Bill Text: IL HB3323 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the Department of Agriculture to create a grant program to award grants of up to $250,000, subject to appropriation, to cover the costs and labor of any qualified applicant farmer to distribute healthy, free food to expectant mothers in need who reside in the same county or in a municipality within 20 miles of the farmer's farm, with certain requirements. Requires the Department to adopt rules. Defines terms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-18 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB3323 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB3323-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB3323 Introduced , by Rep. Rita Mayfield SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 205/205-455 new
Amends the Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Agriculture to create a grant program to award grants of up to $250,000 to cover the costs and labor of any qualified applicant farmer to distribute healthy, free food to expectant mothers in need who reside in the same county or in a municipality within 20 miles of the farmer's farm. Requires the Department to adopt rules. Defines terms.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil
Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding Section
205-455 as follows:
(20 ILCS 205/205-455 new)
Sec. 205-455. Local farmer grant program for expectant
mothers in need.
(a) In this Section:
"Expectant mother" means an individual who is pregnant.
"Expectant mother in need" means an expectant mother whose
household income does not exceed 200% of the poverty
guidelines updated periodically in the Federal Register by the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the
authority of 42 U.S.C. 9902(2).
"Farmer" means a person who owns or manages a farm.
"Farm" means the main place of business of the farmer,
where the farmer is engaged in agriculture, raising living
organisms for food.
(b) Subject to appropriation, the Department shall, by
rule, create a grant program to award grants of up to $250,000
to cover the costs and labor of any qualified applicant farmer

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to distribute healthy, free food to expectant mothers in need
who reside in the same county or in a municipality within 20
miles of the farmer's farm. The Department shall determine
that the applicant is a qualified applicant if the following
are all true:
(1) The applicant is a farmer.
(2) The applicant has a feasible plan for the
distribution of health, free, and local food produced by
the farmer to expectant mothers in need in the same county
or in a municipality within 20 miles of the farmer's farm,
in the determination of the Department.
(3) The applicant is a trustworthy individual or
business, in the determination of the Department.
(4) All other requirements set by rule by the
Department have been met by the applicant.
(c) The Department shall adopt rules to implement this
Section.