EFFECTIVE Food Procurement Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill directs USDA food procurement to favor equitable, labor-supporting, and climate-resilient food criteria, reserves contracting opportunities for smaller and disadvantaged producers, and creates a best-value pilot, technical assistance, and grant support for those vendors.
Who Benefits and How
Beginning, veteran, socially disadvantaged, and smaller farmers, ranchers, fishers, and mission-aligned food entities would gain better access to USDA purchasing, grants, and technical assistance. Food-program users could also see broader sourcing and diet-accommodation options.
Who Bears the Burden and How
USDA would have to redesign procurement criteria, track supply-chain and emissions information, run new reporting and grant programs, and shift purchasing away from suppliers that do not meet the bill's preferred standards.
Key Provisions
- Defines covered producers and covered entities for preferential procurement treatment.
- Requires USDA food purchasing to include equity, resilience, worker, and climate criteria and to publish recurring reports and targets.
- Sets aside annual procurement funds for covered producers and covered entities.
- Creates a best-value procurement pilot, technical assistance, and competitive grants to help eligible producers qualify as USDA vendors.
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill directs USDA food procurement to favor equitable, labor-supporting, and climate-resilient food criteria, reserves contracting opportunities for smaller and disadvantaged producers, and creates a best-value pilot, technical assistance, and grant support for those vendors.
Key Policy Areas
Agriculture, Labor, Environment
Primary Purpose
This bill directs USDA food procurement to favor equitable, labor-supporting, and climate-resilient food criteria, reserves contracting opportunities for smaller and disadvantaged producers, and creates a best-value pilot, technical assistance, and grant support for those vendors.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Covered producers and covered entities seeking USDA contracts
- School food authorities and food banks using USDA commodity programs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- USDA procurement administrators
- Incumbent suppliers that do not satisfy the new preferred criteria
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeCommittee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
Mr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Welch, …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Covered producers and covered entities that meet the preferred sourcing criteria, Grant recipients needing food safety upgrades, audits, insurance, or food safety plans
USDA procurement administrators and reporting staff, USDA staff running the pilot, technical assistance, and grant reporting requirements
Incumbent food suppliers that do not meet the preferred sourcing and labor criteria
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Agriculture
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