[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 889 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 889

To exclude from income amounts received under part A of title IV of the 
   Social Security Act for the purposes of determining the amount of 
       benefits to be provided under the Food Stamp Act of 1977.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 16, 1993

  Mr. Frank of Massachusetts introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To exclude from income amounts received under part A of title IV of the 
   Social Security Act for the purposes of determining the amount of 
       benefits to be provided under the Food Stamp Act of 1977.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FOOD STAMPS.

    Section 5(e) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2014(e)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``Households 
shall also be entitled to a deduction for the amount, if any, of 
benefits received under a State plan approved under part A of title IV 
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.).''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by this Act shall become effective 60 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.

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