Relating to the double up food bucks program and making appropriations

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedMarch 6, 2019
2. ✕
   Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
3. Next: House committee
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committee
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill appropriates $100,000 from the general fund of the state to the department of agriculture and land stewardship for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019, and ending June 30, 2020, to provide grants to support and expand the double up food bucks program administered by the Iowa healthiest state initiative to make fresh fruits and vegetables sold at farmers markets and grocery stores accessible to families or individuals who reside in this state and who receive assistance through the federal supplemental nutrition assistance program. A grant recipient that receives funding shall provide at least a dollar-for-dollar match of the grant assistance.

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