[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3697 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3697

 To exempt from the Regulation E requirements, State administration of 
the food stamp program through electronic benefit transfer systems that 
           provide for distribution of means-tested benefits.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 20, 1996

Mr. Roberts (for himself, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Bryant of Tennessee, and Mr. 
   Condit) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To exempt from the Regulation E requirements, State administration of 
the food stamp program through electronic benefit transfer systems that 
           provide for distribution of means-tested benefits.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Encouragement of Electronic Benefit 
Transfer Systems Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT.

    Section 7(i) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2016(i)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(7) Encourage electronic benefit transfer systems.--
            ``(A) In general.--The disclosures, protections, 
        responsibilities, and remedies established under section 904 of 
        the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (15 U.S.C. 1693b), and any 
        regulation or order issued by the Board of Governors of the 
        Federal Reserve System in accordance with such Act, shall not 
        apply to benefits under this Act delivered through any 
        electronic benefit transfer system.
            ``(B) Replacement of benefits.--Any regulation issued by 
        the Secretary regarding the replacement of benefits under this 
        Act, and liability for replacement of benefits under this Act, 
        under an electronic benefit transfer system shall be similar to 
        the regulations in effect for a paper food stamp issuance 
        system.
            ``(C) Definition of electronic benefit transfer system.--As 
        used in this paragraph, the term `electronic benefit transfer 
        system' means a system under which a governmental entity 
        distributes benefits determined under this Act, or other 
        benefits or payments, by establishing accounts to be accessed 
        electronically by recipients of the benefits, including through 
        the use of an automated teller machine, a point-of-sale 
        terminal, or an intelligent benefit card.''.
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