HF 2042: Relating to programs that address food insecurity, making appropriations, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions

What it does

This bill relates to programs that address food insecurity. The bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS), in coordination with the department of education, to immediately upon the effective date of the bill submit a letter of intent to apply for and participate in the summer electronic benefits transfer (EBT) for children program made permanent by the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, administered by the United States department of agriculture food and nutrition service (USDA) during summer 2024, to coordinate with the USDA to develop a successful management and administration plan for the summer EBT program for children, and to submit the plan to the USDA by February 15, 2024.

Lobbying · 10 for, 0 against

For: Common Good Iowa; Des Moines Area Religious Council; Iowa Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers; Iowa Catholic Conference; Iowa Chapter-American Academy of Pediatrics; Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence; Iowa Farmers Union; Iowa Public Health Association; Iowa State Education Association

In plain words

1. January 16, 2024Filed in the House and sent to the Health and Human Services committee