Title: Farm and Agricultural Worker Safety Education Act
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Farm and Agricultural Worker Safety Education Act
This bill expands the Rural Health and Safety Education Competitive Grants Program of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to authorize USDA to provide grants for the dissemination to farm, agricultural workers, and others in the agricultural supply chain of information and training concerning best practices, relevant health and safety guidance, guidelines, requirements, or information related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Additionally, the bill provides additional prioritization flexibility through FY2025 for USDA to combat substance use disorder in rural America.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8327 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8327

 To provide for the dissemination to farm and agricultural workers of 
   information and training on best practices used to respond to the 
               COVID-19 pandemic, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 21, 2020

  Mr. Hagedorn (for himself and Mr. Cuellar) introduced the following 
        bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the dissemination to farm and agricultural workers of 
   information and training on best practices used to respond to the 
               COVID-19 pandemic, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Farm and Agricultural Worker Safety 
Education Act''.

SEC. 2. DISSEMINATION TO FARM AND AGRICULTURAL WORKERS OF INFORMATION 
              AND TRAINING ON BEST PRACTICES USED TO RESPOND TO THE 
              COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

    (a) In General.--Section 502(i)(1)(B) of the Rural Development Act 
of 1972 (7 U.S.C. 2662(i)(1)(B)) is amended--
            (1) in the subparagraph heading, by inserting ``and 
        agricultural worker'' before ``safety'';
            (2) in the matter preceding clause (i)--
                    (A) by inserting ``and agricultural worker'' before 
                ``safety education''; and
                    (B) by striking ``timber harvesters, and farm 
                families'' and inserting ``agricultural processors and 
                handlers, timber harvesters, farm families, and other 
                participants in the agricultural supply chain'';
            (3) in clause (iii), by striking ``dermititis'' and 
        inserting ``dermatitis'';
            (4) in clause (v), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (5) in clause (vi), by striking the period and inserting 
        ``; and''; and
            (6) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(vii) other relevant health and safety 
                        guidance, guidelines, requirements, or 
                        information.''.
    (b) Limitations on Authorization of Appropriations.--For the 
purpose of disseminating information related to the COVID-19 pandemic 
under section 502(i)(1)(B) of the Rural Development Act of 1972, there 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture 
$50,000,000 for fiscal year 2021, which is authorized to remain 
available through fiscal year 2026.

SEC. 3. RURAL HEALTH DISRUPTION PRIORITIZATION FLEXIBILITY.

    Section 6101(a) of the Agricultural Act of 2018 (132 Stat. 4726-
4727; Public Law 115-334) is amended by striking paragraph (2) and 
redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2).
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