Bill Text: NJ A3414 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires Dept. of Agriculture to create clearinghouse website for vendors to provide surplus food to charities in State.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-4)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-25 - Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Economic Growth Committee [A3414 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A3414-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 3414

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED MARCH 7, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  ANGELA V. MCKNIGHT

District 31 (Hudson)

Assemblyman  PARKER SPACE

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Assemblywoman  GAIL PHOEBUS

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Chaparro and Assemblyman Webber

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires Dept. of Agriculture to create clearinghouse website for vendors to provide surplus food to charities in State.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee on May 19, 2016, with amendments.

 

An Act establishing a clearinghouse website for vendors to provide surplus food to charities in the State, and supplementing Title 4 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

      1.  a.  The Department of Agriculture ¹[, in consultation with the New Jersey Food Council,]¹ shall establish and maintain, or partner with a nonprofit organization to establish and maintain, a website to serve as a clearinghouse for wholesale and retail food vendors, including but not limited to restaurants, supermarkets, and produce markets, to provide surplus food products to food banks and other food charities throughout the State.  The website shall include a list of food banks and other food charities with a need for surplus food products, organized by county, with hyperlinks to each individual food bank or food charity website.

      b.   The Department of Agriculture may adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), any rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of this act.

 

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.