Sec. 4129. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study and report
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Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024, the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service, shall contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to carry out a study to assess the efficacy of allowing hot foods or hot food products ready for immediate consumption to be purchased with supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits issued under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq. ), including the impact on diet quality, purchasing power, and access to food. The study pursuant to the contract under subsection
(a)shall include— an assessment of currently available data, including data of instances of temporary emergency standards which disrupt commercial channels of food distribution where the prohibition on hot foods or hot food products ready for immediate consumption was temporarily lifted; an assessment of participating households’ diet quality, including whether diet quality would improve or worsen upon the termination of the prohibition on hot foods or hot food products ready for immediate consumption; an assessment of food access, including changes in the types of foods accessed for eligible households participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program upon the termination of the prohibition on hot foods or hot food products ready for immediate consumption; an assessment of participating households’ purchasing power of current supplemental nutrition assistance program allotments compared with what the purchasing power would be upon the termination of the prohibition on hot foods or hot food products ready for immediate consumption; and factors for the Congress to contemplate if considering the authorization of a pilot to test the termination of the prohibition on hot foods or hot food products ready for immediate consumption. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives a report on the study carried out under subsection
(a)to determine whether a pilot program for the termination of the prohibition on hot foods or hot food products ready for immediate consumption is warranted. Of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Secretary of Agriculture shall make available to carry out this section $1,000,000, to remain available until expended.
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