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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