The bill would require the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to eligible farmworker organizations during disasters that affect farmworkers. Covered disasters include severe weather, health crises such as pandemics, and other events that cause farmworkers to lose income, be unable to work, or stay home or return home because of expected work shortages. Organizations could use grants for direct relief, emergency services, shelter and other infrastructure, and efforts to prepare for future disasters. Grant funds would remain available until spent.
Farmworkers affected by a covered disaster could receive assistance through eligible organizations. A worker generally qualifies under the bill’s definition if they performed farm work for wages during the past two years and earned at least half their income from farm work or spent at least half their work time on farm work. The bill does not create a direct application process for individual workers.
The bill does not specify a total amount of funding for grants. It says grant funds remain available until spent.
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