3.0.0 2723 2023-01-11T13:39:40Z 2023-01-11T13:39:40Z Senate S 2018-04-19 115 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2018-04-19T20:18:47Z 2018-04-19 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2018-04-19 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. N B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ 2018-04-19 True S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT 2018-04-19 True W000817 Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA] Elizabeth Warren D MA A. 2018-04-19 True H001075 Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA] Kamala Harris D CA D. 2018-04-19 True M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. 2018-04-26 False M001169 Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT] Christopher Murphy D CT S. 2018-05-22 False Agriculture and Food Alaska American Samoa Child safety and welfare Food assistance and relief Guam Hawaii Poverty and welfare assistance Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Agriculture and Food 00 2018-04-19 Introduced in Senate 2019-04-15T23:14:47Z SNAP for Kids Act of 2018

This bill modifies the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) to (1) increase benefits for certain small households with children who are 5-17 years old, and (2) require benefits for the households to be calculated using the low-cost food plan.

The "low-cost food plan" is the diet required to feed a family of 4, consisting of a man and a woman 19-50 years old, a child 6-8 years old, and a child 9-11 years old, at a cost that is in the second quartile of food expenditures for those families in the United States.

]]> SNAP for Kids Act of 2018 Display Title SNAP for Kids Act of 2018 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require that supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits for children be calculated with reference to the cost of the low-cost food plan, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced SNAP for Kids Act of 2018 Introduced in Senate 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s2723is/xml/BILLS-115s2723is.xml 2018-04-19 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.