HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2737        FILED ON: 1/19/2023

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 150

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Mindy Domb

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to an agricultural healthy incentives program.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Mindy Domb

3rd Hampshire

1/13/2023

Lindsay N. Sabadosa

1st Hampshire

1/19/2023

Natalie M. Blais

1st Franklin

1/20/2023

Joanne M. Comerford

Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester

1/23/2023

Hannah Kane

11th Worcester

1/25/2023

Sean Garballey

23rd Middlesex

1/26/2023

Smitty Pignatelli

3rd Berkshire

1/26/2023

Patricia A. Duffy

5th Hampden

1/26/2023

James C. Arena-DeRosa

8th Middlesex

1/26/2023

Samantha Montaño

15th Suffolk

1/26/2023

Susan Williams Gifford

2nd Plymouth

1/26/2023

Susannah M. Whipps

2nd Franklin

1/26/2023

David M. Rogers

24th Middlesex

1/27/2023

Joseph D. McKenna

18th Worcester

1/27/2023

Daniel R. Carey

2nd Hampshire

1/28/2023

Brian W. Murray

10th Worcester

1/29/2023

Kate Donaghue

19th Worcester

1/30/2023

Danielle W. Gregoire

4th Middlesex

1/31/2023

Simon Cataldo

14th Middlesex

2/1/2023

Daniel Cahill

10th Essex

2/1/2023

Michael J. Soter

8th Worcester

2/1/2023

Paul A. Schmid III

8th Bristol

2/1/2023

Brian M. Ashe

2nd Hampden

2/2/2023

Paul McMurtry

11th Norfolk

2/2/2023

Antonio F. D. Cabral

13th Bristol

2/2/2023

Steven Ultrino

33rd Middlesex

2/2/2023

Carol A. Doherty

3rd Bristol

2/2/2023

Margaret R. Scarsdale

1st Middlesex

2/3/2023

Jack Patrick Lewis

7th Middlesex

2/5/2023

Bud L. Williams

11th Hampden

2/6/2023

Jon Santiago

9th Suffolk

2/6/2023

Steven S. Howitt

4th Bristol

2/7/2023

Thomas M. Stanley

9th Middlesex

2/7/2023

Carole A. Fiola

6th Bristol

2/7/2023

Tricia Farley-Bouvier

2nd Berkshire

2/8/2023

Julian Cyr

Cape and Islands

2/8/2023

Vanna Howard

17th Middlesex

2/10/2023

Colleen M. Garry

36th Middlesex

2/13/2023

Erika Uyterhoeven

27th Middlesex

2/13/2023

James B. Eldridge

Middlesex and Worcester

2/19/2023

Bruce E. Tarr

First Essex and Middlesex

2/21/2023

Walter F. Timilty

Norfolk, Plymouth and Bristol

2/21/2023

Sal N. DiDomenico

Middlesex and Suffolk

2/21/2023

Rebecca L. Rausch

Norfolk, Worcester and Middlesex

2/23/2023

Ryan C. Fattman

Worcester and Hampden

2/24/2023

Christine P. Barber

34th Middlesex

2/27/2023

Carlos González

10th Hampden

3/1/2023

Michael P. Kushmerek

3rd Worcester

3/16/2023

Natalie M. Higgins

4th Worcester

3/16/2023

Tram T. Nguyen

18th Essex

3/27/2023

Tommy Vitolo

15th Norfolk

3/30/2023

Joan B. Lovely

Second Essex

4/12/2023

Jason M. Lewis

Fifth Middlesex

5/9/2023

Steven George Xiarhos

5th Barnstable

10/30/2023

Andres X. Vargas

3rd Essex

11/30/2023

Michelle L. Ciccolo

15th Middlesex

12/6/2023

Adrian C. Madaro

1st Suffolk

1/18/2024

Estela A. Reyes

4th Essex

1/31/2024


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2737        FILED ON: 1/19/2023

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 150

By Representative Domb of Amherst, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 150) of Mindy Domb and others for legislation to authorize agricultural healthy incentives program.  Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.

 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 250 OF 2021-2022.]

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
(2023-2024)

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An Act relative to an agricultural healthy incentives program.

 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Chapter 128 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 2E the following section:-

Section 2F. (a) The department of transitional assistance, in partnership with the department of agricultural resources and the department of public health, shall operate a healthy incentives program. The program shall provide that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, established pursuant to the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, 7 U.S.C. section 2011 hereinafter referred to as SNAP, redeemed for fruit and vegetable purchases, either fresh, canned, dried or frozen, by a SNAP recipient at a participating vendor, shall entitle the recipient to receive a matching benefit reimbursed on the recipient’s EBT card, within limits to be established by the department.

(b) There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate fund, to be administered by the commissioner of the department of transitional assistance, which shall be known as the Massachusetts Healthy Incentives Fund. The Fund shall consist of all revenues from public and private sources as appropriations, gifts, grants, donations, reimbursements from the federal government and grants-in-aid or other receipts to further the purposes of the Fund in accordance with this section.

(c ) The Department of Transitional Assistance and its partners may apply for any available federal programs such as Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program administered by the United States Department of Agriculture to provide matching benefits to be deposited in the Fund.

SECTION 2. The Department of Transitional Assistance shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement the program set forth in section 1.