WIC Improvement Act

WIC Improvement Act

This bill amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to permit certain multivitamin dietary supplements to be purchased under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program. The bill applies to multivitamin dietary supplements that are: (1) labeled in accordance with specified federal regulations; and (2) increase the availability of low-cost, high nutrient alternatives for the population served by WIC.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3529 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3529

To amend the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, 
                and children to cover certain vitamins.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 28, 2017

   Mr. Brat introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, 
                and children to cover certain vitamins.

    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 ``WIC Improvement Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY TO PURCHASE CERTAIN VITAMINS UNDER THE WIC PROGRAM.

    Section 17(b)(14) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
1786(b)(14)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(14) `Supplemental foods' means those 
        foods'' and inserting the following:
            ``(14) Supplemental foods; multivitamin dietary 
        supplements.--
                    ``(A) Supplemental foods.--The term `supplemental 
                foods' means those foods or multivitamin dietary 
                supplements''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) Multivitamin dietary supplement.--The term 
                `multivitamin dietary supplement' means a multivitamin 
                dietary supplement--
                            ``(i) labeled in accordance with part 101 
                        of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (as in 
                        effect on the date of enactment of the WIC 
                        Improvement Act); and
                            ``(ii) that increases the availability of 
                        low-cost, high nutrient alternatives for the 
                        population served by the program authorized by 
                        this section.''.
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