Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Summary
The bill rewrites the legal meaning of “rural area” used by the Department of Agriculture and aligns related housing and electrification laws with that definition. It also authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the Census Bureau, to designate certain low‑income, farm‑worker‑dense, or infrastructure‑deficient locales as rural even if they are inside urban zones. The goal is to broaden eligibility for rural‑development assistance to communities that need it most.
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