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To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to allow certain States to directly purchase commodities, and for other purposes.
To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to allow certain States to directly purchase commodities, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill amends the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to allow eligible States to directly purchase food commodities through the private commercial marketplace. Instead of receiving commodities purchased by the Secretary of Agriculture, eligible States may elect to receive their entitlement funds as cash to make their own direct purchases from private suppliers. The bill defines eligible States as those meeting the criteria in the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, and entitlement funds as the dollar amounts the Secretary would normally allocate to purchase commodities for distribution to those States. This change allows eligible States greater flexibility in procurement and sourcing of commodities for emergency food assistance programs.
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5 cosponsors
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Actions (3)
- Mar 20, 2026 Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture. · house
- Feb 9, 2026 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. · house
- Feb 9, 2026 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 9, 2026
Ms. Tokuda (for herself, Mr. Case, Mr. Moylan, Ms. King-Hinds, and Mr. Hernandez) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to allow certain States to directly purchase commodities, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. DIRECT PURCHASE OF COMMODITIES.
Section 202 of the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 7502) is amended by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
“(b) Direct Purchase of Commodities.—
“(1) Definitions.—In this subsection:
“(A) Eligible state.—The term ‘eligible State’ has the meaning given the term in section 4206(b) of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (7 U.S.C. 7518(b)).
“(B) Entitlement funds.—The term ‘entitlement funds’, with respect to an eligible State, means the dollar amount used by the Secretary to purchase commodities pursuant to section 27 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2036) to distribute to the eligible State in accordance with section 214.
“(2) Direct purchase.—The Secretary shall allow an eligible State to elect to receive all of the entitlement funds of the eligible State as cash to make direct purchases of commodities through the private commercial marketplace.”. <all>
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