HR 7938
Grocery, Farm, and Food Worker Stabilization Grant Program Act of 2026
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Bill overview
This bill creates a grant program overseen by the Department of Agriculture to provide financial assistance to farmworkers, meat processing workers, and grocery workers who are impacted by natural disasters or other emergencies. The program will distribute funds through organizations like membership groups and labor unions that represent these workers. The goal is to offer stabilization payments during times of crisis, ensuring these workers have support when facing hardship. A report on the program’s effectiveness will be required after four years.
Key provisions
- Establishes a grant program within the Department of Agriculture.
- Eligible recipients include membership organizations and labor unions representing farmworkers, meat processing workers, and grocery workers.
- Funding will be used for ‘stabilization payments’ to workers affected by disasters.
- The Secretary of Agriculture determines which disasters qualify.
- The Agricultural Marketing Service will administer the grant program.
- A report on the program’s outcomes and impact is required after four years.
Who is affected
- Farmworkers
- Meat processing workers
- Grocery workers
- Membership organizations representing workers
- Labor unions representing workers
Notable changes
- Creates a new federal grant program specifically for disaster relief to food and agricultural workers.
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119th CONGRESS — 2d Session
H. R. 7938
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a grocery, farm, and food worker stabilization grant program.
This Act may be cited as the Grocery, Farm, and Food Worker Stabilization Grant Program Act of 2026
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In this section:
The term eligible entity means a membership organization, as determined by the Secretary, or labor union representing farmworkers, meat processing workers, or grocery workers.
The term Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture.
The Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service, shall establish a grant program to provide funding to eligible entities representing farmworkers, meat processing workers, and grocery workers for stabilization payments in the case of a natural disaster or other disaster, as determined by the Secretary.
Not later than 4 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report describing the outcomes and evaluating the impacts of the program established under subsection (b).
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $50,000,000, to remain available until expended.