Healthy Food Access for All Americans Act
Latest action · Mar 29, 2021 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.
- IntroducedFeb 24, 2021
- 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 22
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 24, 2021 to Nov 14, 2022; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-VA | A. Donald McEachin | Original | Feb 24, 2021 |
| D-AZ | Ann Kirkpatrick | Mar 2, 2021 | |
| D-NH | Ann M. Kuster | Mar 2, 2021 | |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Mar 2, 2021 | |
| D-PA | Chrissy Houlahan | Mar 2, 2021 | |
| D-PA | Dwight Evans | Mar 2, 2021 | |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Mar 2, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Jimmy Panetta | Mar 2, 2021 | |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Mar 2, 2021 | |
| D-PA | Mary Gay Scanlon | Mar 2, 2021 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Mar 2, 2021 | |
| D-IN | André Carson | Mar 9, 2021 | |
| D-IN | Frank J. Mrvan | Mar 9, 2021 | |
| D-CT | Jahana Hayes | Mar 9, 2021 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Mar 16, 2021 | |
| D-CO | Diana DeGette | Mar 18, 2021 | |
| D-GU | Michael F. Q. San Nicolas | Mar 18, 2021 | |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Apr 1, 2021 | |
| D-CO | Ed Perlmutter | Nov 3, 2021 | |
| D-MA | Seth Moulton | Nov 3, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Nov 16, 2021 | |
| D-PA | Madeleine Dean | Nov 14, 2022 |
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 Feb 24, 2021 |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Feb 24, 2021 |
| Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee | Referred Mar 29, 2021 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 29, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.
- Feb 24, 2021Introduced in House
- Feb 24, 2021Referred 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. 167, no. 35, February 24, 2021, page H618.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IF11841 | Defining Low-Income, Low-Access Food Areas (Food Deserts) Archived | Resource | Jun 1, 2021 |
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 203 | Healthy Food Access for All Americans Act | Identical bill | Feb 3, 2021 |
| HR 1717 | Healthy Food Access for All Americans Act | Reintroduction of | Aug 9, 2019 |
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.
- Feb 24, 2021Introduced 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.
