[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2667 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2667

    To provide for the establishment of a disabled farmers' market 
                        nutrition pilot program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 11, 2007

 Ms. Woolsey introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide for the establishment of a disabled farmers' market 
                        nutrition pilot program.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Disabled Farmers' Market Nutrition 
Pilot Program of 2007''.

SEC. 2. FARMERS' MARKET NUTRITION PILOT PROGRAM FOR DISABLED 
              INDIVIDUALS.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds that low-income disabled individuals 
suffer from similar forms of malnutrition as low-income seniors, and 
that the disabled population would reap nutritional benefits from such 
a farmers' market voucher program where they are able to purchase 
fresh, healthy food from local farmers.
    (b) Pilot Program Establishment.--(1) The Secretary of Agriculture 
shall carry out a pilot program with respect to the States specified in 
subsection (d) under which the Secretary creates a farmers' market 
nutrition program for disabled individuals.
    (2) Of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall use $1,000,000 for fiscal year 2008 to carry out 
this section, and such sums as necessary for fiscal years 2009 through 
2013.
    (c) Program Purposes.--The purposes of the farmers' market 
nutrition pilot program are--
            (1) to provide resources in the form of fresh, nutritious, 
        unprepared, locally grown fruits, vegetables, and herbs from 
        farmers' markets, roadside stands, and community supported 
        agriculture programs to low-income disabled individuals;
            (2) to increase the domestic consumption of agricultural 
        commodities by expanding or aiding in the expansion of domestic 
        farmers' markets, roadside stands, and community supported 
        agriculture programs; and
            (3) to develop or aid in the development of new and 
        additional farmers' markets, roadside stands, and community 
        supported agriculture programs.
    (d) States.--The Secretary shall use funds referred to in 
subsection (b)(2) for pilot programs on the West Coast in California, 
in the North East, in the South East, and in the Mid-West.
    (e) Regulations.--The Secretary may issue such regulations as the 
Secretary considers necessary to carry out the farmers' market 
nutrition program.
    (f) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term ``disabled 
individual'' means an individual who has a disability as defined in 
section 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
12102).
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