Sec. 4101. Ensuring transparency and accountability in thrifty food plan
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Section 3(u) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2012(u) ) is amended, in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting after the second sentence the following: Those re-evaluations shall include an external peer review process and be submitted to Congress and the Comptroller General of the United States in accordance with section 801 of title 5, United States Code. To the extent legally allowable, the computer code and data used for the re-evaluations to generate the market baskets shall be made publicly available. .
Notwithstanding section 273.10(e)(4)(i) of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act), not later than January 1, 2025, the Secretary shall promulgate an interim final rule to use food price data throughout the State of Hawaii to calculate the cost of the thrifty food plan (as defined in section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2012 )) for that State. Except as provided in subparagraph (B), on October 1, 2025, and on October 1 of each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary shall apply the cost estimate for the thrifty food plan (as defined in section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2012 )) for the State of Hawaii pursuant to the interim final rule promulgated under paragraph (1).
For each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030, the Secretary may not apply the cost estimate described in subparagraph
(A)if that application would result in the cost of the diet under the thrifty food plan (as so defined) being below the amount of the cost of that diet as calculated using the method of calculating the cost of the diet under the thrifty food plan for the State of Hawaii for each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025.
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Ensuring transparency and accountability in thrifty food plan
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