SENATE BILL: Farmer Stabilization Act of 2021 (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE BILL

To support family farms in rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic

BE IT ENACTED in both house of the CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC OF ATLASIA ASSEMBLED,

Farmer Stabilization Act of 2021

Section 1. Purpose

a. Family farms have been devastated during the COVID-19 pandemic and it has caused wide spread disruptions in farm markets
b. The marketplace has inevitably been disrupted and commerce has slowed
c. The purpose of this act is to support local farms in order for farms to remain solvent

Section 2. Funding

a. The federal government shall provide block grants to emergency feeding organizations
b. An emergency feeding organization shall be defined as a local or regional food enterprise such as a farmers' market, a nonprofit organization, or a food hub
c. An initial amount of $75,000,000 shall be approved
i. $50,000,000 for grants
ii. $25,000,000 to support disadvantaged farmers
d. EMERGENCY designation due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Section 3. Grant eligibility
a. Block grants must be distributed to the regions in order to provide them to local farmers
b. Small, local farms are eligible and must be socially disadvantaged and isolated from other farmers
c. Priority given to retailers in food deserts that sold less than $500,000 in food products in the last year

Sponsor: Spark498
Senate Designation: SB28:16

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The initial debate period has started and the sponsor has twenty four hours and the other members have forty-eight hours with which to respond after that.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I would like to get some feedback from other members on this bill.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I motion for final vote, Senators have 24 hours to object.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This bill is now at final vote, Senators please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This one also less than 24 hours left.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Final Passage of the Farmer Stabilization Act of 2021:

Aye (5): Blair2015, FalterinArc, NC Yankee, Spark and Tack
Nay (0):
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (1): Devout Centrist

This bill has passed and is sent to the VP for House action.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE BILL

To support family farms in rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic

BE IT ENACTED in both house of the CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC OF ATLASIA ASSEMBLED,

Farmer Stabilization Act of 2021

Section 1. Purpose

a. Family farms have been devastated during the COVID-19 pandemic and it has caused wide spread disruptions in farm markets
b. The marketplace has inevitably been disrupted and commerce has slowed
c. The purpose of this act is to support local farms in order for farms to remain solvent

Section 2. Funding

a. The federal government shall provide block grants to emergency feeding organizations
b. An emergency feeding organization shall be defined as a local or regional food enterprise such as a farmers' market, a nonprofit organization, or a food hub
c. An initial amount of $75,000,000 shall be approved
i. $50,000,000 for grants
ii. $25,000,000 to support disadvantaged farmers
d. EMERGENCY designation due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Section 3. Grant eligibility
a. Block grants must be distributed to the regions in order to provide them to local farmers
b. Small, local farms are eligible and must be socially disadvantaged and isolated from other farmers
c. Priority given to retailers in food deserts that sold less than $500,000 in food products in the last year

People's Regional Senate
Passed 5-0 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,