Title: SNAP Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2017
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
SNAP Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2017
This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to allow Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) benefits to be used to purchase multivitamin-mineral dietary supplements for home consumption.
The supplements: (1) must provide at least half of the vitamins and minerals for which the National Academy of Medicine establishes dietary reference intakes at 50% or more of the daily value for the intended life stage per daily serving, as determined by the Food and Drug Administration; and (2) may not exceed the tolerable upper intake levels for those nutrients for which an established tolerable upper intake level is determined by the National Academy of Medicine.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3841 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3841

      To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make certain 
  multivitamin-mineral dietary supplements eligible for purchase with 
   supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 26, 2017

  Mr. Rogers of Alabama (for himself, Ms. Sinema, Mrs. Love, and Mr. 
  Cardenas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
      To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make certain 
  multivitamin-mineral dietary supplements eligible for purchase with 
   supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``SNAP Vitamin and Mineral Improvement 
Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. MULTIVITAMIN-MINERAL DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS ELIGIBLE FOR PURCHASE 
              WITH SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE BENEFITS.

    Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (k), by--
                    (A) striking ``and (9)'' and inserting ``(9)''; and
                    (B) inserting before the period at the end the 
                following: ``, and (10) a multivitamin-mineral dietary 
                supplement for home consumption'';
            (2) by inserting after subsection (m) the following:
    ``(m-1) `Multivitamin-mineral dietary supplement' means a substance 
that--
            ``(1) provides at least half of the vitamins and minerals 
        for which the National Academy of Medicine establishes dietary 
        reference intakes, at 50 percent or more of the daily value for 
        the intended life stage per daily serving as determined by the 
        Food and Drug Administration; and
            ``(2) does not exceed the tolerable upper intake levels for 
        those nutrients for which an established tolerable upper intake 
        level is determined by the National Academy of Medicine.''; and
            (3) in subsection (q)(2), by striking ``and spices'' and 
        inserting ``spices, and multivitamin-mineral dietary 
        supplements''.
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