Oklahoma Food Security Act

These sections create the Oklahoma Food Security Committee and direct the Oklahoma Department of Commerce, in conjunction with the Oklahoma Food Security Committee, to work with public and private partnerships to secure funding to increase the capacity of Oklahoma’s food security initiatives. The stated purposes of the Food Security Committee include, among others, to: coordinate services among federal, state, faith-based and nonprofit organizations; support community food security initiatives in Oklahoma communities and encourage food production on the local level; encourage the use of home and community gardens for food production; support efforts to provide farmers markets with the technology for accepting food stamps; apply for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Programs in Oklahoma; and to eliminate sales tax at farmers’ markets.