Title: Northern Mariana Islands Enhanced Nutrition Assistance Act of 2018
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Northern Mariana Islands Enhanced Nutrition Assistance Act of 2018
This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to reauthorize through FY2023 the pilot program for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to operate the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) in the same manner in which the program is operated in the states.
The bill prohibits funds available for the pilot program from being provided for the Northern Mariana Islands nutrition assistance program block grant during a year in which more than $8.5 million in unexpended pilot program funds remain available for the grant.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5478 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5478

 To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to make funds available for the 
 Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands pilot project for fiscal 
                        years 2019 through 2023.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 11, 2018

  Mr. Sablan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to make funds available for the 
 Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands pilot project for fiscal 
                        years 2019 through 2023.

    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 ``Northern Mariana Islands Enhanced 
Nutrition Assistance Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 4031(e)(2) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-
79; 48 U.S.C. 1841 note) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)--
                    (A) by striking ``subparagraph (B)'' and inserting 
                ``subparagraphs (B) and (C)'';
                    (B) in clause (i) by striking ``and'' at the end;
                    (C) in clause (ii)--
                            (i) by striking the period at the end and 
                        inserting ``; and''; and
                            (ii) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iii) $8,500,000 for each of the fiscal 
                        years 2019 through 2023.'';
            (2) in subparagraph (B) by striking ``If'' and inserting 
        ``Subject to subparagraph (C), if''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) Limitation.--Notwithstanding subparagraph 
                (B), no funds available under subparagraph (A)(iii) may 
                be provided under subparagraph (B) for a fiscal year if 
                the amount of unexpended funds that remain available 
                under subparagraph (B)(ii) as of January 1 immediately 
                preceding the first day of such fiscal year exceeds 
                $8,500,000.''.
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