| HR 59 IH
108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 59
To amend the Emergency
Food Assistance Act of 1983 to permit States to use administrative funds
to pay costs relating to the processing, transporting, and distributing
to eligible recipient agencies of donated wild game.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 7, 2003
Mr. EHLERS introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To amend the Emergency
Food Assistance Act of 1983 to permit States to use administrative funds
to pay costs relating to the processing, transporting, and distributing
to eligible recipient agencies of donated wild game.
Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as
the `Hunters Help the Hungry Act of 2003'.
SEC. 2. USE OF ADMINISTRATIVE
FUNDS FOR DONATED WILD GAME.
Section 204(a)(1) of the
Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 7508(a)(1)) is amended
in the first sentence by inserting after `sources,' the following: `including
donated wild game (using not more than a percentage established by the
Secretary (by regulation) of funds appropriated for a fiscal year) and'.
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