3.0.0 984 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z Senate S S 2023-03-27 118 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-03-27T20:40:47Z 118 2424 HR 2023-03-30 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Related bill CRS 2023-03-27 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2023-03-27 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. N M001198 Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS] Roger Marshall R KS 2023-03-27 True P000145 Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA] Alex Padilla D CA 2024-11-12 False Agriculture and Food Agriculture and Food 2023-04-13T12:30:24Z

00 2023-03-27 Introduced in Senate 2024-03-01T15:21:12Z <p><b>More Options to Develop and Enhance Remote Nutrition in WIC Act of 2023 or the MODERN WIC Act of 2023</b></p> <p> This bill permanently allows individuals to remotely certify their eligibility for, and receive benefits through, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). </p> <p>Specifically, the bill allows an individual seeking a WIC certification, recertification, or a nutritional risk evaluation to do so by phone or through video teleconference, in addition to the in-person option. The bill also allows states to provide benefits on WIC electronic benefit transfer cards through mail or remote issuance instead of requiring participants to pick up or reload benefits in person at a WIC office. </p> <p>Further, the Department of Agriculture must report to Congress about the use of remote technologies and other digital tools in the WIC program. </p> <p>Under current law, individuals are generally required to be physically present to certify their WIC eligibility and receive benefits, with exceptions. The Food and Nutrition Service has temporarily waived these requirements and allowed remote certification and benefits using authorities that were originally provided by laws that were enacted to address the COVID-19 pandemic. </p>

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