A bill to restore the rural water and sewer grant program under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act.
Latest action. Motion to override veto failed of passage in House, roll call #82 (225-189).
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants under the Farm and Rural Development Act in the amounts specified in appropriations Acts, not to exceed $100,000,000 in any fiscal year, to associations to finance specific projects for works for the development, storage, treatment, purification, or distribution of water or the collection, treatment, or disposal of waste in rural areas. Requires the Secretary to make grants in the amounts specified in appropriations Acts, not to exceed $15,000,000 in any fiscal year, to public bodies or such other agencies as the Secretary may determine have authority to prepare official comprehensive plans for the development of water or sewer systems in rural areas which do not have funds available for immediate undertaking of the preparation of such plan. (Amends 7 U.S.C. 1926(a)(2), 1926(a)(6))
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on January 30, 1973. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
This bill failed the vote the record describes below. A measure that fails is not revived; the same text has to be introduced again as a new measure.
The record's latest action, on April 10, 1973: Motion to override veto failed of passage in House, roll call #82 (225-189).
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
WILLIAM POAGE (D-TX) introduced it on January 30, 1973. No cosponsors are recorded.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HouseDid not advance · April 10, 1973
- SenateNot reached
- PresidentNot reached