Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to report annually on the number of required permanent and temporary non-Federal employees for Farm Service Agency (FSA) local offices and the funding levels necessary to support such workforce.
Limits temporary workers to not more than ten percent of all such non-Federal workers in any fiscal year.
[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2209 Introduced in House (IH)]
109th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2209
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare an annual report
specifying the number of permanent and temporary non-Federal employees
for local offices of the Farm Service Agency that will be needed to
efficiently and effectively handle the workload generated by recurring
and anticipated agriculture programs administered by the Farm Service
Agency and the funding levels necessary to support such workforce, and
for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 10, 2005
Mr. McIntyre introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Agriculture
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A BILL
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare an annual report
specifying the number of permanent and temporary non-Federal employees
for local offices of the Farm Service Agency that will be needed to
efficiently and effectively handle the workload generated by recurring
and anticipated agriculture programs administered by the Farm Service
Agency and the funding levels necessary to support such workforce, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. ANNUAL FARM SERVICE AGENCY NON-FEDERAL EMPLOYEE WORKFORCE
REPORTS.
(a) Report Required.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall prepare an
annual report specifying, for the fiscal year covered by the report--
(1) the number of permanent and temporary non-Federal
employees for local offices of the Farm Service Agency that the
Secretary estimates will be needed to efficiently and
effectively handle the workload generated by agriculture
programs administered by the Farm Service Agency, including
recurring programs, temporary programs, such as emergency
disaster relief and other programs of limited duration, and
anticipated new programs; and
(2) the level of appropriation funding for salaries and
expenses that the Secretary estimates will be necessary to
support such workforce, including the formula by which the
Secretary makes such estimate.
(b) Limitation on Number of Temporary Non-Federal Employees.--The
total number of temporary non-Federal employees proposed for local
offices of the Farm Service Agency for a fiscal year may not exceed 10
percent of the total number of all non-Federal employees proposed for
local offices of the Farm Service Agency for that fiscal year.
(c) Submission of Report.--The Secretary shall submit to Congress
the report required for a fiscal year under subsection (a) at the same
time that the President submits the budget to Congress under section
1105 of title 31, United States Code, for that fiscal year.
(d) Non-Federal Employees Defined.--In this section, the term
``non-Federal employees'' means employees of county and area committees
established under section 8(b)(5) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic
Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)(5)) who are paid from funds
appropriated for the Farm Service Agency.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
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