Title: To provide for expedited additional support under the farm and ranch stress assistance network, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to award expedited additional grants for FY2020, within 60 days, to certain entities under the farm and ranch stress assistance network. Each awarded grant may not exceed $500,000. The bill also provides additional funding for the program.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7047 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7047

 To provide for expedited additional support under the farm and ranch 
           stress assistance network, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 28, 2020

Mr. Emmer (for himself, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
  Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for expedited additional support under the farm and ranch 
           stress assistance network, 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. EXPEDITED ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR FARM AND RANCH STRESS 
              ASSISTANCE NETWORK.

    Section 7522 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 5936) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``In General.--The Secretary'' and 
                inserting the following: ``In General.--
            ``(1) Competitive grants.--The Secretary''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Expedited additional awards for fiscal year 2020.--
        Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this 
        paragraph, from the amounts made available under subsection 
        (d)(1), the Secretary shall award to each eligible recipient 
        that meets the criteria determined by the Secretary, and 
        submits an application within the time period specified by the 
        Secretary, an amount to be determined by the Secretary, except 
        in no case may such amount exceed $500,000.''; and
            (2) by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:
    ``(d) Funding.--
            ``(1) Fiscal year 2020 emergency funding.--Out of funds in 
        the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, there is appropriated 
        to carry out this section $10,000,000 to remain available until 
        September 30, 2021. Such funds are designated by the Congress 
        as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
        251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
        Control Act of 1985.
            ``(2) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
        to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this section 
        $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2023.''.
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