Nutrition services; creating the Food is Medicine Act; creating certain incentive for Medicaid contracted entities; providing for certain expansion of nutrition services. Effective date. Emergency.

Title page formatting changed from enrolled format to floor substitute format with new line numbering and layout.

Page headers and footers were reorganized to reflect floor substitute document structure.

All substantive policy provisions regarding Food is Medicine programs, Medicaid nutrition services, and education technical assistance remain identical.

Added co-sponsor names (Pogemiller, Deck, Waldron, Hefner, Ranson, Pittman, and Alonso-Sandoval) to the House sponsors list.

Included official signatures and dates from the Senate, House, Governor, and Secretary of State, finalizing the bill for codification.

Removed draft formatting markers and placeholder signature lines from the Engrossed version.

Added a new subsection D requiring the Health Care Authority and contracted entities to prioritize community-based organizations and local growers when purchasing food for nutrition prescriptions.

Modified the purpose statement in Section 2B to specify that the initiative targets Medicaid members with nutrition-related chronic diseases.

Changed the financial incentive language from improving health outcomes generally to specifically providing coverage for nutrition supports under Medicaid.

Added passage dates and signatures from both the Senate and House of Representatives, indicating the bill has been fully enacted.

Reorganized the bill structure and formatting to reflect its engrossed status with proper legislative markings.