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| Where are we in the process of reauthorizing Child Nutrition and
implementing Food Stamp legislation? |
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| Child Nutrition|Food
Stamps |
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| (Very) Tentative Legislative Timeline
for Child Nutrition Reauthorization |
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| 2002 |
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Oct. 2002 -
Feb. 2003 |
Executive Branch agencies prepare President's budget for fiscal
year 2004. |
| Nov. 5, 2002 |
Election Day. |
| Late Nov. - Late Dec. 2002 |
Congress expected to return for Lame Duck Session to complete
appropriations bills and other unfinished business. |
| 2003 |
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| Jan. 2003 |
108th Congress begins; new Members of Congress sworn-in.
Republican/Democratic Retreats. |
| Feb. 2003 |
President submits budget proposal to Congress. (President's
funding framework for Child Nutrition Reauthorization included.)
President's Day District Work Period. (Members are home.)
House and Senate Budget Committees begin deliberations on
congressional budget. (Congressional funding framework
for Child Nutrition Reauthorization included.)
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| Feb. 23 - 25, 2003 |
FRAC, America's Second Harvest, National CACFP Forum Policy
Conference, Washington, D.C. |
| Feb. - Mar. 2003 |
House Education and the Workforce and Senate Agriculture
Committees begin hearings on Child Nutrition Reauthorization.
(Staff begin establishing priorities.)
Spring District Work Period. (Members are home.) |
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Apr. 15, 2003
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Congressional budget resolution due. Often, however, budget
resolutions are not finished until weeks or months later, or
sometimes not at all. |
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Apr. - May 2003
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House Education and the Workforce Committee begins mark
up of Child Nutrition Reauthorization Bill. |
| May 15, 2003 |
Congress officially may begin consideration of FY 2004 Appropriations
bills. However, much preparation work occurs prior to this date.
Memorial Day District Work Period. (Members are home.)
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| May - June 2003 |
Senate Agriculture Committee begins mark up of Child Nutrition
Reauthorization Bill. |
| May - Sept. 2003 |
Congress considers and must pass 13 Appropriations bills
funding entire federal government. |
| July 2003 |
Independence Day District Work Period. (Members are home.) |
| Aug. 2003 |
Summer District Work Period. (Members are home.) |
| Summer-Fall 2003 |
House and Senate reconcile differences between their two
Child Nutrition Reauthorization bills and both pass final bill. |
| Fall 2003 |
President signs Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill and
it becomes law. |
| Sept. 30, 2003 |
Last day of Fiscal Year 2003. |
| Oct. 1, 2003 |
New Fiscal Year (2004) begins. All Appropriations bills must
be passed and signed into law by this date. If this is not accomplished,
programs and agencies financed under outstanding appropriations
bills will shutdown unless Continuing Resolutions (CRs), providing
funding at FY 2003 levels, are passed and signed into law. |
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| Food Stamp Reauthorization and Implementation
Timeline |
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| 2002 |
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| Oct. 1, 2002 |
First Farm Bill-mandated changes go into effect
in the States: restoration of benefits for disabled legal immigrants,
increased resource allowance for disabled applicants, and increased
standard deduction for families with children. |
| May 13, 2002 |
President George W. Bush signs Farm
Bill. |
| Apr. 30, 2002 |
House Agriculture Committee posts a summary
of the Farm Bill agreed upon by conferees on their website. |
| Apr. 26, 2002 |
House and Senate Farm Bill conferees reach an
agreement on the contents of the 2002 Farm Bill, including $6.4
billion in funding for the Nutrition Title, restoration of food
stamps to many legal immigrants, expansion of Transitional Benefits
for families leaving TANF, simplification and streamlining provisions,
and changes in the Quality Control system. |
| Apr. 23, 2002 |
House votes to accept the non-binding motion
introduced by Rep. Baca (D-CA) to instruct Farm Bill conferees
from the House to support the Senate provisions to restore food
stamps to legal immigrant children, people with disabilities
and adults working in the U.S. for 16 quarters or more. The
vote was 244-171. |
| Apr. 18, 2002 |
Due to a major push from the advocacy community,
Rep. Tancredo withdraws his motion to instruct. |
| Apr. 16, 2002 |
Rep. Tancredo (R-CO) announces his intention
to place a motion on the House floor to instruct House Farm
Bill conferees to reject Senate provisions to restore food stamps
to legal immigrants.
A letter authored by Rep. James Walsh (R-NY) and signed by
other House Republicans urged conferees to support restoration
of food stamp to legal immigrants. The Hispanic Caucus and
the National Council of La Raza also contact the conferees
in support. |
| Apr. 12, 2002 |
The Washington Post publishes an editorial entitled
Food Stamp Mischief
chastising House Republicans and calling on conferees to support
restoration of food stamps for legal immigrants. |
| Apr. 10, 2002 |
At the first public session of the Farm Bill
conferees to discuss the Nutrition Title, Rep. Goodlatte (R-VA)
proposes language to the Farm Bill conference that would reduce
legal immigrant food stamp restorations and take $2 billion
out of the Nutrition Title. Conference committee members from
the Senate (except Sen. Helms) and House Democrats oppose the
provisions, House Republicans support it. |
| Apr. 7-9, 2002 |
Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) Annual
Conference in Washington, D.C. includes Congressional visits
by advocates, emphasizing the critical nature of the Food Stamp
provisions in the Farm Bill. |
| Mar. 19, 2002 |
Farm Bill conferees from the House and Senate
announce agreement on spending levels for titles of the Farm
Bill. The total allocated to the Nutrition Title is $6.4 billion.
The House bill included $3.4 billion; the Senate bill $8.9 billion. |
| Feb. 13, 2002 |
The Senate passes the Farm Bill with $8.9
billion in new funding for nutrition programs over the next
ten years. A conference committee with the House is scheduled
to convene on February 19. |
| Feb. 12, 2002 |
Another amendment, this one offered by Sen. McConnell,
is approved by a voice vote, adding another $500 million to
the nutrition title to complete raising the standard deduction
for larger families and to raise the asset limit for disabled
recipients to the same level as for the elderly. |
| Feb. 7, 2002 |
Amendments to the Farm Bill, offered by Senators
Durbin and Lugar, and Dorgan, Grassley and Johnson, are approved,
adding $2.2 billion to the nutrition title. Included are additional
restorations of food stamps to legal immigrants and provisions
to increase the standard deduction and shelter cap. Many Western
Senators support these amendments. |
| Feb. 6, 2002 |
Senate resumes debate on the Farm Bill. |
| Feb. 4, 2002 |
Bush administration budget is released, including
increased funding for WIC, restoration of food stamps to many
legal immigrants and exemption of one car per adult for food
stamp program eligibility. Also includes increases in quality
control requirements and a roll-back in waivers allowed to extend
categorical eligibility to TANF-eligible families. |
| Jan. 23, 2002 |
Congress returns to work after the Winter Recess. |
| Jan. 9, 2002 |
Bush administration officials states that the
2003 budget will include restoration of food stamps to many
legal immigrants currently banned from participation (basically
Sen. Lugar's proposal minus reduction of work quarters). |
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| Dec. 19, 2001 |
Sec. Venneman states that the Administration
is committed to working with Congress to pass a Farm Bill when
Congress returns in January.
After a third attempt for cloture on the Farm Bill debate,
Senators Harkin and Daschle abandon the effort to pass the
bill prior to the winter recess; the bill will be taken up
again after Jan. 23, 2002 |
| Dec. 12-19, 2001 |
Floor statements on the nutrition title of the
Farm Bill are submitted by Senators Cantwell, D-WA, and Smith,
R-OR. |
| Dec. 12, 2001 |
Lugar version of the Farm Bill, including his
nutrition title, is tabled (defeated) by the Senate |
| Nov. 1, 2001 |
Senator Harkin introduces his version of the
Farm Bill, S. 1731, which includes a $6.2 billion nutrition
title
Sec. Venneman congratulates Sen. Harkin on his Farm Bill
and applauds a bi-partisan approach |
| Oct. 27, 2001 |
Senate Agriculture Committee holds a hearing
on the Farm Bill in Boise; Sen. Crapo delays hearing to meet
with anti-hunger advocates led by NWFCO and pledges support
to a strong nutrition title |
| Oct. 17, 2001 |
Sen. Lugar introduces the Lugar Farm and Ranch
Equity Bill, S. 1571, which includes a $12 billion nutrition
title
Agriculture Secretary Venneman applauds Lugar Farm Bill as
consistent with Administration policy direction, but again
urges a delay in passage of a Farm Bill |
| Oct. 11, 2001 |
Twenty-five Senators send a letter to Sen. Harkin
encouraging restoration of food stamps for legal immigrants.
Western Senators signing the letter were Feinstein, Murray,
Boxer, Akaka, Inouye, Cantwell, Wyden and Reid |
| Oct. 5, 2001 |
Farm Bill approved by House of Representatives:
$3.4 billion over ten years for nutrition programs |
| Oct. 3, 2001 |
Bush administration urges the House to delay
voting on the Farm Bill
Farm Bill debate opens on the House floor |
| Sept. 19, 2001 |
Agriculture Secretary Venneman releases a statement
on the Administration's long-term priorities for agriculture
policy, including nutrition |
| Sept. 11, 2001 |
World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist attacks
change the environment facing the Farm Bill |
| August, 2001 |
WRAHC website, Food Stamp Target 2001, goes up
at www.wrahc.org |
| July 27, 2001 |
Farm Bill is approved by the House Agriculture
Committee |
| July 26, 2001 |
House Agriculture Committee opens discussion
on the Farm Bill |
| July 24, 2001 |
FRAC, America's Second Harvest and APHSA issue
a joint statement on food stamps to the House Agriculture Committee |
| July 19, 2001 |
Senate Agriculture Committee holds a hearing
on the Farm Bill and food stamp reauthorization |
| June 27, 2001 |
Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight,
Nutrition and Forestry, House Committee on Agriculture holds
a hearing on food stamp reauthorization |
| June 17-19, 2001 |
WRAHC meeting in Berkeley with food stamp directors/APHSA/FRAC/CBPP |
| June 15, 2001 |
WRAHC participates in a briefing of House Agriculture
and Ways and Means staff with FRAC and America's Second Harvest |
| April, 2001 |
FRAC Conference: first inkling that the House
Ag Committee might move very quickly on the Farm Bill |
| March, 2001 |
WRAHC receives a grant from the David and Lucile
Packard Foundation to undertake a Nutrition Reauthorization
Project in 2001-2002
American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) releases
Crossroads and calls for major food stamp program reform |
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| Nov. 15-17, 2000 |
WRAHC retreat in Portland confirms commitment
to increased activity on Food Stamp reauthorization; reauthorization
paper is revised |
| July - August, 2000 |
USDA holds "Food Stamp Program Conversations"
across the country, including Los Angeles. WRACH reauthorization
proposal is presented to FNS Secretary Shirley Watkins at the
LA forum |
| May 2, 2000 |
WRAHC meeting in Oakland with state food stamp
directors to begin a conversation about Food Stamp reauthorization;
WRAHC proposal is revised |
| April, 2000 |
WRAHC draft reauthorization paper is circulated
to members and colleagues |
| March - May, 2000 |
House Agriculture Committee holds ten field hearings
in rural areas on agriculture issues |
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