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This bill would change a federal nutrition incentive program so families can use it all year instead of only when certain fresh foods are available. It would let the program count fresh frozen fruits and vegetables, which could make it easier for people to buy healthy foods in every season. It would also expand the kinds of foods covered to include legumes, like beans and lentils, along with fruits and vegetables.
- It aims to make the nutrition incentive available year-round by allowing fresh frozen fruits or vegetables to be used.
- It updates the program’s food list to include legumes, not just fruits and vegetables.
- It changes wording in the law so the program can support both fresh and fresh frozen produce options.
Official Summaries
Supporting all Healthy Options when Purchasing Produce Act of 2025 or the SHOPP Act of 2025
This bill modifies the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) to include fresh frozen fruits and vegetables.
GusNIP is a Department of Agriculture (USDA) program that provides grants for projects that increase low-income consumers' purchases of fruits and vegetables. It is made up of three competitive grant programs, including the GusNIP Nutrition Incentive Program, which provides grants for projects that provide incentives for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants to purchase fruits and vegetables.
The bill directs USDA, in awarding GusNIP Nutrition Incentive Program grants, to give priority to projects that increase year-round availability of nutrition incentives by offering fresh frozen fruits or vegetables in the program.
In addition, the bill amends another GusNIP program, the Produce Prescription Program, to include fresh frozen fruits and vegetables, as well as fresh and fresh frozen legumes. Currently, only fresh fruits and vegetables are covered under the program.
The GusNIP Produce Prescription Program supports projects that demonstrate and evaluate the impact of fruit and vegetable prescriptions on increasing procurement and consumption of fruits and vegetables, reducing individual and household food insecurity, and reducing healthcare usage and associated costs.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 813 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 813
To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to provide
families year-round access to nutrition incentives under the Gus
Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 3, 2025
Mr. Cornyn (for himself, Mr. Lujan, and Mr. Tuberville) 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 Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to provide
families year-round access to nutrition incentives under the Gus
Schumacher Nutrition Incentive 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 ``Supporting all Healthy Options when
Purchasing Produce Act of 2025'' or the ``SHOPP Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. NUTRITION INCENTIVES UNDER GUS SCHUMACHER NUTRITION INCENTIVE
PROGRAM.
Section 4405 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7
U.S.C. 7517) is amended--
(1) in subsection (b)(2)(B)--
(A) by redesignating clauses (ix) and (x) as
clauses (x) and (xi), respectively; and
(B) by inserting after clause (viii) the following:
``(ix) increase the year-round availability
of the incentive described in subparagraph
(A)(ii)(II) by offering fresh frozen fruits or
vegetables;''; and
(2) in subsection (c)--
(A) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking ``fruits and
vegetables'' and inserting ``fruits, vegetables, and
legumes''; and
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ``fresh fruits
and vegetables'' each place it appears and inserting
``fresh or fresh frozen fruits, vegetables, and
legumes''.
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