Introduced
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To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Department of Agriculture and Rural Development budget. The bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-3) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Amendment offered
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To add $1.5 million for grants to local conservation districts, and increase from $250,000 to $2 million the amount spent on certain food market subsidies.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To cut $1.5 million and 10 employees from a food store inspection program.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To appropriate 12 months of funding in this budget rather than three months.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 57 to 50 (details)
The House version of the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Department of Agriculture and Rural Development budget. This would appropriate just three months worth of spending, however, or $27.2 million, of which $11.8 million is federal money.
Referred to the Committee of the Whole
Passed in the Senate 20 to 16 (details)
To send the bill back to the House "stripped" of all actual appropriations except $100 “placeholders.” This is part of a process for reconciling the House and Senate-passed department budgets for the next fiscal year.
Failed in the House 0 to 109 (details)
To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill. The failed vote is a procedural device used for launching negotiations over the differences between the House and Senate budgets, and eventually for negotiating a final budget between a Republican-controlled legislature and a Democratic governor.
