Grocery, Farm, and Food Worker Stabilization Grant Program Act of 2026
Sponsored By: Representative Budzinski
Introduced
Summary
Creates a USDA-run grant program to provide stabilization payments to grocery, farm, and meat processing workers through their unions and membership organizations. The program would let those organizations make payments after a natural disaster or other disaster the Secretary of Agriculture designates and would be administered by the Agricultural Marketing Service.
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- Workers: Farmworkers, meat processing workers, and grocery workers could receive stabilization payments distributed by organizations that represent them.
- Worker organizations: Labor unions and membership organizations that represent those workers would be eligible to apply for grants to make the payments.
- Administration: The Agricultural Marketing Service at the Department of Agriculture would run the grant program and determine disaster eligibility and program rules.
- Oversight: The Secretary must report to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees within four years on program outcomes and impacts.
*Would authorize $50.0 million in appropriations to carry out the program, increasing federal spending if Congress provides the funds.*
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Disaster grants for farm and food workers
If enacted, this bill would create a USDA grant program to pay stabilization grants after natural or other disasters. The Secretary of Agriculture, through the Agricultural Marketing Service, would run the program. Only membership organizations (as the Secretary defines them) or labor unions representing farmworkers, meat processing workers, or grocery workers would be eligible. The bill would authorize $50,000,000 to carry out the program, and those funds would remain available until expended. Not later than four years after enactment, the Secretary would report program outcomes to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees.
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
Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-28]
CA • D
Sponsored 4/6/2026
Rep. Davids, Sharice [D-KS-3]
KS • D
Sponsored 4/6/2026
Rep. Goldman, Daniel S. [D-NY-10]
NY • D
Sponsored 4/6/2026
Rep. Salinas, Andrea [D-OR-6]
OR • D
Sponsored 4/6/2026
McClellan
VA • D
Sponsored 4/6/2026
Rep. Thanedar, Shri [D-MI-13]
MI • D
Sponsored 4/14/2026
Rep. Williams, Nikema [D-GA-5]
GA • D
Sponsored 4/15/2026
Scott, David
GA • D
Sponsored 4/20/2026
Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
CA • D
Sponsored 5/11/2026
Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20]
NY • D
Sponsored 5/11/2026
Stansbury
NM • D
Sponsored 5/14/2026
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