HR 1997 IH
special needs, such as households with elderly or dis-
abled members, households in rural areas with low-
income members, homeless individuals, households
residing on reservations, and households in which a
language other than English is spoken.
‘‘(B) In carrying out subparagraph (A), a State
agency—
‘‘(i) shall develop applications containing
the information necessary to comply with the
provisions of this Act;
‘‘(ii) shall permit an applicant household to
apply to participate in the program on the same
day that the household first contacts a food
stamp office in person during office hours;
‘‘(iii) shall consider an application filed on
the date the applicant submits an application
that contains the name, address, and signature
of the applicant;
‘‘(iv) shall require that an adult represent-
ative of each applicant household certify in
writing, under penalty of perjury, that—
‘‘(I) the information contained in the
application is true; and
HR 1997 IH
‘‘(II) all members of the household
are either citizens or are aliens eligible to
receive food stamps under section 6(f);
‘‘(v) shall provide a method of certifying
and issuing coupons to eligible households that
do not reside in permanent dwellings or who do
not have fixed mailing addresses, ensuring that
participation in the food stamp program is lim-
ited to eligible households; and
‘‘(vi) may establish operating procedures
that vary for local food stamp offices to reflect
regional and local differences within the State.
‘‘(C) Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to
prohibit the use of signatures provided and main-
tained electronically, storage of records using auto-
mated information retrieval systems only, or any
other feature of a State agency’s application system
that does not rely exclusively on the collection and
retention of paper applications or other records;’’;
(B) in paragraph (3)—
(i) by striking ‘‘shall—’’ and all that
follows through ‘‘provide each’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘shall provide each’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘(B) assist’’ and all
that follows through the end; and
HR 1997 IH
(C)(i) by striking paragraphs (14) and
(25); and
(ii) by redesignating paragraphs (15)
through (24) as paragraphs (14) through (23),
respectively; and
(2) in subsection (i)—
(A) by striking ‘‘(i) Notwithstanding’’ and
all that follows through ‘‘(2)’’ and inserting the
following:
‘‘(i) APPLICATION AND DENIAL PROCEDURES.—
‘‘(1) 
APPLICATION
PROCEDURES.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law,’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘; (3) households’’ and all
that follows through ‘‘title IV of the Social Se-
curity Act. No’’ and inserting a period and the
following:
‘‘(2) DENIAL AND TERMINATION.—Other than
in a case of disqualification as a penalty for failure
to comply with a public assistance program rule or
regulation, no’’.
SEC. 107. STATE EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING STANDARDS.
Section 11(e)(6) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7
U.S.C. 2020(e)(6)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘(C) the State agency’’ and all
that follows; and
HR 1997 IH
(2) by inserting ‘‘and’’ before ‘‘(B) the State
agency’’.
SEC. 108. EXPEDITED COUPON SERVICE.
Section 11(e)(9) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7
U.S.C. 2020(e)(9)) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A)—
(A) by striking ‘‘five days’’ and inserting
‘‘7 days’’; and
(B) by inserting ‘‘and’’ at the end;
(2) by striking subparagraphs (B) and (C);
(3) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as sub-
paragraph (B); and
(4) in subparagraph (B), as redesignated by
paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘, (B), or (C)’’.
SEC. 109. INCOME AND ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION SYS-
TEMS.
Section 11 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C.
2020) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (18), as amended by section
106(2)(C)—
(A) by striking ‘‘that in information is’’
and inserting ‘‘at the option of the State agen-
cy, that information may be’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘shall’’ before ‘‘be re-
quested’’ and inserting ‘‘may’’; and
HR 1997 IH
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(p) STATE VERIFICATION OPTION.—Notwithstand-
ing any other provision of law, a State agency shall not
be required to use an income and eligibility or an immigra-
tion status verification system established under section
1137 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b–7).’’.
SEC. 110. COLLECTION OF OVERISSUANCES.
(a) COLLECTION OF OVERISSUANCES.—Section 13 of
the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2022) is
amended—
(1) by amending subsection (b) to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘(b) COLLECTION OF OVERISSUANCES.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as otherwise pro-
vided in this subsection, a State agency shall collect
any overissuance of coupons issued to a household
by—
‘‘(A) reducing the allotment of the house-
hold;
‘‘(B) recovering unemployment compensa-
tion from a member of the household under
subsection (c);
‘‘(C) recovering from Federal pay or a
Federal income tax refund under subsection
(d); or