Block Grant Assistance Act of 2023

How it moves voter issues

• +1.5Rural & agriculture

  Lets USDA send farm disaster aid for 2022 losses to states as block grants.

  Medium confidence

  AI scores averaged: +2 from typesafe:jev-1.13.0, +1 from claude-opus-5-5. Compare the models

• −1Federal deficit & spending

  Uses emergency-designated funds exempt from pay-as-you-go rules.

  Low confidence

  AI scores averaged: −1 from typesafe:jev-1.13.0, −1 from claude-opus-5-5. Compare the models

What it does

Block Grant Assistance Act of 2023 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. 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.)

Summary by the Congressional Research Service, passed house version.

Every recorded vote on it

1. Nov 1, 2023Senate On Passage of the BillA bill to amend the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 to improve disaster relief funding for agricultural producers, and for other purposes.43 yea 53 nayCounts toward rankings