US Congress House Bill 3444 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-0)
Status: Introduced on July 27 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-07-28 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Food Recovery Act of 2017 This bill provides funding and establishes requirements to reduce food waste and standardize date labeling on food. The bill authorizes grants or loans for activities related to: raising awareness about wasted food and food recovery efforts to reduce the quantity of wasted food, reducing food waste at schools and farms, and installing facilities that include composting or anaerobic digesters that use food or crop waste to produce energy. The bill provides funds for: (1) state storage and distribution costs under the Emergency Food Assistance Program, and (2) national media campaigns to decrease food waste. The bill also: establishes a Food Recovery Liaison within the Department of Agriculture (USDA), specifies that composting is eligible for support under USDA's conservation programs, expands the tax deduction for charitable contributions to include contributions of food inventory for nonprofit retail sales, expands the liability protections for the donation of food, and requires companies that receive federal food service contracts to donate surplus food to nonprofit organizations that assist food-insecure people. The bill requires date labels on food packaging to include the phrases "best if used by" to indicate food quality and "use by" to warn of food that may be unsafe to eat after a specified date. Labelers may include a quality date on packaging, but must include a safety date on ready-to-eat products. No one may prohibit the sale, donation, or use of a product based on passage of the quality date of the product.

Food Recovery Act of 2017

Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]
Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Marc Veasey [D-TX]
Rep. Alma Adams [D-NC]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Dwight Evans [D-PA]	Rep. Salud Carbajal [D-CA]
Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Richard Nolan [D-MN]	Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]
Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]
Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]	Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]	Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]
Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]
Rep. Rick Larsen [D-WA]	Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]	Rep. Adam Smith [D-WA]	Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-07-28	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2017-07-27	House	Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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.
2017-07-27	House	Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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.
2017-07-27	House	Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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.
2017-07-27	House	Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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.
2017-07-27	House	Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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.
2017-07-27	House	Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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.
2017-07-27	House	Introduced in House

SB1680 (Related) 2017-07-31 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
HB952 (Related) 2017-02-07 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/3444/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr3444/BILLS-115hr3444ih.pdf