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S 4101 · in committee · significant

Grocery, Farm, and Food Worker Protection Act of 2026

What this bill does

  • The bill creates a grant program to provide disaster relief payments to farmworkers, meat processing workers, and grocery workers.
  • Farmworkers, meat processing workers, grocery workers, and their unions or membership organizations are eligible for assistance.
  • The Agricultural Marketing Service will distribute grants to unions and organizations to fund stabilization payments after natural or other disasters.

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  1. 01

    How should grant eligibility be determined when both unionized and non-unionized workers in the same industry need disaster assistance?

  2. 02

    What evidence supports focusing federal disaster relief specifically on farmworkers, meat processing workers, and grocery workers rather than other essential industries?

  3. 03

    If unions and membership organizations distribute stabilization payments, how would the government ensure funds reach individual workers who need them most?

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Sponsor · D-NM

Ben Ray Luján

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Introduced 2026-03-16

Legislative timeline

  1. 2026-03-16 · senate · IntroReferral

    Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

  2. 2026-03-16 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in Senate

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