House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Food Deserts Act
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to States to support the establishment and operation of grocery stores in underserved communities, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 16, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 14, 2025 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 484.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARSON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 9, January 16, 2025, Page H222):Clause 18 of section 8 of Article I of the Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 16, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
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- Statement length
- 56 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 484, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/484
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 4, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
68 cosponsors — 68 Democrats
0 of 68 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Wesley Bell (D-MO), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Troy Carter (D-LA), Sean Casten (D-IL), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Danny Davis (D-IL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Cleo Fields (D-LA), John Garamendi (D-CA), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Jesús García (D-IL), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Al Green (D-TX), Steven Horsford (D-NV), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Julie Johnson (D-TX), William Keating (D-MA) and 38 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. André Carson.
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.