[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6239 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6239

 To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to prevent the payment of 
cash to recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance for the return 
of empty bottles and cans used to contain food purchased with benefits 
                        provided under such Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 31, 2012

    Mr. Graves of Missouri 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 prevent the payment of 
cash to recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance for the return 
of empty bottles and cans used to contain food purchased with benefits 
                        provided under such Act.

    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 ``SNAP Fraud Prevention Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 3(k)(1) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2012(k)(1)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and hot foods'' and inserting ``hot 
        foods'', and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
``and any deposit fee in excess of amount of the State fee 
reimbursement (if any) required to purchase any food or food product 
contained in a returnable bottle or can, regardless of whether such fee 
is included in the shelf price posted for such food or food product,''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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