Title: Food Bank Assistance Act of 2017
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Food Bank Assistance Act of 2017
This bill amends the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 and the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide additional funding to the Department of Agriculture for carrying out the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP).
(TEFAP helps supplement the diets of low-income Americans, including the elderly, by providing them with emergency food and nutrition assistance. The program provides food and administrative funds to states to supplement the diets of these groups.)

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4020 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4020

  To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 relating to the 
             distribution of food; and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 11, 2017

 Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico (for herself and Mr. Rodney 
Davis of Illinois) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                      the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 relating to the 
             distribution of food; and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Food Bank Assistance Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. FOOD DISTRIBUTION UNDER THE EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE ACT OF 
              1983.

    (a) Amendment.--The 1st sentence of section 204(a)(1) of the 
Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 7508(a)(1)) is amended 
by striking ``and donated wild game'' and inserting ``, donated wild 
game, and any other donated foods''.
    (b) Appropriation.--There is hereby appropriated $100,000,000 for 
each of the fiscal years that begins on or after the effective date of 
this Act, to carry out section 204(a)(1) of the Emergency Food 
Assistance Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 7508(a)(1)).

SEC. 3. AVAILABILITY OF COMMODITIES FOR THE EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE 
              PROGRAM.

    Section 27(a)(2) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2036(a)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (C) by striking ``2018'' and inserting 
        ``2017'',
            (2) in subparagraph (D)--
                    (A) by striking ``through 2018'' and inserting 
                ``and 2017'',
                    (B) in clause (i) by adding ``and'' at the end,
                    (C) in clause (ii) by adding ``and'' at the end, 
                and
                    (D) by striking clauses (iii) and (iv), and
            (3) by amending subparagraph (E) to read as follows:
                    ``(E)(i) for fiscal year 2018, $500,000,000; and
                    ``(ii) for each subsequent fiscal year, the amount 
                specified in clause (i) adjusted by the percentage by 
                which the thrifty food plan has been adjusted under 
                section 3(u)(4) to reflect changes between June 30, 
                2016, and June 30 of the immediately preceding fiscal 
                year.''.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on 
the 1st day of the 1st fiscal year that begins after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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