{"format":1,"id":"118-hr-662","congress":118,"number":"H.R. 662","kind":"bill","group":"budget","title":"Block Grant Assistance Act of 2023","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To amend the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 to improve disaster relief funding for agricultural producers, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To amend the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 to improve disaster relief funding for agricultural producers, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Block Grant Assistance Act of 2023"},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Block Grant Assistance Act of 2023"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Block Grant Assistance Act of 2023"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Block Grant Assistance Act of 2023"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Block Grant Assistance Act of 2023"}],"outcome":"failed_senate","law_number":null,"introduced":"2023-01-31","chambers":{"house":{"status":"voice","date":"2023-06-12","vote":null,"how":"voice_vote","words":"Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2804)"},"senate":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2023-11-01","vote":{"id":"118-2023-s285","question":"On Passage of the Bill","title":"H.R. 662, as amended","result":"Bill Defeated","yea":43,"nay":53,"present":0,"not_voting":4,"source":"https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1181/vote_118_1_00285.xml"}}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Under the order of 10/24/23, having not achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, failed of passage in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 43 - 53. Record Vote Number: 285.","date":"2023-11-01"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2023-06-12","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Block Grant Assistance Act of 2023"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill authorizes the Department of Agriculture to provide as block grants to states and territories certain funding available to assist agricultural producers with losses due to droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, excessive heat, tornadoes, winter storms, freeze, smoke exposure, and excessive moisture occurring in calendar year 2022."},{"k":"p","t":"The amounts provided by the bill are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO) and the Senate PAYGO rule. (This excludes the budget effects from being counted for the purposes of enforcing the PAYGO rules.)"}],"words":96},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Amends the agricultural disaster relief funding in the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 to allow the Secretary of Agriculture to provide assistance in the form of block grants to eligible States and territories.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/662/text/eh#HFF4D9CD1B52B43F2AE397AED269D0DCC"}]},"core_areas":["Block grant option for agricultural disaster relief assistance under the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Amends Title I of the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 (division N of Public Law 117–328) under the Department of Agriculture heading \"Office of the Secretary\" under \"Processing, Research and Marketing.\"","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/662/text/eh#HFF4D9CD1B52B43F2AE397AED269D0DCC"}},{"text":"Adds a provision stating that the Secretary of Agriculture may provide assistance for losses described under that heading in the form of block grants to eligible States and territories.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/662/text/eh#HFF4D9CD1B52B43F2AE397AED269D0DCC"}},{"text":"Designates the Act and its amendments as an emergency requirement under section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/662/text/eh#H6E380B0D42DE45F1AFF02CFBCDCC0629"}},{"text":"Designates the Act as an emergency requirement in the Senate under section 4001(a)(1) of S. Con. Res. 14 (117th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2022.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/662/text/eh#H6E380B0D42DE45F1AFF02CFBCDCC0629"}},{"text":"Provides that the Act may be cited as the \"Block Grant Assistance Act of 2023\".","cite":{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/662/text/eh#HE91901EA83264940B84FF0E1DCF02780"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2023-06-12","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/662/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-02","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/662","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/662/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-662.png","v":"55d094893e8b","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 662, 118th Congress: Block Grant Assistance Act of 2023. House: voice vote. Senate: 43 Yea, 53 Nay. Outcome: Failed Senate, 1 Nov 2023."}}