APPROVED CHAPTER
MAY 2, 2022 677
BY GOVERNOR PUBLIC LAW
STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO
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H.P. 127 - L.D. 174
An Act To Implement Maine's Roadmap to End Hunger by 2030
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 7 MRSA §2, sub-§6 is enacted to read:
6. Strategic plan to end hunger. Act as the lead among departments and agencies of
State Government to implement a strategic plan to end hunger in the State by 2030. The
Office of Policy Innovation and the Future, established in Title 5, section 3102, shall
provide staffing services to the commissioner as necessary for purposes of this subsection.
Strategies must include:
A. Building infrastructure and capacity necessary within and outside State
Government to coordinate implementation of the plan to end hunger in the State;
B. Ensuring consistent, easy and equitable access to healthy and culturally appropriate
food;
C. Promoting, supporting and enabling economic security and opportunity for all
households in the State;
D. Focusing on collective responsibility to amplify the voices of persons experiencing
food insecurity; and
E. Closing the equity gap in household food insecurity by addressing underlying
structural inequities.
The commissioner shall establish an advisory committee to guide the implementation of
the strategic plan under this subsection to end hunger in the State. The advisory committee
must be composed of members with expertise relevant to the strategic plan to end hunger
in the State, including, but not limited to, expertise related to economic development,
employment, housing, children’s issues, health care, education, transportation, emergency
food and the social safety net as well as expertise that derives from lived experience of
poverty and food insecurity. At least 1/3 of the members, or 3 members, whichever is
greater, of the advisory committee must be persons with lived experience of food insecurity
or generational poverty. The advisory committee shall submit a report to the joint standing
committees of the Legislature having jurisdiction over agricultural matters, health and
human services matters, labor and housing matters, transportation matters and economic
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and community development matters no later than January 1st of each year until 2030
regarding activities and progress made toward ending hunger in the State by 2030. The
joint standing committees may each submit a bill to the Legislature each year relating to
the subject matter of the report.
Sec. 2. Strategic plan to end hunger by 2030. The Office of Policy Innovation
and the Future established by the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 3102 shall
coordinate the implementation of the strategies to build infrastructure and increase capacity
to end hunger in the State as outlined in the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and
Forestry January 2022 report, "Everyone at the Table: Maine's Roadmap to End Hunger by
2030."
Sec. 3. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and
allocations are made.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Office of Policy Innovation and the Future Z135
Initiative: Appropriates funding for one Public Service Coordinator II position and related
All Other costs to support the coordination, communications and activities of the strategic
plan to end hunger in the State by 2030.
GENERAL FUND 2021-22 2022-23
POSITIONS - LEGISLATIVE COUNT 0.000 1.000
Personal Services $0 $125,885
All Other $0 $5,000
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GENERAL FUND TOTAL $0 $130,885
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