US Congress House Bill 4184 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 48-0)
Status: Introduced on December 7 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-03-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Food Recovery Act of 2015 This bill amends the following to provide funding, expand tax deductions, and establish requirements to reduce food waste: the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act; the Internal Revenue Code; the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; the Solid Waste Disposal Act; and several agricultural laws. The bill expands and establishes federal grant and loan programs to: improve the nutritional health of children and raise awareness about food waste, improve cooperation between agricultural producers and emergency feeding organizations, assist schools in using food from farms that would otherwise go to waste and providing farms with compostable materials, and install facilities that include composting or anaerobic digesters that use food or crop waste to produce energy. Recipients of grants to install anaerobic digesters that use waste to produce energy must meet specified requirements regarding environmental laws and the distribution of certain food to hunger-serving organizations. USDA must: (1) establish an Office of Food Recovery to coordinate federal programs to measure and reduce food waste, and (2) study techniques for decreasing food waste and estimating the amount of food wasted by farms. The bill provides that composting is a conservation practice eligible for support under USDA's conservation programs. The bill extends and expands tax deductions for the donation of food to charitable organizations. "Sell-by" dates included on food labeling must indicate that the dates are only the manufacturer's suggestion and use uniform language. Companies that receive food service contracts with the federal government must donate surplus food to nonprofit organizations that assist food-insecure people.

Food Recovery Act of 2015

Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]
Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]
Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]
Rep. Brad Ashford [D-NE]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Chaka Fattah [D-PA]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]
Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]	Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]	Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]
Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]	Rep. Rick Larsen [D-WA]
Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]
Rep. Adam Smith [D-WA]	Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]	Rep. Alma Adams [D-NC]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]
Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]	Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]	Rep. Donald Norcross [D-NJ]	Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]
Rep. Bonnie Coleman [D-NJ]	Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]	Rep. Marcia Fudge [D-OH]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]
Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. William Keating [D-MA]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]
Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]	Rep. Marc Veasey [D-TX]	Rep. Dina Titus [D-NV]	Rep. Luis Gutierrez [D-IL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-23	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
2015-12-11	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-12-09	House	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9089)
2015-12-07	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2015-12-07	House	Referred to House Education and the Workforce
2015-12-07	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2015-12-07	House	Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
2015-12-07	House	Referred to House Administration
2015-12-07	House	Referred to House Agriculture
2015-12-07	House	Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce, 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.
2015-12-07	House	Introduced in House

HB644 (Related) 2016-02-24 - Became Public Law No: 114-125. (TXT | PDF)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4184/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr4184/BILLS-114hr4184ih.pdf