In the nature of a substitute.

SA 1357. Mr. SCOTT of Florida (for himself and Mr. Rubio) submitted
an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 662, to
amend the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 to
improve disaster relief funding for agricultural producers, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the
following:

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Block Grant Assistance Act
of 2023''.

SEC. 2. DISASTER RELIEF SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT,
2023, AMENDMENT.

Title I of the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations
Act, 2023 (division N of Public Law 117-328; 136 Stat. 5201),
is amended, in the matter under the heading ``DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE--AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS--Processing, Research and
Marketing--office of the secretary'' , by inserting ``:
Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture may
provide assistance for losses described under this heading in
this Act in the form of block grants to eligible States and
territories'' before the period at the end.

SEC. 3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION.

Amounts repurposed under the amendment made by section 2
that were previously designated by the Congress as an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 4001(a)(1) of S.
Con. Res. 14 (117th Congress), the concurrent resolution on
the budget for fiscal year 2022, and section 1(e) of H. Res.
1151 (117th Congress), as engrossed in the House of
Representatives on June 8, 2022, are designated by the
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to
section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(A)(i)).

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