A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require consideration of the assets of a household for broad-based categorical eligibility for the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

3.0.0 2359 2022-11-01T13:50:14Z 2022-11-01T13:50:14Z Senate S 2019-07-31 116 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-07-31T16:37:39Z 2019-07-31 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2019-07-31 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000393 Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] John Kennedy R LA Neely N Agriculture and Food Bank accounts, deposits, capital Employee benefits and pensions Financial services and investments Food assistance and relief Agriculture and Food

00 2019-07-31 Introduced in Senate 2019-11-07T15:57:06Z This bill revises eligibility requirements under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) to require certain household assets (e.g., available cash, stock, savings bonds, mutual funds) to be considered when making a categorical eligibility determination for SNAP benefits.

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A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require consideration of the assets of a household for broad-based categorical eligibility for the supplemental nutrition assistance program. Display Title A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require consideration of the assets of a household for broad-based categorical eligibility for the supplemental nutrition assistance program. Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require consideration of the assets of a household for broad-based categorical eligibility for the supplemental nutrition assistance program. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s2359is/xml/BILLS-116s2359is.xml 2019-07-31 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.