3.0.0 3588 2019-11-15T21:45:00Z 2019-11-15T21:45:00Z Senate S S 2008-09-25 110 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-09-25T21:05:27Z 2008-09-25 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2008-09-25 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R N Agriculture and Food Armed Forces and National Security Economics and Public Finance Farm produce Grants-in-aid Health Hospital care Hospitals Nursing homes Nutrition Social Welfare Veterans' medical care Agriculture and Food 00 2008-09-25 Introduced in Senate 2008-11-24T17:04:11Z Healthy Food for Healthy Lives Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide demonstration grants to eligible entities to purchase eligible local or regional products from participating vendors to improve the availability of nutritious meals for: (1) patients and employees of, and visitors to, eligible hospitals, including Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical and nursing facilities; and (2) clients of eligible social service organizations that provide nutrition services.

]]> Healthy Food for Healthy Lives Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Healthy Food for Healthy Lives Act of 2008 Display Title Healthy Food for Healthy Lives Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide grants to hospitals and other nonprofit inpatient healthcare institutions, Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers, and other social service programs for the acquisition of local nutritious agricultural products. Introduced in Senate 2008-09-25T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s3588is/xml/BILLS-110s3588is.xml 2008-09-25 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.