{"content":[{"text":"PUBLIC LAW 104–210—OCT. 1, 1996","bbox":{"left":0.662909,"top":0.043845,"width":0.25478200000000006,"height":0.015613999999999996}},{"text":"The Federal Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act","bbox":{"left":0.213366,"top":0.073636,"width":0.5727450000000001,"height":0.020864000000000008}},{"text":"On October 1, 1996, President Clinton signed this act to encourage donations of food and \n grocery products to non-profit organizations for distribution to needy individuals. This law:","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.125859,"width":0.777827,"height":0.038242}},{"text":" \n ","bbox":{"left":0.111804,"top":0.180247,"width":0.009019,"height":0.037047}},{"text":"Protects donors from liability when food is donated to a non-profit organization; \n Protects donors and donees from civil and criminal liability should the product donated in \n good faith later cause harm to the needy recipient; \n Standardizes donor liability exposure. You or your legal counsel no longer have to \n investigate liability laws in 50 states; and \n Sets a floor of “gross negligence” or international misconduct for persons who donate \n grocery products. According to the new law, gross negligence is defined as “voluntary \n and conscious conduct by a person with knowledge (at the time of conduct) that the \n conducts is likely to be harmful to the health or well-being of another person.”","bbox":{"left":0.141216,"top":0.179192,"width":0.776496,"height":0.16328}},{"text":"","bbox":{"left":0.111804,"top":0.234641,"width":0.009019,"height":0.018562000000000023}},{"text":"","bbox":{"left":0.111804,"top":0.270398,"width":0.009019,"height":0.018562000000000023}},{"text":"The text of the bill itself follows:","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.356503,"width":0.271098,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"The Bill Emerson Food Donation Act \n One Hundred Fourth Congress of the United States of America \n At the Second Session","bbox":{"left":0.091216,"top":0.391427,"width":0.5458850000000001,"height":0.055591}},{"text":"Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, \n thousand nine hundred and ninety-six.","bbox":{"left":0.091216,"top":0.461048,"width":0.547412,"height":0.038242}},{"text":"the","bbox":{"left":0.649039,"top":0.461048,"width":0.02735299999999996,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"third","bbox":{"left":0.686647,"top":0.461048,"width":0.038136999999999976,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"day of","bbox":{"left":0.735216,"top":0.461048,"width":0.058136999999999994,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"January, one","bbox":{"left":0.803941,"top":0.461048,"width":0.1182359999999999,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"An Act","bbox":{"left":0.475409,"top":0.513422,"width":0.06294099999999997,"height":0.020863999999999994}},{"text":"To encourage the donation of food and grocery products to nonprofit organizations for \n distribution to needy individuals by giving the Model Good Samaritan Food Donation Act the full \n force and effect of law.","bbox":{"left":0.091216,"top":0.548194,"width":0.831921,"height":0.05566700000000002}},{"text":"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in \n Congress assembled,","bbox":{"left":0.091216,"top":0.617891,"width":0.831219,"height":0.03824300000000003}},{"text":"Section I. CONVERSION TO PERMANENT LAW OF MODEL GOOD SAMARITAN FOOD \n DONATION ACT AND TRANSFER OF THAT ACT TO CHILD NUTIRITION ACT OF 1966.","bbox":{"left":0.091216,"top":0.67024,"width":0.8317019999999999,"height":0.0382880000000001}},{"text":"a)","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.722475,"width":0.017509999999999998,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"Conversion to Permanent Law, -- Title IV of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 \n is amended – \n 1. by striking the title heading and sections 401 and 403 (42 U.S.C. 12671 and \n 12673); and \n 2. in section 402 (42 U.S.C. 12672) –","bbox":{"left":0.111804,"top":0.722475,"width":0.810572,"height":0.09051500000000001}},{"text":"(A) in the section heading, by striking “MODEL” and inserting “BILL EMERSON”","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.82702,"width":0.6890459999999999,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"(B) in subsection (a) by striking “Good Samaritan” and inserting “Bill Emerson Good Samaritan:”","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.861864,"width":0.828392,"height":0.020818000000000003}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}