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]
[S. 1635 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1635

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 31, 2013

   Mr. Casey introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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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; 124 
Stat. 3265) 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. BUDGETARY EFFECTS.

    The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying 
with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, shall be determined by 
reference to the latest statement titled ``Budgetary Effects of PAYGO 
Legislation'' for this Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional 
Record by the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, provided that 
such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

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