US Congress Senate Bill 3655 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on May 7 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-05-07 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Pending: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to use specified federal funding to purchase specialty crops, dairy, meat, and poultry products from specific agricultural producers relying on markets affected by COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) to provide to food assistance programs, including the Emergency Food Assistance Program. USDA must also provide additional funding to the states for the purpose of procuring food products to support food assistance programs within each state. USDA and the states must use at least 10% of the funding to purchase crops and products that would otherwise have been sold through direct-to-consumer, direct-to-institution, direct-to-retail, or direct-to-restaurant marketing channels.

Farmers-Feeding-Families Coronavirus Response Act

Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-05-07	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

HB6725 (Related) 2020-05-05 - Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3655/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s3655/BILLS-116s3655is.pdf