S. 5329 — A bill to amend the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act to improve the program, and for other purposes. | PoliFocus

S. 5329117th Congress

A bill to amend the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act to improve the program, and for other purposes.

Subjects

Agriculture and Food

This act expands liability protections for the donation of food and grocery products.

Specifically, the act expands the liability protections to include donations of an apparently fit grocery product or apparently wholesome food

for which the recipient is charged a good Samaritan reduced price that is no greater than the cost of handling, administering, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, and distributing the food or product; or
that is donated directly to a needy individual at zero cost by a retail grocer, wholesaler, agricultural producer, agricultural processor, agricultural distributor, restaurant, caterer, school food authority, or institution of higher education.

H.R. 6521Supporting STEM Learning Opportunities Act
2022-01-28Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Related
S. 3281Food Donation Improvement Act of 2021
2021-11-30Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Related

2022-12-20
Introduced in Senate
2022-12-20
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
2022-12-20
Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9613; text: CR S9613)
2022-12-21
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
2022-12-21
Received in the House.
2022-12-21
Held at the desk.
2022-12-21
Mrs. Peltola moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
2022-12-21
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H9958-9959)
2022-12-21
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 5329.
2022-12-21
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
2022-12-21
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H9958)
2022-12-21
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Enacted as Public Law 117-362

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