3.0.0 1717 2022-11-01T06:32:25Z 2022-11-01T06:32:25Z Senate S 2019-06-05 116 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-06-05T14:15:57Z SNAP Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2019 116 3142 HR 2019-06-24 Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations. Identical bill CRS 2019-06-05 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2019-06-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001184 Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC] Tim Scott R SC N S001191 Sen. Sinema, Kyrsten [D-AZ] Kyrsten Sinema D AZ 2019-06-05 True Agriculture and Food Food assistance and relief Nutrition and diet Agriculture and Food 00 2019-06-05 Introduced in Senate 2019-10-09T19:20:48Z SNAP Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2019

This bill allows Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) benefits to be used to purchase multivitamin-mineral dietary supplements for home consumption.

Specifically, the supplements (1) must provide at least half of the vitamins and minerals for which the National Academy of Medicine establishes dietary reference intakes at 50% or more of the daily value for the intended life stage per daily serving, as determined by the Food and Drug Administration; and (2) may not exceed the tolerable upper intake levels for those nutrients for which an established tolerable upper intake level is determined by the National Academy of Medicine.

The bill amends the definition of "staple food" to exclude multivitamin-mineral dietary supplements.

]]> SNAP Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2019 Display Title SNAP Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced SNAP Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make certain multivitamin-mineral dietary supplements eligible for purchase with supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s1717is/xml/BILLS-116s1717is.xml 2019-06-05 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.