Feeding America's Families Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2129
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: American Samoa
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Block grants
Civil service retirement
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost of living adjustments
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education savings accounts
Emergency Management
Federal aid to education
Federal employees
Federal-state relations
Food stamps
Freight
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Hunger
Immigrants
Immigration
Individual retirement accounts
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Marketing of farm produce
Military pay
Minorities
Native Americans
Nonprofit organizations
Pension funds
Puerto Rico
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works
Welfare eligibility
Welfare work participation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Feeding America's Families Act of 2007 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 with respect to: (1) inflation adjustments; (2) standard deduction increases; (3) combat pay, retirement account, and education account exclusions; (4) minimum benefit increases; (5) countable resource increases; (6) legal immigrant eligibility; (7) work requirements; (8) state option to provide food assistance to foster community reintegration; (9) program administration; (10) cash payment pilot projects; (11) food stamp program reauthorization; (12) block grants for Puerto Rico and American Samoa; (13) outreach; (14) food stamp use at farmers' markets; (15) community food projects, community food assistance, and food bank infrastructure; (16) creation of the national food for the hungry transportation, self-help, and job-training fund; and (17) hunger-free communities collaborative grants.
 
Establishes in the Department of Agriculture the Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship Program and the Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellowship Program. Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to repeal the hunger fellowship program.
 
Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to extend the commodity supplemental food program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5475-5476)
action_date: 2007-05-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4969-4970)
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House