload’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘caseload 
under the Secure Supplemental Nutrition As-
sistance Program’’; 
(J) specified in paragraph (2)(K) are 
amended by striking ‘‘State’s food stamp house-
holds’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘the 
number of households in the State receiving Se-
cure Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Pro-
gram benefits’’; 
(K) specified in paragraph (2)(L) are 
amended in the section heading by striking 
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‘‘FOOD STAMP PORTION’’ each place it ap-
pears 
and 
inserting 
‘‘SECURE
SUPPLE-
MENTAL
NUTRITION
ASSISTANCE
PRO-
GRAM BENEFITS’’; 
(L) specified in paragraph (2)(M) are 
amended by striking ‘‘food stamps’’ each place 
it appears and inserting ‘‘Secure Supplemental 
Assistance Nutrition Program benefits’’; 
(M) specified in paragraph (2)(N) are 
amended by striking ‘‘Food stamp program’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Secure 
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’’; 
(N) specified in paragraph (2)(o) are 
amended by striking ‘‘food stamp program ben-
efits’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Se-
cure Supplemental Nutrition Program bene-
fits’’; and 
(O) specified in paragraph (2)(O) are 
amended by striking ‘‘food stamp program’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Secure 
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Nutrition 
Program’’. 
(2) PROVISIONS
REFERRED
TO.—The provi-
sions of the of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 referred 
to in paragraph (1) are the following: 
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(A) Sections 4 and 26. 
(B) Section 6(j). 
(C) Section 6(o)(6)(A)(ii). 
(D)(i) Subparagraphs (D) and (E) of sec-
tion 6(o)(6); 
(ii) sections 16(h)(1)(E)(i) and 12(a); and 
(iii) paragraphs (1)(B)(ii)(II) and (3)(B) 
of section 17(b). 
(E) Sections 7(h)(3)(B)(ii), 9(b)(1), 12(a), 
and 17(b)(1)(B)(ii)(I). 
(F) Sections 11(e)(25) and 26(b). 
(G) Section 11(f)(2)(B). 
(H) Section 16(a). 
(I) Section 16(e)(9)(C). 
(J) Section 17(b)(1)(B)(iii)(I). 
(K) Section 22. 
(L)(i) Subsections (d)(3) and (o)(6)(A)(i) 
of section 6; 
(ii) paragraphs (2)(B)(v)(II) and (14) of 
section 11(e); and 
(iii) sections 12(e)(16), 17(b)(3)(C), and 
18(a)(3)(A)(ii). 
(M) Section 3(h). 
(N)(i) In section 6— 
(I) subsection (h); and 
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(II) in subsection (o)— 
(aa) paragraph (2); and 
(bb) subclauses (IV) and (V) of 
paragraph (6)(A)(ii). 
(ii) Section 7(k)(2). 
(iii) In section 11— 
(I) subsection (e)(25)(A); 
(II) paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of 
subsection (s); and 
(III) subsection (t)(1)(B). 
(iv) In section 17— 
(I) subsection (a)(2); 
(II) paragraphs (1)(A), (2), and 
(3)(D) of subsection (b); 
(III) paragraphs (1)(B), (2)(C)(ii), 
and (3)(E) of subsection (d); and 
(IV) subsections (e) and (f). 
(v) Section 21(d)(3). 
(O)(i) Sections 2, 3(h), and 4. 
(ii) In section 5— 
(I) subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d); 
(II) clauses (ii)(III) and (iv)(IV) of 
subsection (e)(6)(C); 
(III) 
paragraphs 
(1), 
(3), 
and 
(6)(B)(iv) of subsection (g); and 
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(IV) 
subsections 
(h)(2)(A) 
and 
(k)(4)(B). 
(iii) In section 6— 
(I) subsections (a) and (b); 
(II) in subsection (d)(1)— 
(aa) subparagraphs (A) and (B); 
(bb) clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) of 
subparagraph (C); and 
(cc) clauses (v) and (vi) of sub-
paragraph (D); 
(III) paragraphs (2)(C), (3), and 
(4)(A)(i) of subsection (d); 
(IV) subsections (e), (f), and (h); 
(V) paragraphs (1) and (2) of sub-
section (i); and 
(VI) 
subsections 
(j), 
(k), 
(l)(1), 
(m)(1), (n), (o)(5)(A); 
(iv) In section 7— 
(I) subsections (a), (b), and (g); 
(II) paragraphs (1) and (2)(B) of 
subsection (j); and 
(III) in subsection (k)— 
(aa) paragraph (3); and 
(bb) subparagraphs (B)(ii) and 
(C) of paragraph (4). 
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