Title: Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2020 for the Department of Agriculture to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
This bill provides $50 billion in FY2020 supplemental appropriations for the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support agricultural producers impacted by the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic.
The supplemental appropriations are designated as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits.
USDA may not apply any payment limitations to payments made to producers using funding provided by this bill, except to ensure that the total payments made to producers do not exceed the total damages related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6611 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6611

    Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2020 for the 
Department of Agriculture to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 23, 2020

  Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Allen, Mr. Baird, Mr. 
      Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Hagedorn, Mr. Kelly of 
  Mississippi, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Rouzer, Mr. Thompson of 
 Pennsylvania, Mrs. Hartzler, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, Mr. Collins 
 of Georgia, Mr. Cuellar, Mrs. Axne, Mr. Bost, Mr. Abraham, Mr. Carter 
of Georgia, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Mr. Schrader, Mr. Rice of South 
Carolina, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Woodall, Mr. Yoho, Ms. Spanberger, Mr. Wilson 
 of South Carolina, Mr. O'Halleran, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, Mr. 
 Soto, Mr. Dunn, and Ms. Schrier) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 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


 
    Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2020 for the 
Department of Agriculture 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. APPROPRIATION FOR USDA TO RESPOND TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

    (a) In General.--There is appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for fiscal year 2020 for an 
additional amount for the ``Department of Agriculture--Office of the 
Secretary'', $50,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, to 
prevent, prepare for, and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by providing 
support for agricultural producers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, 
provided that the Secretary shall not apply any limitation on payments 
made to producers using funding provided under this section, except to 
ensure that total payments made to producers do not exceed total 
damages related to the COVID-19 pandemic, as determined by the 
Secretary.
    (b) Emergency Designation.--The amount appropriated by subsection 
(a) is 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 and shall only be available if 
the President subsequently so designates such amount and transmits such 
designation to the Congress.
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