To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to allow certain States to directly purchase commodities, and for other purposes.

Sponsor: Jill N. Tokuda (Democratic-HI)

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Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.

Eligible states would get cash to buy food directly for emergency aid programs.

This bill would let certain states receive cash instead of food from the federal government for emergency aid programs. This means these states could buy food directly from private markets. The goal is to give eligible states more flexibility in how they provide food assistance to their communities.

What Would Change

Today, the federal government buys food for emergency aid programs and sends it to states. After this bill, eligible states would have the choice to receive the money for these programs as cash, allowing them to buy food directly from private businesses instead of receiving it from the federal government.

Key Provisions

Lets eligible states choose to receive cash instead of food from the federal government for emergency aid programs.
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to allow eligible states to make direct purchases of food items from private markets using these cash funds.

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HR 7455 · 119th Congress · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 9/10

To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to allow certain States to directly purchase commodities, and for other purposes.

What Would Change

Key Provisions

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