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House Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee advances fresh-food financing bill, extends racehorse-testing sunset, refers ear-cropping measure and tables food-w
Summary
The committee voted to report out a bill creating a permanent Fresh Food Financing Initiative and approved an amendment to make it effective immediately; it also extended a racehorse-medication testing sunset for three years, re-referred an ear‑cropping penalty bill to Judiciary and tabled a food-processing-waste hauling bill until April.
The House Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee on an undisclosed date advanced several bills affecting food access, animal welfare and waste management.
Representative Burgos, sponsor of House Bill 764, said, "House Bill 7 64 as amended will create a new chapter ... to create in statute the Fresh Food Financing Initiative," describing a program funded in the 2023, 2024 and 2025 budgets and proposed for 2025–26. The bill would authorize a permanent Fresh Food Financing Initiative under Title 3 and provide grant support to food retailers in low‑income and underserved communities to improve access to fresh foods.
The program as explained in the committee includes grants for equipment purchases and facility upgrades — "everything from new refrigerators to redoing the delivery facilities of a retail food facility," Burgos said — and gives…
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