[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2898 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2898

 To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to authorize 
the Secretary of Agriculture to authorize the use of certain grants to 
   deliver peer-to-peer mental health support to individuals who are 
engaged in farming, ranching, farm work, and other occupations relating 
                            to agriculture.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 21, 2023

  Mr. Padilla introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to authorize 
the Secretary of Agriculture to authorize the use of certain grants to 
   deliver peer-to-peer mental health support to individuals who are 
engaged in farming, ranching, farm work, and other occupations relating 
                            to agriculture.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Supporting Farmworkers' Mental 
Health Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that farmworkers--
            (1) are vital to the economy and food supply of the United 
        States; and
            (2) who are disproportionately affected by stress and 
        anxiety, often lack access to behavioral health care services.

SEC. 3. FARM AND RANCH STRESS ASSISTANCE NETWORK.

    Section 7522 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 5936) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``farm work,'' after ``ranching,'' each 
        place it appears;
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)(D), by striking ``or'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph 
                (3);
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
            ``(2) to initiate, expand, or sustain programs that deliver 
        peer-to-peer mental health support to individuals who are 
        engaged in farming, ranching, farm work, and other occupations 
        relating to agriculture; or''; and
                    (D) in paragraph (3) (as so redesignated), by 
                striking ``paragraph (1) and subsection (a)'' and 
                inserting ``paragraphs (1) and (2) and subsection 
                (a)''; and
            (3) in subsection (d), by striking ``2023'' and inserting 
        ``2028''.
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