Advance legislation to modernize the health care system by incorporating nutrition-based interventions to prevent and manage chronic disease.

Sharice Davids · Kansas · Democratic

policy impact 0.72 specificity 0.94 extraction confidence 96%

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Occurrences

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

Davids helped introduce a bill to integrate nutrition-based interventions into health care for chronic disease prevention and management.

Reps. Davids, Smucker Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Nutrition-Based Disease Prevention | Representative Sharice Davids
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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.

The bill would require CMS Innovation Center testing of a bundled payment model using produce prescriptions for chronic disease care.

Reps. Davids, Smucker Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Nutrition-Based Disease Prevention | Representative Sharice Davids
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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].

Establishes Davids's relevant federal service and that Congress.gov tracks her sponsored and cosponsored legislation during the period reviewed.

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Sharice Davids | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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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.

Davids's Congress.gov member-activity page includes H.R.6407, a health-sector nutrition bill, indicating concrete legislative activity related to incorporating nutrition therapy into health care. The bill did not advance beyond introduced/referred status by the end of the 118th Congress.

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Representative Sharice Davids Member Activity, page 14 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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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.

Shows an official example of the exact type of nutrition-based health care intervention contemplated by the promise, but it remained only introduced and was not enacted.

never unknown

H.R.5370 - Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Pilot Act of 2021 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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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.

Davids introduced food-systems legislation in the 119th Congress, but the official title and referral show agriculture/food infrastructure rather than a health-care-system nutrition intervention for chronic disease, and it remained introduced as of the evidence reviewed.

partial later_term A for effort

Sharice Davids | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Assessments

partial unknown A for effort

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.

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