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HR 484 · in committee · significant

Food Deserts Act

What this bill does

  • This bill creates a federal grant program to fund state revolving loan funds for grocery stores in food deserts.
  • It affects underserved communities with limited access to affordable healthy food and high rates of hunger or poverty.
  • States receive grants to make loans to grocery stores that meet affordability and nutrition standards, with no specified federal cost.

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Community Threads

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  1. 01

    How would states prioritize which food deserts receive funding, and what metrics would determine whether a grocery store meets affordability and nutrition standards?

  2. 02

    What happens to communities if grocery stores funded through these loans later close or fail to maintain affordable pricing requirements?

  3. 03

    Should the federal government bear the full cost of this program, or should it be shared between states and private investors?

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Sponsor · D-IN-7

André Carson

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Introduced 2025-02-14

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-02-14 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.

  2. 2025-02-14 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.

  3. 2025-01-16 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

  4. 2025-01-16 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  5. 2025-01-16 · IntroReferral

    Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E41)

  6. 2025-01-16 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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