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Bill to Modernize National FFA Charger Clears Senate, House
USAgNet - 02/19/2019

The U.S. Senate approved a measure to modernize the National FFA Federal Charter Tuesday afternoon, moving the bill one step closer to becoming law and paving the way for needed updates that will allow FFA to build for the future.

H.R. 439 gained approval in the Senate less than two weeks after passage by the House of Representatives. The identical Senate version of the charter bill was introduced by Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) and co-sponsored by Senators Doug Jones (D-AL), James Lankford (R-OK), Christopher Coons (D-DE) and John Hoeven (R-ND).

The bill now requires approval by the president to become law.

Of the nearly 100 federally-charted non-profits, FFA is the sole organization that must rely on its partner government agency to select the majority of its board members. H.R. 439, the National FFA Organization's Federal Charter Amendments Act, reforms how FFA's board is selected to better reflect the broad array of stakeholders invested in the organization. The bill also gives FFA's charter an explicit focus on agricultural CTE, which will help better prepare student members for 21st Century careers.


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