[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4382 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4382

   To amend the Federal Food Donation Act of 2008 to require certain 
  Federal contractors to submit a report on food waste, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 13, 2016

 Mr. McNerney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Federal Food Donation Act of 2008 to require certain 
  Federal contractors to submit a report on food waste, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Food Waste Accountability Act of 
2016''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON FOOD WASTE BY CERTAIN FEDERAL CONTRACTORS.

    Section 4 of the Federal Food Donation Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-
247; 42 U.S.C. 1792) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by inserting after ``this Act'' the following: 
                ``(or 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
                paragraph (3) with respect to the requirements in such 
                paragraph)'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (C) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(3) requires the annual submission, in a form and manner 
        specified by the executive agency awarding the contract, of the 
        report described in subsection (c).''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsections:
    ``(c) Report Described.--The report described in this subsection, 
with respect to a contract described in subsection (a) entered into by 
a contractor and an executive agency, is a report from the contractor 
to the executive agency that describes, for each month of performance 
of the contract during the year covered by the report, the weight of 
apparently wholesome food that was, pursuant to the contract, disposed 
of in each of the following manners:
            ``(1) Donation.--Donation by the contractor pursuant to 
        this Act (organized by the name of the organization receiving 
        such food).
            ``(2) Composting.--Composting or other recycling by the 
        contractor.
            ``(3) Discarding.--Discarding by the contractor (organized 
        by the reason such food was so discarded).
    ``(d) Aggregation of Data.--
            ``(1) Reports to omb.--Not later than 30 days after the 
        date that an executive agency receives a report pursuant to 
        subsection (a)(3), the agency shall submit a copy of the report 
        to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
            ``(2) Reports to congress.--The Director of the Office of 
        Management and Budget shall submit to Congress an annual report 
        aggregating the information in the reports received pursuant to 
        paragraph (1) during the year covered by the report.''.
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