Grocery, Farm, and Food Worker Stabilization Grant Program Act of 2026
Sponsored By: Representative Budzinski
Introduced
Summary
Creates a USDA grant program to deliver stabilization payments to farm, meat processing, and grocery workers during natural or other disasters. The Department of Agriculture would fund eligible membership organizations and labor unions so they can make payments to affected workers.
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- Membership organizations and labor unions representing farmworkers, meat processing workers, or grocery workers can receive grants to distribute stabilization payments after a qualifying disaster.
- The Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator, establishes the discretionary grant rules and decides which natural or other disasters trigger payments.
- The Secretary must report to the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry within four years on program outcomes and impacts.
*Authorizes $50.0 million in appropriations to carry out the program, available until expended.*
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Disaster relief grants for food workers
If enacted, the bill would create a grant program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It would authorize $50,000,000 to carry out the program, and those funds would remain available until spent. The program would give money to qualifying membership organizations or labor unions representing farmworkers, meat processing workers, and grocery workers. These groups would use the grants to make stabilization payments after a natural disaster or other disaster, as the Agriculture Secretary decides. The Secretary would have to report program outcomes and evaluate impacts to Congress within four years of enactment.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Budzinski
IL • D
Cosponsors
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Sponsored 3/30/2026
Pingree
ME • D
Sponsored 4/6/2026
Chu
CA • D
Sponsored 4/6/2026
Davids (KS)
KS • D
Sponsored 4/6/2026
Goldman (NY)
NY • D
Sponsored 4/6/2026
Salinas
OR • D
Sponsored 4/6/2026
McClellan
VA • D
Sponsored 4/6/2026
Thanedar
MI • D
Sponsored 4/14/2026
Scott, David
GA • D
Sponsored 4/20/2026
Williams (GA)
GA • D
Sponsored 4/15/2026
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