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Latest Action: House - 05/20/2025 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. This bill has the status Introduced
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): No concrete delivery found in the 2026-08-20 to 2026-09-18 lookback. The current Congress record shows Evans is an original cosponsor of H.R.3506, but the bill remains only introduced/referred, not enacted.
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Cosponsor Date Cosponsored Rep. Evans, Dwight [D-PA-3]* 05/20/2025
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Congress.gov identifies Dwight Evans as an original cosponsor of the 2025 Healthy Food Financing Initiative reauthorization effort, a concrete legislative attempt related to healthy-food access in underserved communities.
Of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall use to carry out this section-- ``(1) $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2026
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The introduced bill text would provide mandatory funding for HFFI beginning in FY2026, showing a funding proposal but not enactment or implementation.
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Latest Action: House - 04/25/2023 Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture. This bill has the status Introduced
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Evans cosponsored a farmers-market bill in the prior Congress, but Congress.gov records it as introduced/referred only, so it was an effort rather than a delivered policy outcome.
to provide funding assistance for the expansion and construction of farmers' markets in both rural and urban food desert areas;
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The bill text directly matches the commitment’s substance: federal assistance for farmers markets in food desert areas. It remains evidence of effort because the bill was not enacted.
Companion legislation was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by U.S. Representatives Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and Dwight Evans (D-Pa.).
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): An official Senate release corroborates Evans’ role in the House companion bill for farmers-market and food-bank revitalization, including food desert farmers-market funding described in the same release.