The Colorado Food Systems Advisory Council (COFSAC) was scheduled to sunset on September 1, 2023 and the bill extended the sunset date until September 1, 2030.

This bill will improved the capacity of existing small, local retailers to store and sell nutritious food and improve access, lower prices, and reduce food insecurity, particularly for Colorado families most at risk, while keeping more of the proceeds of economic activity in the local community by: Extending the community food access consortium program and expanding the small business recovery and resilience grant program created in HB22-1380; Providing a tax credit for qualified small food retailers' one-time purchase of equipment for food storage, display, point of sales systems, and equipment not purchased with grant funding; Securing funding for the changes by decoupling the federal and state income tax deduction for business meals for individual and corporate taxpayers.

This legislation focused on landscaping in HOAs to include the ability of residents to vegetable garden in their front yards.

This legislation secured $14 million for the Food Pantry Assistance Grant.

The bill created and the Colorado Commodity Supplemental Food Grant Program to provide grants of money to aid county departments of human or social services, food banks, and food pantries in purchasing and distributing food packages to qualifying low-income older adults in the state. Feeding Colorado is leading this bill with a request of the State to allocate $3 more in administrative funding per box, per person for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, administered by the Colorado Department of Human Services, to fill in gaps that the program faces due to operational costs.

Colorado has an annually recurring program called the Food Pantry Assistance Grant, providing funding to food banks and food pantries for their communities (with a focus on locally cultivated foods) and to purchase necessary equipment to support their charitable food infrastructure and administration. This year’s request authorized level funding of $3 million for the Food Pantry Assistance Grant for five years.

This bill created an additional exception in state fiscal rules that obliges the State Controller to clarify rules that allow an exception for use of state dollars for advance payment for the purchase of state agricultural products allowing organizations such as schools and food banks or food pantries to spend state grant dollars before the agricultural season begins.