Enhancing Law Enforcement Resources Act of 2018

Enhancing Law Enforcement Resources Act of 2018

This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to allow state agencies administering the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) to disclose a household member's address, Social Security number, and photograph to a law enforcement officer who provides the member's household electronic benefit transfer card number to locate or apprehend the member for specified law enforcement purposes and as an official duty.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5740 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5740

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to permit the State agency 
to disclose personal identifying information of a household member to a 
law enforcement officer who provides such member's household electronic 
   benefit transfer card number for the purpose of apprehending such 
 member who is fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody or confinement 
                     after conviction, for a crime.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 9, 2018

Mr. Joyce of Ohio 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 permit the State agency 
to disclose personal identifying information of a household member to a 
law enforcement officer who provides such member's household electronic 
   benefit transfer card number for the purpose of apprehending such 
 member who is fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody or confinement 
                     after conviction, for a crime.

    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 ``Enhancing Law Enforcement Resources 
Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT.

    Section 11(e)(8)(E) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2020(e)(8)(E)) is amended by inserting ``(or the number of the member's 
household electronic benefit transfer card)'' after ``the member'' the 
first place it appears.
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