[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4881 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4881

      To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require that 
    supplemental nutrition assistance benefits be used to purchase 
 supplemental foods that are eligible for purchase under section 17 of 
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (commonly known as the WIC program) and 
                       certain additional foods.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 23, 2016

Mr. Roe of Tennessee 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 require that 
    supplemental nutrition assistance benefits be used to purchase 
 supplemental foods that are eligible for purchase under section 17 of 
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (commonly known as the WIC program) and 
                       certain additional foods.

    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 ``Healthy Food Choices Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT.

    Section 3(k) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2012(k)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(k) `Food' means a supplemental food of the kind prescribed by 
the Secretary under section 17(b)(14) of the Child Nutrition Act of 
1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786(b)(14)), except that such term includes--
            ``(1) meat, fish, and poultry;
            ``(2) beans, soups, and immature varieties of legumes (such 
        as those used in canned green peas, green beans, snap beans, 
        yellow beans, and wax beans); and
            ``(3) baked beans with meat (e.g., beans and franks).''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2017.
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