SNAP Healthy Incentives Act of 2020

SNAP Healthy Incentives Act of 2020

This bill revises the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) to provide a financial incentive for participants to purchase fruits and vegetables containing nutrients that promote the health of the population served by SNAP.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7899 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7899

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide an incentive for 
   households participating in the supplemental nutrition assistance 
 program to purchase certain nutritious fruits and vegetables that are 
                       beneficial to good health.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 31, 2020

 Mr. Cartwright (for himself, Ms. Moore, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. 
 Cicilline, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Grijalva, Mrs. Watson Coleman, 
Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Norton, Ms. DeLauro, Ms. Kaptur, Ms. 
   McCollum, Mr. Amodei, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Case, Mrs. Hayes, and Ms. 
   Pingree) 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 provide an incentive for 
   households participating in the supplemental nutrition assistance 
 program to purchase certain nutritious fruits and vegetables that are 
                       beneficial to good health.

    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 Healthy Incentives Act of 
2020''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    (a) Definition.--Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 2012) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (k) by inserting ``, unless the context 
        specifies otherwise,'' after ``means'';
            (2) by redesignating subsections (u) and (v) as subsections 
        (v) and (w), respectively; and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (t) the following:
    ``(u) `Supplemental fruits and vegetables' means those fruits and 
vegetables containing nutrients that promote the health of the 
population served by the supplemental nutrition assistance program, as 
determined by the Secretary by rule.''.
    (b) Increase in Value of Allotment.--Section 8 of the Food and 
Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2017) is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
    ``(g) Increase in Value of Allotment.--The value of an allotment, 
determined under this section without regard to this subsection and 
issued to a household for a month, shall be increased by 30 percent of 
the cost of supplemental fruits and vegetables purchased by such 
household during such month, but not to exceed an aggregate monthly 
amount determined by the Secretary on the basis of household size.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on 
October 1, 2020.
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