[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 57 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 57

  To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to prevent the illegal 
 trafficking of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits by 
requiring all program beneficiaries to show valid photo identification 
              when purchasing items with program benefits.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 7, 2015

  Mr. Vitter introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to prevent the illegal 
 trafficking of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits by 
requiring all program beneficiaries to show valid photo identification 
              when purchasing items with program 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 ``Food Stamp Fraud Prevention and 
Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. PHOTO IDENTIFICATION REQUIREMENT.

    (a) Disqualification for Using Another EBT Card.--Section 6 of the 
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2015) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
    ``(t) Disqualification for Using Another EBT Card.--Subject to any 
requirements established by the Secretary, any person who has been 
found by a State or Federal court or administrative agency in a hearing 
under subsection (b) to have intentionally used an EBT card that was 
issued to a household of which the person is not a member shall be 
ineligible for benefits under this Act.''.
    (b) Optional Photographic Identification.--Section 7(h)(9) of the 
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2016(h)(9)) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) Listed beneficiaries.--
                            ``(i) In general.--If a State agency elects 
                        not to require that an EBT card contain a 
                        photograph described in subparagraph (A), the 
                        State agency shall list on the EBT card the 
                        name of each member of the household who may 
                        use the card.
                            ``(ii) Photographic identification 
                        required.--A member of a household with an EBT 
                        card issued by a State agency described in 
                        clause (i) shall be required to show 
                        photographic identification at the point of 
                        sale when using the EBT card.''.
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