[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3233 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3233

  To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to exclude the value of 
 vehicles used for household transportation, or to obtain or continue 
   employment, from the resource limitation applicable to determine 
       eligibility to receive supplemental nutrition assistance.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 14, 2011

  Mr. Peters (for himself, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Israel, Mr. Kildee, Mr. 
 Dingell, Mr. Ellison, Ms. Tsongas, Mr. Stark, Ms. Lee of California, 
 Mr. Olver, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Levin, Mr. Moran, Mr. Carson 
   of Indiana, Mr. Deutch, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Kaptur, Ms. 
 Schakowsky, Mr. Watt, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Boswell, Mr. 
     Connolly of Virginia, Ms. DeLauro, Ms. Edwards, Mr. Holt, Mr. 
   Blumenauer, Mr. Tonko, Ms. Pingree of Maine, Ms. Richardson, Mr. 
 Schiff, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Welch, Ms. Woolsey, 
Mr. Cohen, Mr. Perlmutter, Mr. Carnahan, and Mr. Lujan) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to exclude the value of 
 vehicles used for household transportation, or to obtain or continue 
   employment, from the resource limitation applicable to determine 
       eligibility to receive supplemental nutrition assistance.

    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 ``Eliminate Auto Test (EAT) Act of 
2011''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 5(g)(2) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2014(g)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B)--
                    (A) in clause (iii) by adding ``and'' at the end,
                    (B) by striking clause (iv), and
                    (C) by redesignating clause (v) as clause (iv), and
            (2) in subparagraph (C)--
                    (A) in clause (ii) by striking ``or'' at the end,
                    (B) in clause (iii) by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``, or'', and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iv) used for household transportation or 
                        to obtain or continue employment.''.
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