This Act is P.L. 98-92 (September 2, 1983) which amended the original Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act (TEFAA) of 1983 to authorise multi-year funding and commodity donations from excess CCC inventories of foodstuffs for food distribution by emergency feeding organisations serving the needy and homeless. It subsequently was amended in 1985, 1988, 1990, and 1996 (under the FAIR Act of 1996) and currently authorises funding through FY2002 to buy and donate commodities and to provide grants for state and local costs of transporting, storing, and distributing them to emergency feeding organizations, soup kitchens, and food banks serving low-income persons. In addition to discretionary funds authorised to be appropriated by this law, the welfare reform law of 1996 required that $100 million of food stamp appropriations be used annually to buy commodities for emergency feeding organizations.