[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9472 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9472

  To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to prohibit the use of 
 supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to purchase sugary 
                               beverages.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 8, 2022

 Mr. Grothman 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 prohibit the use of 
 supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to purchase sugary 
                               beverages.

    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 Back to Health Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (k) by inserting ``sugary beverages,'' 
        after ``alcoholic beverages,'', and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (r) the following:
    ``(r-1) `Sugary beverage' means a beverage that contains brown 
sugar, corn sweetener, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, glucose, high-
fructose corn syrup, honey, lactose, malt syrup, maltose, molasses, raw 
sugar, and sucrose, aspartame, Splenda, acesulfame potassium, stevia, 
or any similar substance as determined by the Secretary.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATES.

    (a) Effective Date.--Except as provided in subsection (b), this Act 
and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the date of 
the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Effective Date of Amendments.--The amendments made by this Act 
shall take effect 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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