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<dc:title>116 HR 3142 IH: SNAP Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2019</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2019-06-05</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code><congress display="yes">116th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">1st Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 3142</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber><action display="yes"><action-date date="20190605">June 5, 2019</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="R000575">Mr. Rogers of Alabama</sponsor> (for himself and <cosponsor name-id="C001097">Mr. Cárdenas</cosponsor>) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HAG00">Committee on Agriculture</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make certain multivitamin-mineral dietary
			 supplements eligible for purchase with supplemental nutrition assistance
			 program benefits, and for other purposes.</official-title></form>
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 <section id="HDB649246D84545DCA0C016FBB656613B" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>SNAP Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2019</short-title></quote>.</text> </section><section id="H78CA295F60FB45BF951B6A705C48FD98"><enum>2.</enum><header>Multivitamin-mineral dietary supplements</header> <subsection id="H31F9EA276CF147FB868B10EA88D9E7D3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/7/2012">7 U.S.C. 2012</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
 <paragraph id="H69D61EF64954423D879582589BCB814E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (k)—</text> <subparagraph id="H8010BBE173FF4B4EB6107935294F3CD2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>shelters, and (9) in</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
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 <text>shelters;</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6875587A668545809D13E3DD5F07779E"><enum>(9)</enum><text>in</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD06002C4D6874E749E9AB95BDDDAE35F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>arrangement, (8) in</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
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 <text>arrangement;</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H289CB035D28F4FCEA04A5E334DD7CDBC"><enum>(8)</enum><text>in</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDED45674397E4EC59A678BD8150B21B2"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking <quote>subsistence, (7) in</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
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 <text>subsistence;</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDA68DF1ED9C44A0EAEB354366E83810A"><enum>(7)</enum><text>in</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HAE39F3169EBE42DABBA7C02D17BB1BDE"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by striking <quote>programs, (6) in</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
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 <text>programs;</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7650C19774AE495686627824A1032FB1"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2771DBC2D3F34A4289F57107792BB10B"><enum>(E)</enum><text>by striking <quote>section 9(h), (5) in</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
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 <text>section 9(h);</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H614A011956ED48D1982AE439BCC670AF"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H29212D4485884DB29F7EB9C01D3984D8"><enum>(F)</enum><text>by striking <quote>elderly, (4) in</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
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 <text>elderly;</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2A140F06BD974CDB8B587947D7F3C972"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5010AB3952E2427CB49C4F666483126B"><enum>(G)</enum><text>by striking <quote>household, (3) in</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
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 <text>household;</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H841380F64AC34145B1CD46E072A132B6"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB3D91075255545B88B37D96B6CB184E1"><enum>(H)</enum><text>by striking <quote>product, (2) seeds</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
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 <text>product;</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1F4076E533B64DEC87F954627267557E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>seeds</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H07C407F4A5584BACB46A3FB5B3A78CDC"><enum>(I)</enum><text>by striking the subsection designation and all that follows through <quote>(1) any food</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
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 <subsection id="H01F32510D7954A46A6B142069AEAE8B3"><enum>(k)</enum><header>Food</header><text>The term <quote>food</quote> means—</text> <paragraph id="H4E525EABC72347D38F7EA93D8D225747"><enum>(1)</enum><text>any food</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
 </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H19214685CB214B5B856919675C6D9AA0"><enum>(J)</enum><text>in paragraph (1) (as so amended)—</text> <clause id="H87F69253D61946A19555E33AC25E64F8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>clauses</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraphs</quote>; and</text>
 </clause><clause id="HD42CA1D0E1E7448B9EBB456C724C053E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>of this subsection</quote>;</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9835123CF75748CAB4AF48724101AF10"><enum>(K)</enum><text>in paragraph (9) (as so amended), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text>
 </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE2CF97C719F84E0BA579F286DBECF7CD"><enum>(L)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H570C2B7ECA314C63AF480E305071FA5A" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HB53349F62FEA41E385EE92DF996C728F"><enum>(10)</enum><text>a multivitamin-mineral dietary supplement for home consumption.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; </after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
 </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H3F9029B0383349D7A7BB3255F96AE6D3"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsections (n) through (v) as subsections (o) through (w), respectively;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H9D7BFF57658B41918E84DC2BAB8C0327"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after subsection (m) the following:</text>
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 <subsection id="H2E2E6EDDA8FF4E32928E66CF1B75588B"><enum>(n)</enum><header>Multivitamin-Mineral dietary supplement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>multivitamin-mineral dietary supplement</quote> means a substance that—</text> <paragraph id="HCB6666E727F34869BE1E30EA8BBF53A5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>provides at least half of the vitamins and minerals—</text>
 <subparagraph id="HE5A9519DEA8347399C5639E1A2AFC59F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>for which the National Academy of Medicine establishes dietary reference intakes; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCA522FAF48EF410594611AF17C7C676B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>at 50 percent or more of the daily value for the intended life stage per daily serving, as determined by the Food and Drug Administration; and</text>
 </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC719C4D400CD4459B22B4CD6739C0387"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">does not exceed the tolerable upper intake levels for those nutrients for which an established tolerable upper intake level is determined by the National Academy of Medicine.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
 </paragraph><paragraph id="H3026265B598D434CB82F7B106EC3FECD"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (r) (as so redesignated)—</text> <subparagraph id="H5F91D516A04349C381BFE8B109C49211"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking the subsection designation and all that follows through <quote>Except</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
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							<subsection id="H95F1CEDEFCC64D45BE30AEA66B35BA6B"><enum>(r)</enum><header>Staple foods</header>
 <paragraph id="H4BBB3BE7891A4E7C8C8EAE8D3BA56F79"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>; </after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3DEFC64A722549EDA66BB412F6BC7575"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (1) (as so amended), by indenting subparagraphs (A) through (D) appropriately; and</text>
 </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFF9343D155F241CFB19D65C4440E2F1B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)—</text> <clause id="H295C4242D69A480D886E08DA9D519B35"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking the paragraph designation and all that follows through <quote>do not</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
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 <paragraph id="HEB1885C7ED9845A5927D47E91B237A8A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exclusions</header><text>The term <quote>staple foods</quote> does not</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </clause><clause id="H747528066F284964A91A3D58AC5A4226"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and spices</quote> and inserting <quote>spices, and multivitamin-mineral dietary supplements</quote>.</text>
						</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7E0F36CA0877461DBF8B78E34E362EA2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header>
 <paragraph id="HA72EA322671C48A58C381C92D4653936"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Section 10 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/7/2019">7 U.S.C. 2019</external-xref>) is amended in the first sentence by striking <quote>section 3(o)(4)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 3(p)(4)</quote>.</text>
 </paragraph><paragraph id="H35DE4B4332DB4C68B1B12D79BEDD137B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 11 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/7/2020">7 U.S.C. 2020</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H26FC9F302FE24443A3CEDB5D84C16D8C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(2), by striking <quote>section 3(s)(1)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 3(t)(1)</quote>;</text>
 </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA1F27B5045C84AE4A9F0503CDC5D1DCB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text> <clause id="H69003D0F5A3244018BBE66241924B6B4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>section 3(s)(1)</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>section 3(t)(1)</quote>; and</text>
 </clause><clause id="H99CF9BF2E60E48F0A291D90678ECDC20"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>section 3(s)(2)</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>section 3(t)(2)</quote>; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H89E3C70FA099446090627F1DF438493B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subsection (e)(17), by striking <quote>described in section 3(s)(1)</quote>.</text>
 </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H85732646CEB64FBBA5DF0F664A6CD0F3"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Section 16(c)(1)(A)(ii)(II) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/7/2025">7 U.S.C. 2025(c)(1)(A)(ii)(II)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>section 3(u)(4)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 3(v)(4)</quote>.</text>
 </paragraph><paragraph id="H5E9C89D993F44882AA52462F2AAA0CBA"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Section 19(a)(2)(A)(ii) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/7/2028">7 U.S.C. 2028(a)(2)(A)(ii)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>section 3(u)(4)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 3(v)(4)</quote>.</text>
 </paragraph><paragraph id="H631C7C20F3D449B18104BD2DB73736C0"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Section 27(a)(2) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/7/2036">7 U.S.C. 2036(a)(2)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>section 3(u)(4)</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>section 3(v)(4)</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HA44D91D94544441DB411C28875D3B53D"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Section 404 of title IV of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/604">42 U.S.C. 604</external-xref>) is amended in each of subsections (i) and (j) by striking <quote>section 3(l) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008</quote> and inserting <quote>section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/7/2012">7 U.S.C. 2012</external-xref>)</quote>.</text>
 </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H08F077E6A85D4D0FB83B761846F0D432"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Section 408(a)(12)(B)(i) of title IV of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/608">42 U.S.C. 608(a)(12)(B)(i)</external-xref>) is amended in the second sentence by striking <quote>(within</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting <quote>(as defined in section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/7/2012">7 U.S.C. 2012</external-xref>)).</quote>.</text>
 </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HA4AB1FF788D54F1F805837A6BF2289CC"><enum>(8)</enum><text>Section 454(29) of title IV of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/654">42 U.S.C. 654(29)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>section 3(h) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/7/2012">7 U.S.C. 2012(h)</external-xref>)</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/7/2012">7 U.S.C. 2012</external-xref>)</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section></legis-body></bill> 

