Delaware Senate Bill 254

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-1)
Status: Introduced on March 21 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-05-15 - Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Act creates the Delaware Grocery Initiative. It directs the Office of State Planning Coordination (Office) to study food insecurity in urban and rural food deserts. The Act defines a food desert and directs the Office to expand access to healthy foods in food deserts by providing financial assistance to grocery stores, independently owned for-profit grocery stores, cooperative grocery stores, non-profit grocery stores as well as grocery stores owned and operated by local governmental units.

An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Food Deserts.

Sen. Darius Brown [D]	Sen. Kyra Hoffner [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Rep. Nnamdi Chukwuocha [D]
Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]	Rep. DeShanna Neal [D]	Sen. Kyle Gay [D]	Sen. Elizabeth Lockman [D]
Sen. Spiros Mantzavinos [D]	Sen. Marie Pinkney [D]	Sen. David Wilson [R]	Rep. Krista Griffith [D]
Rep. Kendra Johnson [D]	Rep. Sherae'a Moore [D]	Rep. Kimberly Williams [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-05-15		Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate
2024-05-15		Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
2024-03-21		Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141125
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=141125&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB254