This legislation established the food pantry assistance grant with $500,000 to aid Colorado food pantries and food banks in the purchase of food to meet the needs of their clientele an urgent need due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A secondary purpose of the grant program was to create new market opportunities for Colorado's agricultural producers by requiring that food purchased by a grant recipient using grant money from the grant program must be designated as a Colorado agricultural product.

Colorado law stated that an individual found to have committed an intentional violation of rules attached to a specific public assistance program was barred from participation in all public assistance programs. This legislation amended that to clarify that only participation in the program where the violation occurred was banned and only for a set period of time.