Bill > S507

This bill aims to establish a "Food Justice Frontline" program in Massachusetts. The key provisions are: 1. The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources will create the Food Justice Frontline Program to fund non-profit organizations that provide land or jobs related to food production, distribution, preparation, or delivery to low-income and food-insecure residents living in overburdened communities (areas with high pollution and low incomes). 2. The program will provide grants of up to $500,000 to these non-profit organizations, which must use the funds to quickly create new food security jobs that pay at least the statewide per capita income divided by 2,400 per hour. 3. The Department of Transitional Assistance and Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development will establish a new program to increase public awareness of food assistance programs like SNAP and the Healthy Incentives Program, focusing on reaching youth and low-income/food-insecure residents in overburdened communities, and will seek federal funding to support these efforts.