Timely Review of SNAP Online Retailer Applications Act of 2023

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6632 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6632

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require the Secretary of 
  Agriculture to make timely decisions on applications of retail food 
  stores to accept benefits from recipients of supplemental nutrition 
    assistance through on-line transactions, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 6, 2023

     Mr. Lieu (for himself, Mr. Payne, and Mr. Garcia of Illinois) 
 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 require the Secretary of 
  Agriculture to make timely decisions on applications of retail food 
  stores to accept benefits from recipients of supplemental nutrition 
    assistance through on-line transactions, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Timely Review of SNAP Online 
Retailer Applications Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. DEADLINE FOR DECISIONS ON APPLICATIONS TO ACCEPT BENEFITS 
              THROUGH ON-LINE TRANSACTIONS.

    Section 7(k) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2016(k)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Timely review of applications.--
                    ``(A) In general.--In implementing paragraph (1), 
                the Secretary, to the maximum extent practicable, shall 
                make a determination of approval or non-approval of an 
                application of a retail food store to accept benefits 
                from recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance 
                through on-line transactions not later than 180 days 
                after the Secretary receives that application.
                    ``(B) Notification of congress.--If the Secretary 
                is not able to make a determination described in 
                subparagraph (A) by the deadline described in that 
                subparagraph, the Secretary shall submit to the 
                Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of 
                the Senate and the Committee on Agriculture of the 
                House of Representatives a written notification that 
                includes an explanation of the reasons why the 
                Secretary was not able to make the determination by the 
                applicable deadline.''.
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