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Senator’s bill to raise state institutions’ local food goal to 30% draws broad support and procurement questions
Summary
Senator Craig Hickman’s LD 11 41 would raise the State’s institutional procurement goal from 20% to 30% by 2030 and formalize off‑contract “opportunity buying” to increase purchases from Maine food producers.
Senator Craig Hickman presented LD 11 41 to the Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, proposing to increase the State’s goal for procurement of Maine‑produced foods by state funded institutions from 20 percent to 30 percent by 2030 and to clarify and expand program language aimed at increasing purchases from in‑state producers.
What the bill would change: The proposal would (1) update the procurement goal to 30% by 02/01/2030, (2) define which “state institutions” are covered (the Department of Corrections, Department of Health and Human Services psychiatric centers, and Maine Veterans’ Homes were listed in the draft), (3) authorize and clarify “opportunity buying” (off‑contract purchases at discounts for items otherwise unavailable under a master agreement), and (4) define duties for an institutional food procurement coordinator to strengthen links among…
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