SNAP Verify Act of 2014

SNAP Verify Act of 2014 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require a member or representative of a household that receives supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) to present photographic verification when using an electronic benefit card for a SNAP purchase.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4006 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4006

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require households that 
     receive supplemental nutrition assistance benefits to present 
   photographic verification at the time food is purchased with such 
                               benefits.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 6, 2014

  Mr. Salmon (for himself, Mr. Posey, Mr. Fleming, Mr. Kingston, Mr. 
 Cramer, Mr. Fortenberry, Mr. Gosar, Mr. DeSantis, Mr. Schweikert, Mr. 
 Smith of Missouri, Mr. Gingrey of Georgia, and Mr. Franks of Arizona) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                              Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require households that 
     receive supplemental nutrition assistance benefits to present 
   photographic verification at the time food is purchased with such 
                               benefits.

    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 ``SNAP Verify Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. PHOTOGRAPHIC VERIFICATION FOR SNAP TRANSACTIONS.

    Section 11 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2020) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(v) Photographic Verification for SNAP Transactions.--Not later 
than 3 years after the effective date of this subsection, the State 
agency shall require any member of a household, or any representative 
of the household, authorized to use an electronic benefit card to 
present photographic identification at the time such member or such 
representative presents the electronic benefit card to perform a 
transaction.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION OF AMENDMENT.

    (a) Effective Date.--This Act and the amendment made by this Act 
shall take effect on the 1st day of the 1st month that begins not less 
than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Application of Amendment.--The amendment made by this Act shall 
not apply with respect to certification periods that begin before the 
effective date of this Act.
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