S. 2824 · 115th Congress
Farm to Food Bank Act of 2018
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Bob Casey
- Introduced
- 2018-05-10
- Latest action
- 2018-05-10 · Introduced in Senate
Summary
Farm to Food Bank Act of 2018
This bill amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to require the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a program to allocate funding to states to support the establishment and administration of farm to food bank programs. A "farm to food bank program" is a program under which agricultural producers donate food products to a food bank, an association of food banks, or a food assistance network for free distribution to individuals in need.
The bill also amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to require the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to establish a procedure under which an insured crop that is donated by a producer does not qualify as a produced crop under a crop insurance claim.
USDA must coordinate with the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study to evaluate and determine methods of measuring food waste, standards for the volume of food waste, and causal factors for food waste.