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Making Agricultural Products Locally Essential (MAPLE) Act

To expand the seniors farmers' market program to include maple syrup.

Introduced Jan 9, 2025

Latest action (Feb 14, 2025) Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.

Referred to
Agriculture Committee
Policy area
Agriculture and Food
Issues
Economy & Taxes

Summary

This bill amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to expand the Seniors Farmers' Market Nutrition Program by adding maple syrup to the list of eligible products seniors can purchase. The program currently allows seniors to use nutrition assistance funds at farmers' markets to purchase produce and herbs. The bill adds maple syrup as an eligible agricultural product under the program. This expansion allows participating seniors to use their program benefits to purchase locally produced maple syrup.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
5 cosponsors

Actions (3)
  1. Feb 14, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture. · house
  2. Jan 9, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. · house
  3. Jan 9, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 57 — MAPLE Act · Introduced Jan 9, 2025 · Cong. 119 72%
  • HR 2236 — Healthy Foods for Native Seniors Act · Introduced Apr 18, 2025 · Cong. 119 55%
  • HR 1648 — A–PLUS Act · Introduced Mar 28, 2025 · Cong. 119 55%
  • HR 1125 — LOCAL Act · Introduced Feb 7, 2025 · Cong. 119 54%
  • HR 2379 — Farmers’ Market Expansion Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 18, 2025 · Cong. 119 54%
  • HR 1728 — Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act · Introduced Feb 27, 2025 · Cong. 119 54%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jan 9, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 9, 2025

Mr. Langworthy (for himself and Mr. Courtney) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

A BILL

To expand the seniors farmers’ market program to include maple syrup.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Making Agricultural Products Locally Essential (MAPLE) Act”.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF THE SENIORS FARMERS’ MARKET NUTRITION PROGRAM.

Section 4402(b)(1) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 3007(b)(1)) is amended by striking “and herbs” and inserting “herbs, and maple syrup”. <all>

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