Resilient Food Supply Chain and Affordability Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill keeps the USDA Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure program operating in the same manner as it exists at enactment, but broadens eligible uses of assistance. Recipients of RFSI assistance may use program funding for activities related to meat and poultry products. That inserts meat and poultry into a program originally established under the American Rescue Plan Act to strengthen food supply chains and infrastructure, potentially making processing, aggregation, distribution, and related supply-chain work for these products eligible under the program.
Who Benefits and How
Meat processors, poultry processors, livestock producers, poultry producers, food supply-chain grantees, regional food infrastructure projects, and consumers facing food affordability pressure benefit if RFSI funding can support meat and poultry infrastructure.
Who Bears the Burden and How
USDA, RFSI program administrators, state administering agencies, existing grantees, and applicants in other food categories must update guidance, award conditions, eligible-use reviews, and allocation decisions to include meat and poultry activities within the continuing program.
Key Provisions
- Requires USDA to continue carrying out the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure program.
- Expands eligible uses so recipients may use program assistance for meat and poultry product activities.
- Applies the meat and poultry eligibility expansion beginning on the date of enactment.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Continues USDA’s Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure program and expands allowable uses so recipients can spend program assistance on activities related to meat and poultry products.
Key Policy Areas
Agriculture, Food Supply, Rural Development
Primary Purpose
Continues USDA’s Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure program and expands allowable uses so recipients can spend program assistance on activities related to meat and poultry products.
Policy Domains
Bill-wide scope
Identified Gains
- Meat processors
- Poultry processors
- Livestock producers
- Poultry producers
- Food supply-chain grantees
- Regional food infrastructure projects
Identified Costs
- USDA
- RFSI program administrators
- State administering agencies
- Existing grantees
- Other food-category applicants
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Introduced in House
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Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Food supply-chain grantees, Meat processors, Other food-category applicants
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "RFSI"
- → Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure program
- "primary_beneficiaries"
- → Meat processors, Poultry processors, Livestock producers, Poultry producers, Food supply-chain grantees, Regional food infrastructure projects
- "primary_burden_bearers"
- → USDA, RFSI program administrators, State administering agencies, Existing grantees, Other food-category applicants
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