[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4297 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4297

 To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to treat attendance at an 
  institution of higher education the same as work for the purpose of 
 determining eligibility to participate in the supplemental nutrition 
                          assistance program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 12, 2019

  Mr. Gomez (for himself, Mr. Aguilar, Ms. Bass, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. 
Carbajal, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Castro of Texas, Mr. Cisneros, Mr. Correa, 
 Mr. Costa, Mr. Cox of California, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Ms. 
 DeLauro, Mr. Gallego, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, 
  Ms. Haaland, Mr. Harder of California, Ms. Hill of California, Mr. 
Kennedy, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, Ms. Matsui, 
Mr. McGovern, Ms. Moore, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Ms. Omar, 
Mr. Pallone, Mr. Peterson, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Rouda, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Ms. 
   Schakowsky, Mr. Soto, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Swalwell of California, Mr. 
Takano, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. Vela, Ms. Sanchez, Mrs. Torres 
 of California, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Khanna, and Mr. Lowenthal) 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 treat attendance at an 
  institution of higher education the same as work for the purpose of 
 determining eligibility to participate in the supplemental nutrition 
                          assistance program.

    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 ``Enhance Access To SNAP Act of 2019'' 
or ``EATS Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 6 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2015) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (e)(4) by striking ``employed'' and 
        inserting ``attending an institution of higher education (as 
        defined in section 102 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
        U.S.C. 1002)) or employed, in the aggregate,''; and
            (2) in subsection (o)(2)(A) by striking ``work'' and 
        inserting ``attending an institution of higher education (as 
        defined in section 102 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
        U.S.C. 1002)) or work, in the aggregate,''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act shall take effect on January 2, 2020.
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