Hot Foods Act of 2023

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3519 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3519

  To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to permit supplemental 
nutrition assistance program benefits to be used to purchase additional 
                          types of food items.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 18, 2023

Ms. Meng (for herself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Garbarino, Ms. Spanberger, 
  Ms. Adams, Mr. Allred, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Carson, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. 
Costa, Mr. Harder of California, Mr. Evans, Ms. Jacobs, Ms. Kuster, Mr. 
   LaLota, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Mr. McGarvey, Mr. McGovern, Mr. 
Nadler, Ms. Norton, Mr. Panetta, Ms. Sanchez, Mr. Smith of Washington, 
   Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Tonko, Ms. Velazquez, and Mrs. Watson 
   Coleman) 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 supplemental 
nutrition assistance program benefits to be used to purchase additional 
                          types of food items.

    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 ``Hot Foods Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. HOT FOOD UNDER SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

    Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (k)(1), by striking ``consumption except 
        alcoholic beverages, tobacco, hot foods or hot food products 
        ready for immediate consumption other than those authorized 
        pursuant to clauses (3), (4), (5), (7), (8), and (9) of this 
        subsection'' and inserting ``consumption, including hot foods 
        or hot food products ready for immediate consumption and 
        excluding alcoholic beverages, tobacco'';
            (2) in subsection (o)(1)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by 
                striking ``and consumption'' and inserting ``or home or 
                immediate consumption''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (A)--
                            (i) by striking the subparagraph 
                        designation and all that follows through 
                        ``offers'' and inserting the following:
                    ``(A)(i) offers'';
                            (ii) in clause (i) (as so designated), by 
                        striking ``or'' at the end and inserting 
                        ``and''; and
                            (iii) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(ii) of which not more than 50 percent of the 
                total gross sales are from hot foods or hot food 
                products ready for immediate consumption; or''; and
            (3) in subsection (q)(2)--
                    (A) by striking ``include accessory'' and inserting 
                the following: ``include--
                    ``(A) accessory'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (A) (as so designated), by 
                striking the period at the end and inserting ``; and''; 
                and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) hot foods or hot food products ready for 
                immediate consumption.''.
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