US Congress House Bill 1717 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-1)
Status: Introduced on March 13 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-08-09 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

Healthy Food Access for All Americans Act

Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Sen. Roger Marshall [R-KS]	Rep. Donald McEachin [D-VA]	Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]
Rep. Dwight Evans [D-PA]	Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA]	Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]
Rep. Cheri Bustos [D-IL]	Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT]
Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]	Rep. Jimmy Panetta [D-CA]
Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO]
Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]	Rep. Elaine Luria [D-VA]	Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]
Rep. William Keating [D-MA]	Rep. Peter Visclosky [D-IN]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]
Rep. TJ Cox [D-CA]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Josh Harder [D-CA]	Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon [D-PA]
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan [D-PA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-08-09	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.
2019-03-13	House	Referred 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.
2019-03-13	House	Referred 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.
2019-03-13	House	Introduced in House

SB786 (Same As) 2019-03-13 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1717/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr1717/BILLS-116hr1717ih.pdf