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Senate bill would let nonprofit mobile markets accept WIC and senior farmers market benefits
Summary
Senate Bill 5214 would create a mobile market category and authorize the Department of Health to allow nonprofit mobile markets to accept WIC and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program benefits, with an effective date of May 1, 2025, subject to USDA funding and any required waivers.
Senate Bill 5214 would authorize a state mobile market program and direct the Washington State Department of Health to establish rules allowing nonprofit mobile market operators to accept WIC and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program benefits if federal funding and any USDA waivers are available. The bill includes an emergency clause setting an effective date of May 1, 2025.
The measure’s sponsor, Senator Sharon Schumake, said mobile markets serve rural communities that lack grocery access and that the proposal is intended to improve geographic equity. “Washington state produces $1 billion worth of fresh food and produce. But when our rural people can't access them, that's just not fair,” Schumake told the committee. She said…
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