[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 27, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S4686]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3343. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 3224 proposed by Mr. Roberts (for himself and Ms. 
Stabenow) to the bill H.R. 2, to provide for the reform and 
continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of 
Agriculture through fiscal year 2023, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle A of title IV, add the following:

     SEC. 41__. CATEGORICAL ELIGIBILITY.

       (a) In General.--Section 5 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 
     2008 (7 U.S.C. 2014) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) in the fourth sentence, by striking ``Assistance'' and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(4) Applications for participation.--Assistance'';
       (B) in the second sentence--
       (i) by striking ``Act, shall be eligible'' and all that 
     follows through ``Except'' in the third sentence and 
     inserting the following: ``Act.
       ``(3) Additional eligibility.--Except'';
       (ii) by striking ``Act, or aid'' and inserting the 
     following: ``Act.
       ``(D) Households in which each member receives aid'';
       (iii) by striking ``supplemental security'' and inserting 
     the following: ``with an income eligibility limit of not 
     greater than 130 percent of the poverty line (as defined in 
     subsection (c)(1)).
       ``(B) Households in which each member is elderly or 
     disabled and receives cash assistance or ongoing and 
     substantial services under a State program funded under part 
     A of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et 
     seq.), with an income eligibility limit of not greater than 
     200 percent of the poverty line (as defined in subsection 
     (c)(1)).
       ``(C) Households in which each member receives supplemental 
     security'';
       (iv) by striking ``households in which each member receives 
     benefits'' and inserting the following: ``the following 
     households shall be eligible to participate in the 
     supplemental nutrition assistance program:
       ``(A) Households in which each member receives cash 
     assistance or ongoing and substantial services''; and
       (v) by striking ``Notwithstanding'' and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(2) Categories of eligibility.--Notwithstanding''; and
       (C) in the first sentence, by striking ``(a) 
     Participation'' and inserting the following:
       ``(a) Eligibility for Participation.--
       ``(1) In general.--Participation''; and
       (2) in subsection (j)--
       (A) by striking ``or who receives benefits'' and inserting 
     ``cash assistance or ongoing and substantial services''; and
       (B) by striking ``the Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) to have'' 
     and inserting ``that Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), with an 
     income eligibility limit of not greater than 130 percent of 
     the poverty line (as defined in subsection (c)(1)), or who is 
     elderly or disabled and receives cash assistance or ongoing 
     and substantial services under a State program funded under 
     that part, with an income eligibility limit of not more than 
     200 percent of the poverty line (as defined in subsection 
     (c)(1)), to have''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
     shall take effect October 1, 2020.
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