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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act of 2013’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of 
this Act is the following: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 
Sec. 101. Preventing payment of cash to recipients of supplemental nutrition 
assistance benefits for the return of empty bottles and cans 
used to contain food purchased with benefits provided under 
the program. 
Sec. 102. Retailers. 
Sec. 103. Enhancing services to elderly and disabled supplemental nutrition as-
sistance program participants. 
Sec. 104. Food distribution program on Indian reservations. 
Sec. 105. Updating program eligibility. 
Sec. 106. Exclusion of medical marijuana from excess medical expense deduc-
tion. 
Sec. 107. Standard utility allowances based on the receipt of energy assistance 
payments. 
Sec. 108. Eligibility disqualifications. 
Sec. 109. Repeal of State work program waiver authority. 
Sec. 110. Ending supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits for lottery 
or gambling winners. 
Sec. 111. Improving security of food assistance. 
Sec. 112. Demonstration projects on acceptance of benefits of mobile trans-
actions. 
Sec. 113. Use of benefits for purchase of community-supported agriculture 
share. 
Sec. 114. Restaurant meals program. 
Sec. 115. Mandating State immigration verification. 
Sec. 116. Data exchange standardization for improved interoperability. 
Sec. 117. Pilot projects to improve Federal-State cooperation in identifying and 
reducing fraud in the supplemental nutrition assistance pro-
gram. 
Sec. 118. Prohibiting Government-sponsored recruitment activities. 
Sec. 119. Repeal of bonus program. 
Sec. 120. Funding of employment and training programs. 
Sec. 121. Monitoring employment and training programs. 
Sec. 122. Cooperation with program research and evaluation. 
Sec. 123. Pilot projects to reduce dependency and increase work effort in the 
supplemental nutrition assistance program. 
Sec. 124. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 125. Limitation on use of block grant to Puerto Rico. 
Sec. 126. Assistance for community food projects. 
Sec. 127. Emergency food assistance. 
Sec. 128. Nutrition education. 
Sec. 129. Retailer trafficking. 
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Sec. 130. Technical and conforming amendments. 
Sec. 131. Tolerance level for excluding small errors. 
Sec. 132. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands pilot program. 
Sec. 133. Annual State report on verification of SNAP participation. 
Sec. 134. Termination of existing agreement. 
Sec. 135. Service of traditional foods in public facilities. 
Sec. 136. Testing applicants for unlawful use of controlled substances. 
Sec. 137. Eligibility disqualifications for certain convicted felons. 
Sec. 138. Expungement of unused supplemental nutrition assistance program 
benefits. 
Sec. 139. Pilot projects to promote work and increase State accountability in 
the supplemental nutrition assistance program. 
Sec. 140. Improved wage verification using the National Directory of New 
Hires. 
Sec. 141. Feasibility study for Indian tribes. 
TITLE II—COMMODITY DISTRIBUTION PROGRAMS 
Sec. 201. Commodity distribution program. 
Sec. 202. Commodity supplemental food program. 
Sec. 203. Distribution of surplus commodities to special nutrition projects. 
Sec. 204. Processing of commodities. 
TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS 
Sec. 301. Farmers’ market nutrition program. 
Sec. 302. Nutrition information and awareness pilot program. 
Sec. 303. Fresh fruit and vegetable program. 
Sec. 304. Additional authority for purchase of fresh fruits, vegetables, and 
other specialty food crops. 
Sec. 305. Encouraging locally and regionally grown and raised food. 
Sec. 306. Review of public health benefits of white potatoes. 
Sec. 307. Healthy Food Financing Initiative. 
Sec. 308. Review of sole-source contracts in Federal nutrition programs. 
Sec. 309. Purchase of Halal and Kosher food for emergency food assistance 
program. 
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TITLE 
I—SUPPLEMENTAL 
NU-
TRITION 
ASSISTANCE 
PRO-
GRAM 
SEC. 101. PREVENTING PAYMENT OF CASH TO RECIPIENTS 
OF SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE 
BENEFITS FOR THE RETURN OF EMPTY BOT-
TLES AND CANS USED TO CONTAIN FOOD 
PURCHASED 
WITH 
BENEFITS 
PROVIDED 
UNDER THE PROGRAM. 
Section 3(k)(1) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 
2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012(k)(1)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and hot foods’’ and inserting 
‘‘hot foods’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘and 
any deposit fee in excess of amount of the State fee 
reimbursement (if any) required to purchase any 
food or food product contained in a returnable bottle 
or can, regardless of whether such fee is included in 
the shelf price posted for such food or food prod-
uct,’’. 
SEC. 102. RETAILERS. 
(a) DEFINITION OF RETAIL FOOD STORE.—Section 
3(p)(1)(A) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 2012(p)(1)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘at least 
2’’ and inserting ‘‘at least 3’’. 
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(b) ALTERNATIVE
BENEFIT
DELIVERY.—Section 
7(f) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2016(f)) is amended— 
(1) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(2) IMPOSITION OF COSTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 
subparagraph (B), the Secretary shall require 
participating retailers (including restaurants 
participating in a State option restaurant pro-
gram intended to serve the elderly, disabled, 
and homeless) to pay 100 percent of the costs 
of acquiring, and arrange for the implementa-
tion of, electronic benefit transfer point-of-sale 
equipment and supplies. 
‘‘(B) EXEMPTIONS.—The Secretary may 
exempt from subparagraph (A)— 
‘‘(i) farmers’ markets and other di-
rect-to-consumer markets, military com-
missaries, nonprofit food buying coopera-
tives, and establishments, organizations, 
programs, or group living arrangements 
described in paragraphs (5), (7), and (8) 
of section 3(k); and 
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‘‘(ii) establishments described in para-
graphs (3), (4), and (9) of section 3(k), 
other than restaurants participating in a 
State option restaurant program.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) TERMINATION OF MANUAL VOUCHERS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Effective beginning on 
the effective date of this paragraph, except as 
provided in subparagraph (B), no State shall 
issue manual vouchers to a household that re-
ceives supplemental nutrition assistance under 
this Act or allow retailers to accept manual 
vouchers as payment, unless the Secretary de-
termines that the manual vouchers are nec-
essary, such as in the event of an electronic 
benefit transfer system failure or a disaster sit-
uation. 
‘‘(B) EXEMPTIONS.—The Secretary may 
exempt categories of retailers or individual re-
tailers from subparagraph (A) based on criteria 
established by the Secretary. 
‘‘(5) UNIQUE
IDENTIFICATION
NUMBER
RE-
QUIRED.—In an effort to enhance the antifraud pro-
tections of the program, the Secretary shall require 
all parties providing electronic benefit transfer serv-
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