Title: Fraud Reduction Through Photographic Identification Act of 2018
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Fraud Reduction Through Photographic Identification Act of 2018
This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) beneficiaries to show photographic identification when making purchases using SNAP benefits.
State agencies must require the electronic benefits transfer card used for SNAP benefits to list the names of:
Each individual listed on the card must show photographic identification at the point of sale when using the card. A head of a household is not required to show photographic identification if the card includes a photograph of that individual.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3025 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3025

  To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to prevent the illegal 
 trafficking of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits by 
requiring all program beneficiaries to show valid photo identification 
              when purchasing items with program benefits.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 7, 2018

  Mr. Kennedy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to prevent the illegal 
 trafficking of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits by 
requiring all program beneficiaries to show valid photo identification 
              when purchasing items with program benefits.

    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 ``Fraud Reduction Through Photographic 
Identification Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. IDENTIFICATION FOR CARD USE.

    Section 7(h)(9) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2016(h)(9)) is amended--
            (1) in the paragraph heading, by striking ``Optional 
        photographic identification'' and inserting ``Identification 
        for card use'';
            (2) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as clauses 
        (i) and (ii), respectively, and indenting appropriately;
            (3) by inserting before clause (i) (as so redesignated) the 
        following:
                    ``(A) Listed beneficiaries.--A State agency shall 
                require that an electronic benefit card lists the names 
                of--
                            ``(i) the head of the household;
                            ``(ii) each adult member of the household; 
                        and
                            ``(iii) each adult that is not a member of 
                        the household that is authorized to use that 
                        card.
                    ``(B) Photographic identification required.--
                            ``(i) In general.--Except as provided under 
                        clause (ii), any individual listed on an 
                        electronic benefit card under subparagraph (A) 
                        shall be required to show photographic 
                        identification at the point of sale when using 
                        the card.
                            ``(ii) Head of household.--A head of a 
                        household is not required to show photographic 
                        identification under clause (i) if the 
                        electronic benefit card contains a photograph 
                        of that individual under subparagraph (C)(i).
                    ``(C) Optional photographic identification.--'';
            (4) in subparagraph (C) (as so designated)--
                    (A) in clause (i) (as so redesignated), by striking 
                ``1 or more members of a'' and inserting ``the head of 
                the''; and
                    (B) in clause (ii) (as so redesignated)--
                            (i) by striking ``subparagraph (A)'' and 
                        inserting ``clause (i)''; and
                            (ii) by inserting ``subject to subparagraph 
                        (B)(i)'' after ``the card''; and
            (5) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) Visual verification.--Any individual that is 
                shown photographic identification or an electronic 
                benefit card containing a photograph, as applicable, 
                under subparagraph (B) shall visually confirm that the 
                photograph on the identification or the electronic 
                benefit card, as applicable, is a clear and accurate 
                likeness of the individual using the electronic benefit 
                card.''.
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