I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1538 
To amend the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to establish 
a pilot grant program to award grants to facilitate home delivery of 
commodities under the commodity supplemental food program, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 24, 2025 
Mr. NUNN of Iowa (for himself and Ms. CROCKETT) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To amend the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act 
of 1973 to establish a pilot grant program to award 
grants to facilitate home delivery of commodities under 
the commodity supplemental food program, 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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Delivering for Rural 
Seniors Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. COMMODITY SUPPLEMENTAL FOOD PROGRAM DE-
LIVERY PILOT PROGRAM. 
The Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 
1973 (7 U.S.C. 612c note) is amended by inserting after 
section 5 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 5A. COMMODITY SUPPLEMENTAL FOOD PROGRAM 
DELIVERY PILOT PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—The purposes of this section are— 
‘‘(1) to award grants for the operation of 
projects that increase the access of low-income elder-
ly persons to commodities through home delivery; 
and 
‘‘(2) to evaluate such projects. 
‘‘(b) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall award, on 
a competitive basis, grants to State agencies to carry out 
the activities described in subsection (e). 
‘‘(c) MAXIMUM GRANT AWARD.—A grant awarded to 
a State agency under this section may be in an amount 
not greater than the lesser of— 
‘‘(1) the State’s commodity supplemental food 
program caseload at time of application multiplied 
by 60; or 
‘‘(2) $4,000,000. 
‘‘(d) APPLICATION.—A State agency seeking a grant 
under this section shall submit to the Secretary an appli-
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ceeding fiscal year until grant funds are expended, a State 
agency shall submit a report to the Secretary that in-
cludes— 
‘‘(1) a summary of the activities carried out 
under the project, including the quantity of commod-
ities delivered, number of participants in the com-
modity supplemental food program served, and total 
number of deliveries; 
‘‘(2) an assessment of the effectiveness of the 
project, including— 
‘‘(A) a calculation of the average cost per 
delivery; and 
‘‘(B) an evaluation of any services provided 
by a third party; and 
‘‘(3) best practices regarding use of home deliv-
ery to improve the effectiveness of the commodity 
supplemental food program. 
‘‘(h) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) COMMODITY SUPPLEMENTAL FOOD PRO-
GRAM.—The term ‘commodity supplemental food 
program’ means the program established under sec-
tion 4. 
‘‘(2) CFR TERMS.—The terms ‘local agency’, 
‘State agency’, and ‘subdistributing agency’ have the 
meanings given such terms in section 247.1 of title 
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7, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regula-
tions). 
‘‘(3) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘eligible en-
tity’ means— 
‘‘(A) a local agency; or 
‘‘(B) a subdistributing agency. 
‘‘(4) RURAL AREA.—The term ‘rural area’ has 
the meaning given such term in section 343(a) of 
the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act 
(7 U.S.C. 1991(a)). 
‘‘(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2028, 
to remain available until expended.’’. 
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