1. Short title This Act may be cited as Farmers’ Market and Food Bank Local Revitalization Act of 2023 . 2. Findings and purposes (a) Findings Congress finds that— (1) food insecurity, epidemic levels of obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and youth osteoporosis are caused by improper nutrition yielded by a lack of nutritious, reliable, and locally available healthy food options; (2) the American Diabetes Association estimated a 41-percent increase in costs of diagnosed diabetes, from a cost of $174,000,000,000 in 2007 to a cost of $245,000,000,000 in 2012, with 62 percent of those costs coming from senior health programs such as Medicare and Medicaid; (3) since sequestration in 2008, there has been no funding increase for the senior farmers’ market nutrition program under section 4402 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 ( 7 U.S.C. 3007 ); (4) (A) from 2008 to 2020, the moderate at-home food cost for a family of 2 individuals aged 51 to 70 years old increased by an average of $70 per month; and (B) funding for the seniors farmers’ market nutrition program has not kept pace with that inflation; (5) according to the Department of Agriculture, the seniors farmers’ market nutrition program is experiencing, across all participating States, territories, and Indian Tribes— (A) a total program funding backlog of $20,065,021; and (B) a seasonal benefit funding backlog of $16,120,741; (6) (A) approximately 1 in 10 United States senior citizens, or approximately 5,146,000 individuals, are forced to live well below the Federal poverty level; and (B) the seniors farmers’ market nutrition program is only able to reach about 725,000 of those individuals due to inadequate funding; (7) since sequestration in 2008, funding for the women, infants, and children farmers’ market nutrition program under section 17(m) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 ( 42 U.S.C. 1786(m) ) has decreased by more than $6,000,000, with no subsequent increase to previous levels