introduced the bipartisan Accountable Produce is Medicine Act, legislation aimed at modernizing the U.S. health care system by incorporating proven nutrition-based interventions to prevent and manage chronic disease
Advance legislation to modernize the health care system by incorporating nutrition-based interventions to prevent and manage chronic disease.
Occurrences
This legislation would direct the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to test a new bundled payment model that integrates “produce prescriptions” interventions into care for patients with chronic diseases.
eligible individuals would gain access to nutrition-focused support, including healthy foods, care coordination, and monitoring services
Evidence
Representative Sharice Davids ... In Congress 2019 - Present ... Party Democratic ... House Kansas, District 3 116th-119th (2019-Present). Member Activity: Sponsored Legislation [63]; Cosponsored Legislation (All) [1,422]; House Roll Call Votes [1,673].
H.R.6407 — 118th Congress (2023-2024) Medical Nutrition Therapy Act of 2023. Sponsor: Kelly, Robin L. [Rep.-D-IL-2] (Introduced 11/14/2023) Cosponsors: 29. Committees: House - Energy and Commerce; Ways and Means. Latest Action: House - 12/17/2024 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. This bill has the status Introduced.
H.R.5370 - Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Pilot Act of 2021. Latest Action: House - 09/24/2021 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. This bill has the status Introduced. Summary: This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to establish a demonstration program to allow hospitals to provide medically tailored, home-delivered meals to Medicare beneficiaries who have a diet-impacted disease.
H.R.7589 — 119th Congress (2025-2026) To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to continue to carry out the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure program, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Davids, Sharice [Rep.-D-KS-3] (Introduced 02/17/2026). Committees: House - Agriculture. Latest Action: House - 02/17/2026 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. This bill has the status Introduced.
Assessments
Davids appears to have materially engaged with nutrition-and-health legislation through member activity on H.R.6407, the Medical Nutrition Therapy Act of 2023, which fits the promised policy area of incorporating nutrition-based interventions into health care for chronic disease prevention and management. However, the relevant health-care nutrition bills cited remained introduced or referred and were not enacted or meaningfully advanced into law. Her 2026 sponsored food-systems bill is adjacent but not clearly a health-care-system chronic-disease nutrition intervention. This supports partial credit for a serious legislative effort, but not full delivery of the promised policy outcome.