The
House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture marked up the FY10 Agriculture Appropriations Bill.
Included in the bill was $180 million for CSFP and language that
would provide funding for expansion in the current service area as
well as funding for the six states with approved state plans:
Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Utah.
We are very
grateful to the chair and members of the subcommittee for this
funding level. This will allow us to get the new states going while
also providing funding for expansion requests with the current
states.
Please remember to thank the subcommittee members
for their support of our program.
The full Appropriations Committee will be meeting in a few days in
regards to this bill.
Please contact committee members from your area
and ask them to support the subcommittee markup but also ask them to
consider the full amount of funding that we are requesting in our
FY10 Legislative Agenda.
Thank you for all of
your hard work on behalf of our participants. The calls and emails
that you sent have made a difference! This bill will still have to
be considered on the floor of the House before passage there and the
Senate has yet to markup their version of the bill. Please keep up
the calls and emails. The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121.
NCSFPA 2009 Board Committee List
Numerous
documents throughout this 
