[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2147 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2147

  To provide grants to enhance the most effective freezing methods to 
   improve access to affordable and locally produced specialty crops.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 23, 2013

Mr. Carson of Indiana introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                    to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide grants to enhance the most effective freezing methods to 
   improve access to affordable and locally produced specialty crops.

    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 ``Preserving Healthy Food for the 
Hungry Act''.

SEC. 2. QUICK FREEZE AND FLASH FREEZE LOCAL PRODUCE GRANTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 231 of the Agricultural Risk Protection 
Act of 2000 (7 U.S.C. 1632a) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(7)(B), by inserting ``and subsection 
        (f)'' after ``subsection'';
            (2) in subsection (e)(2), by inserting ``, except pursuant 
        to subsection (f)'' before the period; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Quick Freeze and Flash Freeze Local Produce Grants.--
            ``(1) In general.--Subject to the availability of 
        appropriations to carry out this section, the Secretary shall 
        make grants to institutions eligible to receive funds under the 
        Act of July 2, 1862 (12 Stat. 503-505, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 
        301-305, 307 and 308), or the Act of August 30, 1890 (26 Stat. 
        417-419, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 321-326 and 328) that applies 
        therefor, to assist persons in preserving the quality and 
        shelf-life of fruit and vegetable crops produced by the persons 
        on qualified land, through the use of mobile and fixed flash 
        freezing and quick freezing units and other units utilizing 
        freezing methods which produce the same result, in accordance 
        with any applicable Federal, State, or local food safety law, 
        regulation, or ordinance.
            ``(2) Definitions.--In this paragraph:
                    ``(A) Qualified land.--The term `qualified land' 
                means, with respect to a person, any plot of land owned 
                or operated by the person, the annual gross sales from 
                the specialty crops produced on which are not more than 
                $249,000.
                    ``(B) Specialty crop.--The term `specialty crop' 
                has the meaning provided in section 3(1) of the 
                Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the date that is 1 year after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
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