118th Congress · SENATE BILLBILL

S. 3761National Agricultural Crisis Hotline Act of 2024

A bill to amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to reauthorize the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network and establish a national agricultural crisis hotline, and for other purposes.

Agriculture and food
Introduced Feb 7, 2024
Last action Feb 7, 2024
Pipeline · Bill → Law
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Introduced
Feb 7, 2024
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Referred
Feb 7, 2024
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
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Committee
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Senate
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House floor
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Resolve Changes
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SummaryCRS Summary

This bill establishes a national agricultural crisis hotline. The bill also reauthorizes the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN) Program through FY2028. (The FRSAN Program funds projects that aim to maintain a network connecting individuals engaged in farming, ranching, and other agriculture-related occupations to stress assistance programs.) Specifically, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) must establish, and maintain directly or by grant or contract, a national agricultural crisis hotline as part of the FRSAN. The crisis hotline must provide emotional support, information, suicide crisis intervention, mental health and substance use disorder, and agricultural support resour...

Provisions · 3 sectionsIntroduced in Senate
Timeline · 2 actions
Feb 7, 2024
Introduced in Senate
Feb 7, 2024
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.