3.0.0 4202 2023-01-11T13:45:39Z 2023-01-11T13:45:39Z Senate S 2020-07-02 116 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-07-02T20:47:36Z Expanding SNAP Options Act of 2020 116 7535 HR 2020-09-03 Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations. Related bill CRS 2020-07-02 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S4228-4229) IntroReferral 2020-07-02 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. N D000622 Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL] Tammy Duckworth D IL 2020-07-02 True B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ 2020-07-21 False R000608 Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV] Jacklyn Rosen D NV 2020-07-29 False S001203 Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] Tina Smith D MN 2020-09-09 False Agriculture and Food Congressional oversight Food assistance and relief Food industry and services Government information and archives Internet and video services Internet, web applications, social media Poverty and welfare assistance Retail and wholesale trades Telephone and wireless communication Agriculture and Food 00 2020-07-02 Introduced in Senate 2021-07-30T15:50:41Z Expanding SNAP Options Act of 2020

This bill revises the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) to make the online redemption of benefits, including the acceptance of Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards, more widely available by requiring the implementation of online SNAP purchasing in every state and providing funding for an online redemption portal and a technical assistance center.

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) must award on a competitive basis one or more contracts to develop an EBT Online Redemption Portal to (1) allow program participants to use online or mobile electronic benefits transactions to purchase program foods from, and make online payments to, authorized program retailers under SNAP; and (2) facilitate food purchase delivery for program participants using such electronic benefits transactions.

The Food and Nutrition Service of USDA must award competitive grants or enter into cooperative agreements with nonprofit entities to establish a SNAP Online Purchasing Technical Assistance Center to provide state agencies, authorized program retailers, and program participants information on and technical assistance with accepting SNAP benefits through online transactions and use of the portal. In providing technical assistance, the center must give priority to entities that are small and limited-resource retailers.

The bill provides funding for both the online redemption portal and the technical assistance center.

USDA must maintain on its website a publicly available listing, organized and searchable by region, locality, and state, of all approved retail food stores accepting benefits from recipients of SNAP, including through online transactions.

]]> Expanding SNAP Options Act of 2020 Display Title Expanding SNAP Options Act of 2020 Short Title(s) as Introduced Expanding SNAP Options Act of 2020 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to expand online benefit redemption options under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s4202is/xml/BILLS-116s4202is.xml 2020-07-02 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S4228-4229) 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.