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Union Calendar No. 93 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2424 
[Report No. 117–129] 
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program under which 
the Secretary awards grants to States or State departments of agri-
culture for the purposes of providing support to agricultural fairs for 
losses sustained due to COVID–19. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 8, 2021 
Mr. PANETTA (for himself, Mr. LONG, Mr. LEVIN of California, and Mr. 
NEWHOUSE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Agriculture 
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021 
Additional sponsors: Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. COSTA, Mr. DEFAZIO, Ms. KAPTUR, 
Ms. STEFANIK, Mr. WELCH, Ms. CRAIG, Mr. ROSE, Mr. THOMPSON of 
California, Mr. FORTENBERRY, Mr. KAHELE, Mr. KIND, Mr. KHANNA, 
Mr. MANN, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mrs. BICE of Oklahoma, Ms. MCCOLLUM, 
Mr. JACOBS of New York, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. TRONE, Mr. MEUSER, Ms. 
PINGREE, Mr. CARL, Mr. DELGADO, Mr. GIMENEZ, Ms. KUSTER, Mr. 
O’HALLERAN, Ms. SALAZAR, and Mr. SABLAN 
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021 
Reported with an amendment; committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on April 8, 2021] 
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A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program 
under which the Secretary awards grants to States or 
State departments of agriculture for the purposes of 
providing support to agricultural fairs for losses sus-
tained due to COVID–19. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This act may be cited as the ‘‘Agricultural Fairs Res-
cue Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AGRICULTURAL FAIR RESCUE GRANTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date on which funds are made available to carry out this 
section, the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Ad-
ministrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service, shall 
award a grant to each State department of agriculture (or 
other appropriate State agency assigned with the promotion 
of agricultural fairs) for the purposes of providing support 
to eligible agricultural fairs for losses sustained by such 
fairs due to COVID–19. 
(b) AMOUNT OF GRANT.—The amount of a grant to 
a State or State department of agriculture under this sec-
tion shall be based on the difference between the average 
attendance at agricultural fairs in the State for a calendar 
year occurring during the 3-calendar-year period beginning 
with calendar year 2017 (or over a shorter period, if attend-
ance data is not available for the entire 3-calendar-year pe-
riod) compared to calendar year 2020. 
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