Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

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4	4	2023 SENATE BILL 948
5	5	January 26, 2024 - Introduced by Senators BALLWEG, CARPENTER, PFAFF, QUINN,
6	6	ROYS, SPREITZER and LARSON, cosponsored by Representatives JOERS, HURD,
7	7	VINING, BEHNKE, PENTERMAN, RATCLIFF, ROZAR, SCHMIDT, C. ANDERSON, J.
8	8	ANDERSON, ANDRACA, BALDEH, BARE, CLANCY, CONLEY, CONSIDINE, DONOVAN,
9	9	DRAKE, EDMING, EMERSON, S. JOHNSON, MADISON, MELOTIK, MOORE OMOKUNDE,
10	10	MURSAU, NOVAK, O'CONNOR, OHNSTAD, PALMERI, SCHUTT, SHANKLAND, SHELTON,
11	11	SINICKI, SNODGRASS, STUBBS, SUBECK, KRUG, NEUBAUER, BRANDTJEN and
12	12	JACOBSON. Referred to Committee on Health.
13	13	AN ACT to amend 20.435 (4) (bt); and to create 49.79 (7w) of the statutes;
14	14	relating to: healthy food incentive program.
15	15	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
16	16	This bill requires the Department of Health Services, through a competitive
17	17	selection process, to contract with one or more nonprofit organizations to administer
18	18	a healthy food incentive program statewide. Under the program, FoodShare
19	19	recipients who use FoodShare benefits for purchases at an eligible retailer would
20	20	receive an amount up to the amount of benefits used at the eligible retailer for the
21	21	purpose of purchasing fruits and vegetables from the eligible retailer. FoodShare,
22	22	also known as the food stamp program and the federal Supplemental Nutrition
23	23	Assistance Program, provides a monetary benefit to individuals who have limited
24	24	financial resources for the purpose of purchasing food products. DHS administers
25	25	the FoodShare program.
26	26	Under the bill, eligible retailers include supermarkets, grocery stores, farmers'
27	27	markets, nonprofit cooperatives, and farmers who sell directly to consumers among
28	28	other types of food sellers. The retailers must be authorized retailers in the
29	29	FoodShare program participating in the healthy food incentive program. The bill
30	30	requires a nonprofit organization to prioritize including in the healthy food incentive
31	31	program eligible retailers that source fruits and vegetables primarily from
32	32	Wisconsin growers. The bill allows DHS to limit the amount of benefits per day that
33	33	a recipient is allowed to match through the healthy food incentive program.
34	34	The bill limits the percent of funding that is available for the healthy food
35	35	incentive program that DHS may allocate to program development, promotion of and
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40	40	outreach for the program, training, data collection, evaluation, administration, and
41	41	reporting for the healthy food incentive program. DHS must allocate the rest of the
42	42	funding to participating eligible retailers. The bill also requires DHS to seek any
43	43	available federal matching moneys from the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive
44	44	Program, which is a federal grant program administered by the National Institute
45	45	of Food and Agriculture of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to fund the healthy
46	46	food incentive program. The bill redirects general purpose revenue funding that had
47	47	been appropriated to a healthy eating incentive pilot program to the healthy food
48	48	incentive program.
49	49	For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
50	50	an appendix to this bill.
51	51	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
52	52	enact as follows:
53	53	SECTION 1. 20.435 (4) (bt) of the statutes is amended to read:
54	54	20.435 (4) (bt) Healthy eating incentive pilot food incentive program. As a
55	55	continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule to contract with an entity to
56	56	develop and administer the healthy eating incentive food incentive program under
57	57	s. 49.79 (7r). No moneys may be expended under this paragraph after December 31,
58	58	2019, except for moneys encumbered on or before that date. (7w). The unencumbered
59	59	balance in this appropriation account as of June 30, 2023, may be used for the healthy
60	60	food incentive program under s. 49.79 (7w), including as the matching state portion
61	61	of any amounts received through the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program.
62	62	SECTION 2. 49.79 (7w) of the statutes is created to read:
63	63	49.79 (7w) HEALTHY FOOD INCENTIVE PROGRAM. (a) In this subsection:
64	64	1. “Eligible retailer” includes any supermarket, grocery store, wholesaler,
65	65	small-scale store, corner store, convenience store, neighborhood store, bodega,
66	66	farmers' market, direct-marketing farmer, nonprofit cooperative food-purchasing
67	67	venture, or community-supported agriculture program authorized to participate in
68	68	the food stamp program.
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89	89	2. “Fruits and vegetables” means any variety of fresh, canned, dried, or frozen
90	90	whole or cut fruit or vegetable that does not contain added sugar, fat, oil, or salt.
91	91	(b) The department shall, through a competitive selection process, contract
92	92	with one or more nonprofit organizations to administer a healthy food incentive
93	93	program statewide. The healthy food incentive program shall provide to any food
94	94	stamp program recipient that uses benefits at an eligible retailer participating in the
95	95	healthy food incentive program under this subsection a monetary amount up to the
96	96	amount of food stamp program benefits used at the eligible retailer for the purpose
97	97	of purchasing fruits and vegetables from the eligible retailer. In administering the
98	98	program, a nonprofit organization shall prioritize including in the healthy food
99	99	incentive program eligible retailers that source fruits and vegetables primarily from
100	100	growers in this state. The department may establish a maximum amount of benefits
101	101	that may be matched per day for a food stamp program recipient.
102	102	(c) The department may allocate no more than 25 percent of the funding
103	103	available for the healthy food incentive program under this subsection to program
104	104	development, promotion of and outreach for the program, training, data collection,
105	105	evaluation, administration, and reporting and shall allocate the remainder of the
106	106	funding available to the eligible retailers participating in the healthy food incentive
107	107	program under this subsection. The department shall seek any available federal
108	108	matching moneys from the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program to fund
109	109	the healthy food incentive program under this subsection.
110	110	(d) Beginning no later than one year after the effective date of this paragraph
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112	112	chief clerk of each house of the legislature, for distribution to the appropriate
113	113	standing committees of the legislature under s. 13.172 (3), a report regarding
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141	141	implementation of the program under this subsection, including data collected
142	142	relating to funding and participation and any other information necessary to
143	143	evaluate the program.
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