Strengthening Local Food Security Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 5
- Latest action
- Jul 17, 2025
What it does
The Strengthening Local Food Security Act of 2025 would establish a new program under the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to support local food systems by providing mandatory and authorized funding to eligible government entities—such as state agencies, Tribal governments, and U.S. territories—to purchase food from local and regional small, mid-sized, beginning, veteran, and underserved producers and distribute it to schools, food banks, and underserved communities. The bill requires that at least 51% of purchased food come from covered producers, prioritizes distribution to underserved areas, limits administrative costs to 25% of funding (with at least 35% of that going to technical…
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Where it goes next
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