Official Summaries

Farmers’ Market Expansion Act of 2025

This bill includes tree nuts (including shelled tree nuts) as one of the eligible foods under the Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP). 

The Department of Agriculture's SFMNP provides grants to participating states to provide low-income seniors with coupons/vouchers that may be used at farmers’ markets, roadside stands, and community supported agriculture programs to purchase eligible foods (i.e., fresh, nutritious, unprepared, locally-grown fruits, vegetables, honey, and herbs).

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1145 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1145

To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to include 
the provision of tree nuts under the seniors farmers' market nutrition 
                    program, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 26, 2025

  Mr. Tuberville (for himself and Mr. Lujan) introduced the following 
      bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                  Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to include 
the provision of tree nuts under the seniors farmers' market nutrition 
                    program, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Farmers' Market Expansion Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. SENIORS FARMERS' MARKET NUTRITION PROGRAM.

    Section 4402(b)(1) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 
2002 (7 U.S.C. 3007(b)(1)) is amended by striking ``and herbs'' and 
inserting ``herbs, and tree nuts (including shelled tree nuts)''.
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