Bill > HR6384

Introduced Session

To provide community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger groups with funding to partner with small and mid-sized restaurants to expand meal access and delivery for low-income and vulnerable populations during a pandemic or public health emergency. This bill authorizes the Department of Agriculture to award grants to community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger groups to partner with small and mid-sized restaurants or food contractors to expand meal access and food security to meet the needs of children, families, and vulnerable populations during a pandemic such as COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). Grants awarded may not exceed $500,000.

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Nydia Velázquez (D)*,  Nanette Barragán (D),  André Carson (D),  Ed Case (D),  David Cicilline (D),  Yvette Clarke (D),  Steve Cohen (D),  Angie Craig (D),  Val Demings (D),  Theodore Deutch (D),  Lloyd Doggett (D),  Adriano Espaillat (D),  Chuy García (D),  Jahana Hayes (D),  Jared Huffman (D),  Sheila Jackson-Lee (D),  Alan Lowenthal (D),  Elaine Luria (D),  Carolyn Maloney (D),  Jerry McNerney (D),  Grace Meng (D),  Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D),  Grace Napolitano (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Ilhan Omar (D),  Chellie Pingree (D),  Jamie Raskin (D),  Michael San Nicolas (D),  Linda Sánchez (D),  Jan Schakowsky (D),  Terri Sewell (D),  Donna Shalala (D),  Bennie Thompson (D),  Frederica Wilson (D), 

Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. (on 03/24/2020)

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