Title: Tools for Ensuring Access to Meals Act
Policy area: Social Welfare

Summary:
Tools for Ensuring Access to Meals Act or the TEAM Act
This bill requires the Research, Demonstration, and Evaluation Center for the Aging Network to carry out and evaluate a pilot program to address food insecurity and hunger among older adults and adults with disabilities.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5095 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5095

To establish a pilot program to address hunger among older individuals 
                     and adults with disabilities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 15, 2022

   Mr. Casey introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To establish a pilot program to address hunger among older individuals 
                     and adults with disabilities.

    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 ``Tools for Ensuring Access to Meals 
Act'' or the ``TEAM Act''.

SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY COLLABORATIVE AND INNOVATION PILOT PROGRAM.

    Section 201 of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3011) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(h)(1) In this subsection:
            ``(A) The term `Center' means the Research, Demonstration, 
        and Evaluation Center for the Aging Network described in 
        subsection (g).
            ``(B) The term `Director' means the Director of the Center.
    ``(2) The Director shall establish, in fiscal year 2026, an 
Interagency Collaborative and Innovation Pilot Program to Address 
Hunger and Promote Access to Healthy Food Among Older Adults and Adults 
with Disabilities (referred to in this subsection as the `pilot 
program').
    ``(3) The Director shall carry out the pilot program through the 
Center.
    ``(4) The Director shall carry out the pilot program to address 
hunger among, including promoting access to healthy food for, older 
individuals and adults with disabilities by--
            ``(A) implementing best practices for addressing food 
        insecurity, including by promoting access to healthy, 
        affordable, and local or regional food among older individuals 
        and adults with disabilities;
            ``(B) seeking recommendations from Federal agencies about 
        how to support interagency collaboration to address food 
        insecurity;
            ``(C) implementing innovative practices to address food 
        insecurity; and
            ``(D) evaluating the impact of subparagraphs (A) through 
        (C) on addressing food insecurity.
    ``(5) In carrying out the pilot program, the Director shall provide 
funding for demonstration projects, evaluation, and research related to 
the activities referred to in paragraph (4).
    ``(6) In addition to any other funds appropriated for the Center, 
there is authorized to be appropriated for the Center, to carry out 
this subsection, $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2026 and each subsequent 
fiscal year.''.
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