104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB3323 Introduced , by Rep. Rita Mayfield SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 20 ILCS 205/205-455 new Amends the Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Agriculture to create a grant program to award grants of up to $250,000 to cover the costs and labor of any qualified applicant farmer to distribute healthy, free food to expectant mothers in need who reside in the same county or in a municipality within 20 miles of the farmer's farm. Requires the Department to adopt rules. Defines terms. LRB104 11264 BDA 21348 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB3323 Introduced , by Rep. Rita Mayfield SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 20 ILCS 205/205-455 new 20 ILCS 205/205-455 new Amends the Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Agriculture to create a grant program to award grants of up to $250,000 to cover the costs and labor of any qualified applicant farmer to distribute healthy, free food to expectant mothers in need who reside in the same county or in a municipality within 20 miles of the farmer's farm. Requires the Department to adopt rules. Defines terms. LRB104 11264 BDA 21348 b LRB104 11264 BDA 21348 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB3323 Introduced , by Rep. Rita Mayfield SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 205/205-455 new 20 ILCS 205/205-455 new
20 ILCS 205/205-455 new
Amends the Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Agriculture to create a grant program to award grants of up to $250,000 to cover the costs and labor of any qualified applicant farmer to distribute healthy, free food to expectant mothers in need who reside in the same county or in a municipality within 20 miles of the farmer's farm. Requires the Department to adopt rules. Defines terms.
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1 AN ACT concerning State government.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil
5 Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding Section
6 205-455 as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 205/205-455 new)
8 Sec. 205-455. Local farmer grant program for expectant
9 mothers in need.
10 (a) In this Section:
11 "Expectant mother" means an individual who is pregnant.
12 "Expectant mother in need" means an expectant mother whose
13 household income does not exceed 200% of the poverty
14 guidelines updated periodically in the Federal Register by the
15 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the
16 authority of 42 U.S.C. 9902(2).
17 "Farmer" means a person who owns or manages a farm.
18 "Farm" means the main place of business of the farmer,
19 where the farmer is engaged in agriculture, raising living
20 organisms for food.
21 (b) Subject to appropriation, the Department shall, by
22 rule, create a grant program to award grants of up to $250,000
23 to cover the costs and labor of any qualified applicant farmer
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB3323 Introduced , by Rep. Rita Mayfield SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 205/205-455 new 20 ILCS 205/205-455 new
20 ILCS 205/205-455 new
Amends the Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Agriculture to create a grant program to award grants of up to $250,000 to cover the costs and labor of any qualified applicant farmer to distribute healthy, free food to expectant mothers in need who reside in the same county or in a municipality within 20 miles of the farmer's farm. Requires the Department to adopt rules. Defines terms.
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