Local Farmers Feeding Our Communities Program (H.R. 4782 — included in the bill, Sec. 4306) Helps farmers sell more food locally by connecting farms with nearby buyers like schools, food banks, and community food programs.
Will support programs that help farmers sell more food locally by connecting farms with nearby institutional and community buyers.
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H.R. 4782 was introduced with Mr. Riley of New York listed among the original introducers/cosponsors. The bill would direct USDA to establish cooperative agreements to increase local food purchases, support covered local producers, broaden partnerships with producers and the food distribution community, purchase local foods from covered producers, distribute them through nonprofits and other food-distribution organizations, and build economic opportunity for local producers.
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 154 on H.R. 7567, the Farm, Food, and National Security Act, as an On Passage yea-and-nay vote on April 30, 2026. The bill passed 224-200, and Riley (NY), Democrat, New York, is recorded as voting Yea.
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Riley promised to support programs connecting farmers with nearby institutional and community buyers. During his current House term, he materially supported that exact policy by joining H.R. 4782, the Local Farmers Feeding Our Communities Act, and voting for H.R. 7567 after it incorporated a local farm-to-community buyer program. Because the promise was framed as support rather than guaranteed enactment, these same-term legislative actions satisfy the commitment.