Healthy Food Access for All Americans Act
Latest action · Aug 9, 2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 13, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Healthy Food Access for All Americans Act
This bill allows tax credits and grants for activities that provide access to healthy food in food deserts, which are communities that have limited or no access to grocery stores and meet income requirements.
For entities that are certified by the Department of the Treasury as special access food providers using specified criteria, the bill allows tax credits for operating a new grocery store or renovating an existing grocery store in a food desert. The bill also authorizes grants for a portion of (1) the construction costs of building a permanent food bank in a food desert, and (2) the annual operating costs of temporary access merchants (mobile markets, farmers markets, and food banks).
Treasury, in coordination with the Department of Agriculture (USDA), must annually allocate the tax credits and grants to special access food providers. Grants authorized by this bill are not considered gross income for tax purposes.
The bill also requires USDA to update the Food Access Research Atlas at least annually to account for food retailers that are placed in service during that year.
Cosponsors 32
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 13, 2019 to Oct 27, 2020; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-VA | A. Donald McEachin | Original | Mar 13, 2019 |
| R-KS | Roger Marshall | Original | Mar 13, 2019 |
| D-IL | Cheri Bustos | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-CO | Diana DeGette | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-PA | Dwight Evans | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-MA | Seth Moulton | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-IN | André Carson | Mar 28, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Apr 9, 2019 | |
| D-CT | Rosa L. DeLauro | Apr 9, 2019 | |
| D-NH | Ann M. Kuster | May 17, 2019 | |
| D-AZ | Ann Kirkpatrick | May 20, 2019 | |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne, Jr. | May 20, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Jimmy Panetta | Jun 5, 2019 | |
| D-WA | Derek Kilmer | Jun 12, 2019 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Jun 21, 2019 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Jun 21, 2019 | |
| D-CO | Ed Perlmutter | Aug 6, 2019 | |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Aug 16, 2019 | |
| D-VA | Elaine G. Luria | Sep 19, 2019 | |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Oct 8, 2019 | |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Oct 8, 2019 | |
| D-MA | William R. Keating | Oct 11, 2019 | |
| D-IN | Peter J. Visclosky | Oct 23, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Oct 28, 2019 | |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Oct 28, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Tj Cox | Oct 28, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Nov 8, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Josh Harder | Nov 19, 2019 | |
| D-PA | Mary Gay Scanlon | Dec 19, 2019 | |
| D-PA | Chrissy Houlahan | Oct 27, 2020 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Mar 13, 2019 |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Mar 13, 2019 |
| Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee | Referred Aug 9, 2019 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Aug 9, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.
- Mar 13, 2019Introduced in House
- Mar 13, 2019Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 45, March 13, 2019, page H2718.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R46538 | Local and Urban Food Systems: Selected Farm Bill and Other Federal Programs | Report | Sep 23, 2020 |
Related bills 3
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 786 | Healthy Food Access for All Americans Act | Identical bill | Mar 13, 2019 |
| HR 1313 | Healthy Food Access for All Americans Act | Reintroduced Bill | Mar 29, 2021 |
| HR 4260 | Healthy Food Access for All Americans Act | Reintroduction of | Dec 5, 2017 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a new tax credit and grant program to stimulate investment and healthy nutrition options in food deserts, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Healthy Food Access for All Americans Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 13, 2019Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
