118th Congress · HOUSE BILLBILL

H.R. 7762Healthy Food Access for All Americans Act

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a new tax credit and grant program to stimulate investment and healthy nutrition options in food deserts, and for other purposes.

Taxation
Introduced Mar 20, 2024
Last action Aug 30, 2024
Pipeline · Bill → Law
Step 1
Introduced
Mar 20, 2024
Step 2
Referred
Aug 30, 2024
Agriculture · Ways & Means
Step 3
Committee
Step 4
House floor
Step 5
Senate
Step 6
Resolve Changes
Step 7
Signed
SummaryCRS Summary

This bill allows tax credits and grants for activities that provide access to healthy food in food deserts, which are communities that have limited or no access to grocery stores and meet income requirements. For entities that are certified by the Department of the Treasury as special access food providers using specified criteria, the bill allows tax credits for operating a new grocery store or renovating an existing grocery store in a food desert. The bill also authorizes grants for a portion of (1) the construction costs of building a permanent food bank in a food desert, and (2) the annual operating costs of temporary access merchants (mobile markets, farmers markets, and food banks)....

Provisions · 3 sectionsIntroduced in House
Timeline · 4 actions
Aug 30, 2024
Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.
Mar 20, 2024
Introduced in House
Mar 20, 2024
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Mar 20, 2024
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.