[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5423 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5423

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide an incentive for 
   households participating in the supplemental nutrition assistance 
 program to purchase certain nutritious fruits and vegetables that are 
                       beneficial to good health.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 9, 2016

Mr. Cartwright (for himself, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Cardenas, Ms. Clark of 
Massachusetts, Mr. Conyers, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Deutch, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. 
   Hastings, Mr. Langevin, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Moore, Ms. 
 Norton, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Polis, Mr. Rangel, Ms. Slaughter, 
Mr. Takano, Mr. Tonko, Ms. Esty, Ms. Meng, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Crowley, and 
Mrs. Lawrence) 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 provide an incentive for 
   households participating in the supplemental nutrition assistance 
 program to purchase certain nutritious fruits and vegetables that are 
                       beneficial to good health.

    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 Healthy Incentives Act of 
2016''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    (a) Definition.--Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 2012) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (k) by inserting ``, unless the context 
        specifies otherwise,'' after ``means'';
            (2) by redesignating subsections (u) and (v) as subsections 
        (v) and (w), respectively; and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (t) the following:
    ``(u) `Supplemental fruits and vegetables' means those fruits and 
vegetables containing nutrients that promote the health of the 
population served by the supplemental nutrition assistance program, as 
determined by the Secretary by rule.''.
    (b) Increase in Value of Allotment.--Section 8 of the Food and 
Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2017) is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
    ``(m) The value of an allotment, determined under this section 
without regard to this subsection and issued to a household for a 
month, shall be increased by 30 percent of the cost of supplemental 
fruits and vegetables purchased by such household during such month, 
but not to exceed an aggregate monthly amount determined by the 
Secretary on the basis of household size.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on 
October 1, 2016.
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