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[S. 5329 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.5329

                    One Hundred Seventeenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
          the third day of January, two thousand and twenty two


                                 An Act


 
 To amend the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act to improve 
                  the program, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. BILL EMERSON GOOD SAMARITAN FOOD DONATION ACT.
    The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act (42 U.S.C. 1791) 
is amended--
        (1) in subsection (b)--
            (A) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``or is charged a good 
        Samaritan reduced price'' before the period at the end;
            (B) by redesignating paragraphs (6) through (10) as 
        paragraphs (7) through (11), respectively;
            (C) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following:
        ``(6) Good samaritan reduced price.--The term `good Samaritan 
    reduced price' means, with respect to the price of an apparently 
    wholesome food or apparently fit grocery product, a price that is 
    an amount not greater than the cost of handling, administering, 
    harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, and distributing 
    the apparently wholesome food or apparently fit grocery product.''; 
    and
            (D) by adding at the end the following:
        ``(12) Qualified direct donor.--The term `qualified direct 
    donor' means a retail grocer, wholesaler, agricultural producer, 
    agricultural processor, agricultural distributor, restaurant, 
    caterer, school food authority, or institution of higher education 
    (as defined in section 102 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
    U.S.C. 1002)).''; and
        (2) in subsection (c)--
            (A) in paragraphs (1) and (2), by inserting ``at zero cost 
        or at a good Samaritan reduced price'' after ``needy 
        individuals'' each place it appears;
            (B) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4);
            (C) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
        ``(3) Direct donations to needy individuals.--A qualified 
    direct donor shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability 
    arising from the nature, age, packaging, or condition of apparently 
    wholesome food or an apparently fit grocery product that the 
    qualified direct donor donates in good faith to a needy individual 
    at zero cost.''; and
            (D) in paragraph (4) (as so redesignated), by striking 
        ``and (2)'' and inserting ``, (2), and (3)''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.