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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-73
BLOCK GRANT ASSISTANCE ACT OF 2023
MAY 22, 2023.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on
Agriculture, submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 662]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 662) to amend the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropria-
tions Act, 2023 to improve disaster relief funding for agricultural
producers, and for other purposes, having considered the same, re-
ports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that
the bill do pass.
BRIEF EXPLANATION
This legislation, as reported out of Committee, provides the Sec-
retary of Agriculture the authority to make block grants to States
and territories in order to distribute certain disaster assistance
under the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations, 2023.
PURPOSE AND NEED
Beginning with the enactment of the Bipartisan Budget Act of
2018 and via subsequent legislation, Congress has appropriated ad-
ditional funding to the United States Department of Agriculture
(USDA) to assist producers who suffered production losses in cal-
endar years 2017 through 2022 due to extreme weather events and
natural disasters. Legislation for losses in 2017 through 2021 pro-
vided explicit discretionary authority to the Secretary of Agri-
culture to deliver assistance via block grants to States and terri-
tories. This authority was omitted from the Disaster Relief Supple-
mental Appropriations Act, 2023 which funded disaster assistance
for losses in calendar year 2022. Making block grants to States is
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