Senator MATTHEWS proposed the following amendment (3508MW12):
    Amend the bill, as and if amended, page 13, line 7, by adding an appropriately lettered subsection to read:
/     (     ) The provisions of the Act do not apply to a county that has been identified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as being a persistent poverty county.     /

    Renumber sections to conform.
    Amend title to conform.