{"id":18912,"date":"2012-01-11T05:39:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T10:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=18912"},"modified":"2012-01-11T05:39:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T10:39:58","slug":"latta-supports-usda-legislation-provision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/01\/11\/latta-supports-usda-legislation-provision\/","title":{"rendered":"Latta supports USDA legislation provision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) announces that a new provision in the Department of Agriculture\u2019s annual spending bill will allow public schools to donate excess food to charities and pantries. The new provision by Representative Frank Wolf (R-Va.) now ensures schools are covered under the Good Samaritan Act, which protects donors who \u00a0give to food banks in good faith from all liability. Previously, many school districts didn\u2019t donate food out of concern that they weren\u2019t covered under the Good Samaritan Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of this clarification, each school and local educational agency participating in the school lunch program may donate any \u00a0food not consumed under the school lunch program to eligible local food banks or charitable organizations,\u201d said Rep. Latta. \u201cThis long overdue, common-sense change will allow schools to boost the inventory of food pantries at a time when donations are greatly needed,\u201d added Latta.<\/p>\n<p>Latta has sent school principals and food bank directors across the Fifth Congressional District a letter informing them of the new change. A copy of the letter can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/latta.house.gov\/UploadedFiles\/foodbankletter.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) announces that a new provision in the Department of Agriculture\u2019s annual spending bill will allow public schools to donate excess food to charities and pantries. The new provision by Representative Frank Wolf (R-Va.) now ensures schools are covered under the Good Samaritan Act, which protects donors who \u00a0give to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 04:55:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}