SB2671 - Summary

• Updates reporting obligations for state departments under Act 175 and Act 176 regarding locally sourced product procurement and the farm to school program.

• Requires departments to report to the legislature no later than 20 days before each regular session beginning in 2022, including total food costs, total produce purchased, and amounts of locally sourced products purchased (all measured as percentage of total food cost).

• Mandates departments report the percentage of fresh local agricultural and local value-added processed food products purchased, expressed as a ratio of total food cost.

• Requires departments to explain in their reports if they failed to meet relevant benchmarks for locally sourced product procurement.

• Effective January 1, 2023.