Title: Tribal Food Sovereignty Act of 2018
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
Tribal Food Sovereignty Act of 2018
This bill amends the Indian Self-Determination Act to direct the Department of Agriculture to enter into self-determination contracts upon the request of Indian tribes and tribal organizations to carry out supplemental nutrition assistance programs.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3046 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3046

To allow the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into self-determination 
  contracts with Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations to carry out 
              supplemental nutrition assistance programs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 11, 2018

  Ms. Smith (for herself, Ms. Heitkamp, Ms. Warren, Ms. Baldwin, Ms. 
Cortez Masto, Mr. Udall, and Ms. Harris) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To allow the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into self-determination 
  contracts with Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations to carry out 
              supplemental nutrition assistance programs.

    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 ``Tribal Food Sovereignty Act of 
2018''.

SEC. 2. SELF-DETERMINATION FOR SNAP.

    Title I of the Indian Self-Determination Act (25 U.S.C. 5321 et 
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 112. SELF-DETERMINATION FOR SNAP.

    ``(a) Agriculture Self-Determination Authorized.--The Secretary of 
Agriculture shall enter into self-determination contracts, in 
accordance with subsection (b), with Indian tribes and tribal 
organizations, upon the request of any Indian tribe by tribal 
resolution, to plan, conduct, and administer any function, service, or 
activity of a supplemental nutrition assistance program established 
under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) for 
the Indian tribe.
    ``(b) Self-Determination Contract.--A self-determination contract 
entered into under subsection (a) shall have the same terms and 
conditions, and be subject to the same procedures, regulations, and 
requirements, as a self-determination contract entered into under 
section 102, except that the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
Department of Agriculture shall be the appropriate Secretary and agency 
for purposes of a self-determination contract under this section.
    ``(c) Technical Assistance.--The Office of Self-Governance of the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs shall provide technical assistance regarding 
the self-determination contracts authorized under this section to the 
Secretary of Agriculture, and to Indian tribes and tribal organizations 
who request such assistance.''.
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