Making Rural America Count Act

Bill: 115-hr-3890
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Valadao, David G. [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2017-09-28
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment

Economic development

Rural conditions and development
Latest action: action_date: 2017-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-09-28
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Making Rural America Count Act </b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the Department of Agriculture from including incarcerated prison populations when determining eligibility or the levels of assistance for rural development programs. </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3890 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 28, 2017 Mr. Valadao (for himself, Mr. Duffy , Mr. Smucker , and Mr. Blum ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To provide that determinations of eligibility and level of assistance for rural development programs shall be made without regard to incarcerated prisoner populations.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Making Rural America Count Act . 2. Determinations of eligibility and level of assistance for rural development programs to be made without regard to incarcerated prisoner populations For the purposes of determining eligibility or level of assistance for Rural Development programs, the Secretary of Agriculture shall not include incarcerated prison populations.