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Committee approves bill to let churches and nonprofits serve food in disasters and to homeless shelters
Summary
The Kentucky House Agriculture Committee voted to advance House Bill 186, which relaxes requirements that had limited churches and nonprofits from serving food to people displaced by declared natural disasters and to homeless shelters.
House Bill 186, which would ease regulatory barriers so churches and nonprofit groups can provide food to people in declared disasters and to homeless shelters, cleared the Kentucky House Agriculture Committee after a floor of questions and supportive remarks.
Representative Robert Duvall, state representative for District 17, introduced the bill, saying it “streamlines the process for churches and nonprofits to be able to provide food for homeless shelters and for those who have been displaced due to natural disasters.” The bill…
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