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H129 • 2025

An Act relative to the healthy incentives program

An Act relative to the healthy incentives program

Agriculture
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Sponsor
Jones, Jr., Bradley H.
Last action
2025-11-12
Official status
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act relative to the healthy incentives program

An Act relative to the healthy incentives program By Representatives Jones of North Reading and Kane of Shrewsbury, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act relative to the healthy incentives program By Representatives Jones of North Reading and Kane of Shrewsbury, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 129) of Bradley H.
  • Jones, Jr., Hannah Kane and others relative to establishing a healthy incentives program for the purpose of ensuring the needs of SNAP recipients and farmers.
  • Agriculture.

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  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-11-12 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

  2. 2025-08-28 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 09/16/2025 from 10:00 AM-1:00 PM in B-1

  3. 2025-06-27 Joint

    Referred, pursuant to an order adopted by the two branches, to the committee on Agriculture and Fisheries

  4. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Agriculture

  5. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to the healthy incentives program
By Representatives Jones of North Reading and Kane of Shrewsbury, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 129) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., Hannah Kane and others relative to establishing a healthy incentives program for the purpose of ensuring the needs of SNAP recipients and farmers. Agriculture.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.129

SECTION 1. The department of transitional assistance and the department of agricultural resources shall jointly select a state-wide organization, which engages with both SNAP recipients and Massachusetts farmers, to conduct a survey regarding the healthy incentives program for the purpose of ensuring that said program is best meeting the needs of both consumers and farmers, and to inform future outreach efforts about the program. The survey shall be distributed to both participants and non participants of the program.

The survey shall collect information about the healthy incentives program from Massachusetts farmers and SNAP recipients, including, but not limited to:

(i) The knowledge that both participants and non participants have about the healthy incentives program including, but not limited to, the purpose and benefits of the program, and where and how the benefits of the program can be utilized;

(ii) the frequency with which participants utilize the program;

(iii) how and where participants learned about the program;

(iv) any barriers that both participants and non participants experience when trying to utilize the program;

(v) and feedback from both participants and non participants regarding their experiences with the program.

SECTION 2. The commissioners of the Massachusetts department of transitional assistance and the department of agricultural resources shall establish rules and procedures, including deadlines for dissemination and collection of survey information, consistent with the purposes of this act, and shall promote the effective solicitation to achieve the highest practical response rate, collection, and publication of information gathered from the commonwealth’s farmers and SNAP recipients regarding their experiences with and knowledge of the healthy incentive’s program. The commissioners shall ensure that the survey is conducted no later than 12 months within the passage of this act. The commissioners shall also ensure that the results of the survey are published on their department’s websites, and submitted to the clerks of the house and senate within 12 months of the passage of this act.

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