Virginia SB 1073: Virginia Food Access Investment Program and Fund; established and created, report.

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CHAPTER 957 

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 36 a 
chapter numbered 10.2, consisting of sections numbered 36-156.3 through 
36-156.6, relating to the Virginia Food Access Investment Program and Fund. 

[S 1073] 

Approved April 9, 2020 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Title 36 
a chapter numbered 10.2, consisting of sections numbered 36-156.3 through 
36-156.6, as follows:

CHAPTER 10.2. 

VIRGINIA FOOD ACCESS INVESTMENT PROGRAM AND FUND. 

� 36-156.3. Definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a 
different meaning:

"CDFI" means a community development financial 
institution that provides credit and financial services for underserved 
communities.

"Department" means the Department of Agriculture 
and Consumer Services.

"Fund" means the Virginia Food Access Investment 
Fund.

"Funding" means loans, forgivable loans, and 
grants made from the Fund.

"Grocery store" means a for-profit or 
not-for-profit self-service retail establishment that primarily sells meat, 
seafood, fruits, vegetables, dairy products, dry groceries, household products, 
and sundries.

"Innovative food retail project" means an 
innovative project, including a mobile market or a delivery model, that 
addresses food access issues in an underserved community.

"Program" means the Virginia Food Access 
Investment Program.

"Small food retailer," also referred to as a 
small-scale store, neighborhood store, small grocery, farmer's market, or 
bodega, means a small retail outlet of under 2,500 square feet that sells a 
limited selection of foods and other products. 

"Underserved community" means a census tract 
determined to be an area with low supermarket access either by the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture (USDA), as identified in the USDA Food Access 
Research Atlas, or through a methodology that has been adopted for use by 
another governmental or philanthropic healthy food initiative.

� 36-156.4. Virginia Food Access Investment Fund.

There is hereby created in the state treasury a special 
nonreverting fund to be known as the Virginia Food Access Investment Fund. The 
Fund shall be established on the books of the Comptroller. All funds 
appropriated for such purpose and any gifts, donations, grants, bequests, and 
other funds received on its behalf shall be paid into the state treasury and 
credited to the Fund. Interest earned on moneys in the Fund shall remain in the 
Fund and be credited to it. Any moneys remaining in the Fund, including 
interest thereon, at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to the 
general fund but shall remain in the Fund. Moneys in the Fund shall be used 
solely for the purposes of establishing collaborative and cooperative projects 
with public and private sector partners to improve food access in Virginia. The 
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