S 1538 · 96th Congress · Agriculture and Food
A bill to amend section 210 of the Agriculture Act of 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1859) to permit the donation of agricultural commodities acquired through operations under section 32 of P.L. 320, 74th Congress, as amended (7 U.S.C. 612c), to certain penal and correctional institutions.
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EnactedLatest: Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.(1979-07-18)
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Amends the Agriculture Act of 1956 to permit the donation of agricultural commodities to certain State and county correctional institutions under the additional authority of Public Law 320, Seventy-fourth Congress, which authorizes appropriations for the payment of benefits or indemnities in order to divert such commodities from normal channels of trade to groups of needy persons. Repeals current authority to make such donations to Federal correctional institutions.…
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