Food Research Corporation Act of 1979 - Title I: Food Research Corporation - Establishes a private, nonmember, nonprofit Food Research Corporation to make financial, technical, and educational assistance grants to individuals, nonprofit organizations, or the governments of States or foreign countries or political subdivisions thereof, for: (1) provision of implements, low-energy intensive machinery, and seeds to individuals in agriculture or aquaculture who cannot produce the food necessary to nourish their families adequately; and (2) teaching individuals who are suffering from malnutrition methods to maximize food production and nutrition.
Requires the Corporation to operate a national clearinghouse for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of food production and nutrition information.
Title II: Designation by Individuals of Income Tax Payments to Food Research Corporation Fund - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an individual taxpayer to designate that $2.50 of his or her paid taxes be paid over to the Food Research Corporation Fund established by this Act.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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