[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1938 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1938

  To enact the model Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 10, 1996

Mr. Bond (for himself and Mr. Santorum) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To enact the model Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ENACTMENT OF MODEL GOOD SAMARITAN FOOD DONATION ACT AND 
              TRANSFER OF THE ACT TO THE CHILD NUTRITION ACT OF 1966.

    (a) Enactment.--Title IV of the National and Community Service Act 
of 1990 is amended--
            (1) by striking sections 401 and 403 (42 U.S.C. 12671 and 
        12673); and
            (2) in section 402 (42 U.S.C. 12672)--
                    (A) in the section heading, by striking ``model'' 
                and inserting ``bill emerson'';
                    (B) in subsection (a), by striking ``Good 
                Samaritan'' and inserting ``Bill Emerson Good 
                Samaritan''; and
                    (C) in subsection (c)--
                            (i) by striking ``A person or gleaner'' and 
                        inserting the following:
            ``(1) Liability of person or gleaner.--A person or 
        gleaner''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``needy individuals, 
                        except that this paragraph'' and inserting the 
                        following: ``needy individuals.
            ``(2) Liability of nonprofit organization.--A nonprofit 
        organization shall not be subject to civil or criminal 
        liability arising from the nature, age, packaging, or condition 
        of apparently wholesome food or an apparently fit grocery 
        product that the nonprofit organization received as a donation 
        in good faith from a person or gleaner for ultimate 
        distribution to needy individuals.
            ``(3) Exception.--Paragraphs (1) and (2)''.
    (b) Transfer to Child Nutrition Act of 1966.--Section 402 of the 
National and Community Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12672) (as 
amended by subsection (a)) is--
            (1) transferred to the end of the Child Nutrition Act of 
        1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.); and
            (2) redesignated as section 22 of the Act.
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