GusNIP Expansion Act of 2026
Sponsored By: Representative Crawford
Introduced
Summary
Expanding federal funding for nutrition incentives and creating a Produce Prescription Program to grow and evaluate programs that help people buy more fruits and vegetables through SNAP-linked incentives and clinic-based prescriptions. This law scales statewide incentive programs, raises grant caps for produce-prescription pilots, and sets rules to prioritize underserved areas and retail types.
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- Families and SNAP participants: More federal support for food-incentive projects means bigger and broader incentive availability at retailers and farmers markets. Some grants must spend at least 90 percent of funds on redeemed incentives by the end of each agreement.
- Patients and clinics: A Produce Prescription pilot and expansion track fund projects that serve at least 300 patients, last 12 months or longer, and test effects on fruit and vegetable intake, food insecurity, and health care use.
- State agencies, nonprofits, and retailers: New 4-year cooperative agreements fund statewide scaling but only with prior GusNIP grantees and prioritize independent retailers and farmers markets.
*Net effect: increases federal spending by adding multi-year GusNIP funding, including $57.5 million per year for FY2027–2031 and $56.0 million per year beginning FY2032, with $12.0 million per year in FY2027–2031 earmarked for expansion grants.*
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
New annual GusNIP funding
If enacted, the bill would authorize $57,500,000 for each fiscal year 2027 through 2031 for GusNIP activities. It would authorize $56,000,000 for fiscal year 2032 and each year after. These are authorizations of appropriations and need future appropriation action to be spent.
Produce prescription grant program
If enacted, the bill would create a produce‑prescription grant program with two tracks: smaller pilot grants ($100,000–$400,000) and larger expansion/clinical research grants ($1,000,000–$2,500,000). The bill would split funds 50/50 between pilots and expansion, and set aside $12,000,000 per year for expansion grants for each fiscal year 2027 through 2031. Expansion grants would require at least 300 patients, a matched comparison group or evidence of scalability, and interventions of 12 months or longer. The Secretary would have to set up a review panel to consider applications within one year of enactment.
Statewide SNAP incentive agreements
If enacted, the bill would push most new GusNIP money into multi-year cooperative agreements that scale statewide incentive programs. Agreements must last at least four years, generally go only to prior GusNIP grantees, and require that at least 90% of the agreement funds be spent on redeemed incentives at eligible retailers before the agreement ends. The Secretary would be required to use 80% of remaining funds for these cooperative agreements and to prioritize projects that work with independent retailers and farmers markets. The bill would also cap the federal share of project costs at 50% but let the Secretary waive that cap in persistent poverty counties or census tracts that meet 20% poverty thresholds (measured by the decennial census and SAIPE for counties, and the 5-year ACS for tracts).
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Crawford
AR • R
Cosponsors
Rep. Nunn, Zachary [R-IA-3]
IA • R
Sponsored 2/13/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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