EFFECTIVE Food Procurement Act
Committee hearing: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Committee hearing
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 5
- Latest action
- Jan 14, 2026
What it does
The EFFECTIVE Food Procurement Act would require the Department of Agriculture to prioritize purchasing foods that support equity, worker well-being, environmental sustainability, and climate resilience, including from beginning, veteran, socially disadvantaged, and small or medium-sized producers. It mandates baseline and annual reporting on food procurement spending and associated greenhouse gas emissions, sets targets for increasing sustainable purchases by 2032, and authorizes $2 million annually for a set-aside program to contract with covered producers and entities. The bill also establishes a best value procurement pilot program to evaluate bids using tradeoff analysis that favors…
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