Title: SNAP Healthy Incentives Act of 2018
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
SNAP Healthy Incentives Act of 2018
This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide a financial incentive for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) participants to purchase fruits and vegetables.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4855 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4855

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide an incentive for 
   households participating in the supplemental nutrition assistance 
 program to purchase certain nutritious fruits and vegetables that are 
                       beneficial to good health.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 19, 2018

 Mr. Cartwright (for himself, Mr. Pocan, Ms. DeLauro, Ms. Pingree, Ms. 
  Moore, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Cardenas, Ms. 
Slaughter, Mr. Takano, Ms. Kaptur, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Ms. 
  Sewell of Alabama, Mr. Polis, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Ms. 
Wilson of Florida, Ms. Norton, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Amodei, Mr. 
Soto, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Shea-Porter, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, 
  and Mr. Lawson of Florida) 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 provide an incentive for 
   households participating in the supplemental nutrition assistance 
 program to purchase certain nutritious fruits and vegetables that are 
                       beneficial to good health.

    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 Healthy Incentives Act of 
2018''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    (a) Definition.--Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 2012) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (k) by inserting ``, unless the context 
        specifies otherwise,'' after ``means'';
            (2) by redesignating subsections (u) and (v) as subsections 
        (v) and (w), respectively; and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (t) the following:
    ``(u) `Supplemental fruits and vegetables' means those fruits and 
vegetables containing nutrients that promote the health of the 
population served by the supplemental nutrition assistance program, as 
determined by the Secretary by rule.''.
    (b) Increase in Value of Allotment.--Section 8 of the Food and 
Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2017) is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
    ``(g) Increase in Value of Allotment.--The value of an allotment, 
determined under this section without regard to this subsection and 
issued to a household for a month, shall be increased by 30 percent of 
the cost of supplemental fruits and vegetables purchased by such 
household during such month, but not to exceed an aggregate monthly 
amount determined by the Secretary on the basis of household size.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on 
October 1, 2018.
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