The Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act (Pub.L. 104–210, 110 Stat. 3011, enacted October 1, 1996) was created to encourage food donation to nonprofits by minimizing liability, in accordance with the Model Good Samaritan Food Donation Act. Signed into law by President Bill Clinton, this law, named after Rep. Bill Emerson (who encouraged the proposal but died before it was passed), makes it easier to donate food by allowing donor liability only in cases of gross negligence.
Though a helpful and visionary law, little has been done to promote or implement the law and generally it has languished in obscurity.
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