EXPANSION OF AUTHORITY TO DONATE FOOD TO CHARITABLE NONPROFIT FOOD BANKS

SEC. 324. EXPANSION OF AUTHORITY TO DONATE FOOD TO CHARITABLE NONPROFIT FOOD BANKS (a) Inclusion of Mess Food, Meals Ready-to-Eat, and Other Food.— Section 2485 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking out “commissary store” in subsection (a); (2) by striking out subsection (b) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “(b) Food that may be donated under this section is commissary store food, mess food, meals ready-to-eat (MREs), and other food available to the Secretary of a military department that— “(1) is certified as edible by appropriate food inspection technicians; “(2) would otherwise be destroyed as unusable; and “(3) in the case of commissary store food, is unmarketable and unsaleable.”; and (3) by striking out “A donation” in subsection (c) and inserting in lieu thereof “In the case of commissary store food, a donation”. (b) Clerical Amendments.— (1) The heading of such section is amended to read as follows: 104 STAT. 1531 “§ 2485. Donation of unusable food: commissary stores and other activities”. (2) The item relating to such section in the table of sections at the beginning of chapter 147 of such title is amended to read as follows: “2485. Donation of unusable food: commissary stores and other activities.”.