To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a grocery, farm, and food worker stabilization grant program.
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Became law
Dec 12, 2023
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Dec 12, 2023
Introduced in House
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Plain-English summary
This bill directs the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) to establish a grant program to provide farmworkers, meat processing workers, and grocery workers stabilization payments in the case of a natural disaster or other disaster. Specifically, AMS must provide funding to membership organizations or labor unions representing farmworkers, meat processing workers, and grocery workers for the payments.
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Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
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Pettersen, Brittany
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Kaptur, Marcy
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McClellan, Jennifer L.
Allred, Colin
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Ryan, Patrick
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Goldman, Daniel S.
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Neguse, Joe
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Tonko, Paul
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Norcross, Donald
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Omar, Ilhan
Trone, David
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Vargas, Juan
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Landsman, Greg
Pascrell, Bill
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McBath, Lucy
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Garcia, Robert
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McGarvey, Morgan
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Hayes, Jahana
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Magaziner, Seth
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Schiff, Adam B.
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Jayapal, Pramila
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Brownley, Julia
Kildee, Daniel
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Bishop, Sanford D.
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Davis, Donald G.
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Beatty, Joyce
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Frost, Maxwell
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García, Jesús G. "Chuy"
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Scott, David
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Krishnamoorthi, Raja
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Chu, Judy
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Cohen, Steve
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Stansbury, Melanie A.
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Trahan, Lori
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Davids, Sharice
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Mullin, Kevin
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Pingree, Chellie
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Adams, Alma S.
Caraveo, Yadira
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Craig, Angie
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Crockett, Jasmine
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Jackson, Jonathan L.
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Norton, Eleanor Holmes
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Pocan, Mark
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Sorensen, Eric
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Thanedar, Shri
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Titus, Dina
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Waters, Maxine
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 6720: To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a grocery, farm, and food worker stabilization grant program.. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-6720/
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H.R. 6720, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-6720/.
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