2016 US Code
Title 7 - Agriculture
Chapter 88 - Research
Subchapter VII - Miscellaneous Research Provisions
Sec. 5936 - Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network
| 7 U.S.C. § 5936 (2016) |
| §5936. Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network |
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(a) In general
The Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall make competitive grants to support cooperative programs between State cooperative extension services and nonprofit organizations to establish a Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network that provides stress assistance programs to individuals who are engaged in farming, ranching, and other agriculture-related occupations. (b) Eligible programsGrants awarded under subsection (a) may be used to initiate, expand, or sustain programs that provide professional agricultural behavioral health counseling and referral for other forms of assistance as necessary through— (1) farm telephone helplines and websites; (2) community education; (3) support groups; (4) outreach services and activities; and (5) home delivery of assistance, in a case in which a farm resident is homebound. Grants shall be awarded under this subsection directly to State cooperative extension services to enable the State cooperative extension services to enter into contracts, on a multiyear basis, with nonprofit, community-based, direct-service organizations to initiate, expand, or sustain cooperative programs described in subsections (a) and (b). (d) Authorization of appropriationsThere are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this section for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2012. |
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(Pub. L. 110–234, title VII, §7522, May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1272; Pub. L. 110–246, §4(a), title VII, §7522, June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2033.) |
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CODIFICATION
Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 enacted identical sections. Pub. L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246. Section was enacted as part of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, and not as part of subtitle H of title XVI of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 which comprises this subchapter. EFFECTIVE DATEEnactment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 8701 of this title. DEFINITION OF "SECRETARY""Secretary" as meaning the Secretary of Agriculture, see section 8701 of this title. |
| United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 4, Title 7 - AGRICULTURE |
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| Title 7 - AGRICULTURE CHAPTER 88 - RESEARCH SUBCHAPTER VII - MISCELLANEOUS RESEARCH PROVISIONS Sec. 5936 - Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network |
| section 5936 |
| 2016 |
| January 6, 2017 |
| No |
| standard |
| 122 Stat. 1272, 1664 |
| Public Law 110-234, Public Law 110-246 |
