[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 284 Reference Change Senate (RCS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 284

To amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to permit a State agency to require 
households residing on reservations to file periodic reports of income 
and household circumstances, and to remove the requirement that a State 
  agency establish a procedure for staggered issuance of coupons for 
 eligible households residing on reservations, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             February 3 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

 Mr. Pressler introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs

                March 9 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

    Committee discharged; referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 
                        Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to permit a State agency to require 
households residing on reservations to file periodic reports of income 
and household circumstances, and to remove the requirement that a State 
  agency establish a procedure for staggered issuance of coupons for 
 eligible households residing on reservations, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. REPORTING AND STAGGERED ISSUANCE FOR HOUSEHOLDS ON 
              RESERVATIONS.

    (a) Budgeting and Monthly Reporting on Reservations.--Section 
6(c)(1)(A) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2015(c)(1)(A)) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking clause (ii); and
            (2) by redesignating clauses (iii) and (iv) as clauses (ii) 
        and (iii), respectively.
    (b) Staggered Issuances on Reservations.--Section 7(h)(1) of such 
Act (7 U.S.C. 2016(h)(1)) is amended by striking the second sentence.
    (c) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Subtitle A of title IX of the Food, Agriculture, 
        Conservation, and Trade Act Amendments of 1991 (Public Law 102-
        237) is amended by repealing section 908.
            (2) Section 5(f)(2)(C) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 
        U.S.C. 2014(f)(2)(C)) is amended by striking ``(iii), and 
        (iv)'' and inserting ``and (iii)''.

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