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Committee adopts A27 amendment, moves $4 million for food assistance into Children and Families bill
Summary
The House Ways and Means Committee adopted the A27 amendment to the Children and Families Finance Bill, reallocating $4 million to food assistance programs and making several technical statutory changes; the bill will be laid over and later merged with the health finance bill.
The House Ways and Means Committee on the motion of Representative West adopted the A27 amendment to the Children and Families Finance Bill, inserting $4,000,000 in food assistance allocations and several technical statutory changes.
The amendment, described by Representative West as primarily technical, adds language from the Myers food bill allocating $2,500,000 to food shelves, $500,000 to American Indian sovereignty food programs and $1,000,000 to food banks that participate in the key FAB program…
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