Extend Not Cut SNAP Benefits Act

Extend Not Cut SNAP Benefits Act - Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to extend through FY2014 the benefit calculation of 113.6 % of the June 2008 value of the thrifty food plan for the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) as well as the consolidated block grants for Puerto Rico and American Samoa.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3353 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3353

 To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to extend 
   the period during which supplemental nutrition assistance program 
                  benefits are temporarily increased.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 28, 2013

   Mr. Conyers (for himself, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Huffman, Mr. 
Ellison, Mr. Cartwright, Ms. Waters, Ms. Clarke, Ms. Shea-Porter, Mrs. 
Napolitano, Mr. Serrano, Ms. Pingree of Maine, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Capuano, 
 Ms. Bordallo, Ms. Kuster, Mr. Takano, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Langevin, Mr. 
  Holt, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Tierney, Ms. Brown of Florida, Mr. Rangel, Mr. 
Cleaver, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. DeLauro, Ms. Moore, 
 Mr. Honda, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, 
    Ms. Lofgren, Ms. Linda T. Sanchez of California, Ms. Fudge, Ms. 
Slaughter, and Mr. McDermott) introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to extend 
   the period during which supplemental nutrition assistance program 
                  benefits are temporarily increased.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Extend Not Cut SNAP Benefits Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY INCREASE IN SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION 
              ASSISTANCE BENEFITS.

    Section 101(a) of title I of division A of the American Recovery 
and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5; 123 Stat. 120) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1) by striking ``section 3(o)'' and 
        inserting ``section 3(u)'', and
            (2) in paragraph (2) by striking ``2013'' and inserting 
        ``2014''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on 
September 30, 2013.
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