[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4103 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4103

   To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make permanent the 
    moratorium on SNAP benefit transaction fees, and other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 14, 2023

Ms. Brown (for herself, Ms. Jacobs, and Mr. Blumenauer) 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 make permanent the 
    moratorium on SNAP benefit transaction fees, and other purposes.

    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 ``Ensuring Fee-Free Benefit 
Transactions Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 7 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et 
seq.) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (d) by inserting ``including completeness 
        of fraud protection and prevention tools and coverage of 
        infrastructure cost'' before the period at the end,
            (2) in subsection (f)(5)(B)(ii) by inserting ``and require 
        State agencies to review existing technology and contract 
        requirements during each contracting period to ensure the EBT 
        technology reflects commercial standards to ensure security of 
        benefits'' before the period at the end, and
            (3) in subsection (h)(13)(B)--
                    (A) by striking ``Effective through fiscal year 
                2023, neither'' and inserting ``Neither'', and
                    (B) by inserting ``, for costs to implement 
                subsections (d) and (f)(5)(B) of section 7, or for 
                other costs associated with updating the EBT processing 
                infrastructure'' before the period at the end.

SEC. 3. APPLICATION OF AMENDMENTS.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall be applied to supersede the 
provisions of title IV of division HH of the Consolidation 
Appropriations Act, 2023 or any agency action taken under the authority 
of such provisions.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect 
October 1, 2023.
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