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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1414 
To promote local and regional farm and food systems, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 9, 2013 
Ms. PINGREE of Maine (for herself, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. CICILLINE, Mr. 
COURTNEY, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. MORAN, Mr. HOLT, Ms. 
SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. THOMPSON of California, Mr. WALZ, Mr. WELCH, Ms. 
KAPTUR, Mr. LEWIS, Ms. SPEIER, Ms. MOORE, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. MCIN-
TYRE, Mrs. NEGRETE MCLEOD, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. LANGEVIN, Ms. 
KUSTER, Mr. MICHAUD, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. 
ENYART, and Ms. TSONGAS) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee 
on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To promote local and regional farm and food systems, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013’’. 
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(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—NUTRITION 
Sec. 101. Retailers. 
Sec. 102. Demonstration projects on acceptance of benefits of mobile trans-
actions. 
Sec. 103. Use of benefits for purchase of community-supported agriculture 
share. 
Sec. 104. Additional authority for purchase of fresh fruits, vegetables, and 
other specialty food crops. 
Sec. 105. Encouraging locally and regionally grown and raised food. 
Sec. 106. Assistance for community food projects. 
Sec. 107. Senior farmers’ market nutrition program. 
Sec. 108. Hunger-free communities. 
Sec. 109. Food and Nutrition Agriculture Service Learning Program. 
TITLE II—CREDIT 
Sec. 201. Loans to local and regional food producers. 
Sec. 202. Clarification of the mission of the farm credit system to recognize the 
economic benefits of supporting young, beginning, and small 
farmers and ranchers, and contributions of local and regional 
farm and food systems. 
Sec. 203. Young, beginning, and small farmers and ranchers and locally or re-
gionally produced agricultural products. 
TITLE III—RURAL DEVELOPMENT 
Sec. 301. Availability of rural business opportunity grants for local and regional 
food systems. 
Sec. 302. Clarification on allowed partnerships for certain community facilities 
grants and loans. 
Sec. 303. Availability of rural business enterprise grants for value-added proc-
essing, aggregation, distribution, storage, and marketing in 
connection with production agriculture. 
Sec. 304. Making improvements to business and industry direct and guaranteed 
loans to benefit producers of local or regionally produced agri-
cultural food products. 
Sec. 305. Value-added agricultural product market development grants. 
TITLE IV—RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND RELATED MATTERS 
Sec. 401. Agriculture and food research initiative. 
Sec. 402. Local and regional food system enterprise facilitation. 
Sec. 403. Conventional breeding initiative. 
Sec. 404. National genetics resources program. 
TITLE V—HORTICULTURE 
Sec. 501. Farmers market and local food promotion program. 
Sec. 502. Specialty crop block grants. 
Sec. 503. Study on local food production and program evaluation. 
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participating in a State option restaurant pro-
gram intended to serve the elderly, disabled, 
and homeless) to pay 100 percent of the costs 
of acquiring, and arrange for the implementa-
tion of, electronic benefit transfer point-of-sale 
equipment and supplies. 
‘‘(B) EXEMPTIONS.—The Secretary may 
exempt from subparagraph (A)— 
‘‘(i) farmers’ markets and other direct 
farmer-to-consumer 
marketing 
outlets, 
military commissaries, nonprofit food buy-
ing cooperatives, and establishments, orga-
nizations, programs, or group living ar-
rangements described in paragraphs (5), 
(7), and (8) of section 3(k); and 
‘‘(ii) establishments described in para-
graphs (3), (4), and (9) of section 3(k), 
other than restaurants participating in a 
State option restaurant program.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) TERMINATION OF MANUAL VOUCHERS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Effective beginning on 
the effective date of this paragraph, except as 
provided in subparagraph (B), no State shall 
issue manual vouchers to a household that re-
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ceives supplemental nutrition assistance under 
this Act or allow retailers to accept manual 
vouchers as payment, unless the Secretary de-
termines that the manual vouchers are nec-
essary, such as in the event of an electronic 
benefit transfer system failure or a disaster sit-
uation. 
‘‘(B) EXEMPTIONS.—The Secretary may 
exempt categories of retailers or individual re-
tailers from subparagraph (A) based on criteria 
established by the Secretary. 
‘‘(5) UNIQUE
IDENTIFICATION
NUMBER
RE-
QUIRED.—In an effort to enhance the antifraud pro-
tections of the program, the Secretary shall require 
all parties providing electronic benefit transfer serv-
ices to provide for and maintain a unique terminal 
identification number information through the sup-
plemental nutrition assistance program electronic 
benefit transfer transaction routing system. In devel-
oping the regulations implementing this paragraph, 
the Secretary shall consider existing commercial 
practices for other point-of-sale debit transactions. 
The Secretary shall issue proposed regulations im-
plementing this paragraph not earlier than 2 years 
after the date of enactment of this paragraph.’’. 
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(c) ELECTRONIC
BENEFIT
TRANSFERS.—Section 
7(h)(3)(B) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 2016(h)(3)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘is oper-
ational—’’ and all that follows through ‘‘(ii) in the case 
of other participating stores,’’ and inserting ‘‘is oper-
ational’’. 
(d) APPROVAL
OF
RETAIL
FOOD
STORES
AND 
WHOLESALE FOOD CONCERNS.—Section 9 of the Food 
and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2018) is amended— 
(1) in the second sentence of subsection (a)(1) 
by striking ‘‘; and (C)’’ and inserting ‘‘; (C) whether 
the applicant is located in an area with significantly 
limited access to food; and (D)’’; 
(2) in subsection (b) by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(3) RETAIL FOOD STORES WITH SIGNIFICANT 
SALES OF EXCLUDED ITEMS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—No retail food store 
for which at least 45 percent of the total sales 
of the retail food store is from the sale of ex-
cluded items described in section 3(k)(1) may 
be authorized to accept and redeem benefits un-
less the Secretary determines that the partici-
pation of the retail food store is required for 
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the effective and efficient operation of the sup-
plemental nutrition assistance program. 
‘‘(B) APPLICATION.—Subparagraph (A) 
shall be effective— 
‘‘(i) in the case of retail food stores 
applying to be authorized for the first 
time, beginning on the date that is 1 year 
after the effective date of this paragraph; 
and 
‘‘(ii) in the case of retail food stores 
participating in the program on the effec-
tive date of this paragraph, during periodic 
reauthorization in accordance with sub-
section (a)(2)(A).’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(g) EBT SERVICE REQUIREMENT.—An approved 
retail food store shall provide adequate EBT service as 
described in section 7(h)(3)(B).’’. 
SEC. 102. DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS ON ACCEPTANCE OF 
BENEFITS OF MOBILE TRANSACTIONS. 
Section 7(h) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 
(7 U.S.C. 2016(h)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(14) DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS ON ACCEPT-
ANCE OF BENEFITS OF MOBILE TRANSACTIONS.— 
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‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary shall 
pilot the use of mobile technologies determined 
by the Secretary to be appropriate to test the 
feasibility and implications for program integ-
rity, by allowing retail food stores, farmers 
markets, and other direct producer-to-consumer 
marketing outlets to accept benefits from recipi-
ents 
of 
supplemental 
nutrition 
assistance 
through mobile transactions. 
‘‘(B) DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.—To be 
eligible to participate in a demonstration project 
under subsection (a), a retail food store, farm-
ers market, or other direct producer-to-con-
sumer marketing outlet shall submit to the Sec-
retary for approval a plan that includes— 
‘‘(i) a description of the technology; 
‘‘(ii) the manner by which the retail 
food store, farmers market or other direct 
producer-to-consumer marketing outlet will 
provide proof of the transaction to house-
holds; 
‘‘(iii) the provision of data to the Sec-
retary, consistent with requirements estab-
lished by the Secretary, in a manner that 
allows the Secretary to evaluate the impact 
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