Title: SNAP PLUS Act of 2020
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
SNAP Provisions to Lower Undue Struggle Act of 2020 or the SNAP PLUS Act of 2020
This bill expands the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) to permit the use of SNAP benefits to purchase items such as vitamins, household supplies, personal hygiene items, and menstrual hygiene products. Additionally, the bill requires specified annual increases for the value of the allotment of SNAP benefits that state agencies are authorized to issue to eligible households.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7271 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7271

  To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to permit supplemental 
nutrition assistance program benefits to be used to purchase additional 
      types of items and to increase the amount of such benefits.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 18, 2020

   Mr. Rush 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 permit supplemental 
nutrition assistance program benefits to be used to purchase additional 
      types of items and to increase the amount of such 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 ```SNAP Provisions to Lower Undue 
Struggle Act of 2020'' or the ``SNAP PLUS Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    The Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) is 
amended--
            (1) in section 3--
                    (A) in subsection (k)--
                            (i) in paragraph (1) by striking ``hot 
                        foods or hot food products ready for immediate 
                        consumption other than those authorized 
                        pursuant to clauses (3), (4), (5), (7), (8), 
                        and (9) of this subsection,'';
                            (ii) by striking ``and (9)'' the last place 
                        it appears and inserting ``(9)''; and
                            (iii) by inserting before the period at the 
                        end the following:
``, and (10) vitamins, (including supplements), medicines, prepared 
foods fit for immediate consumption, hot foods, cleaning supplies, 
paper products, other household supplies, and personal hygiene items'';
                    (B) by inserting after subsection (o) the 
                following:
    ``(o-1) `Personal hygiene items' means items identified in rules 
prescribed by the Secretary designed to help encourage personal germ 
control and cleanliness, and including toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, 
shampoo, deodorant, and menstrual hygiene products.''; and
                    (C) by inserting after subsection (m) the 
                following:
    ``(m-1) `Menstrual hygiene products' means menstrual cups, and 
sanitary napkins and tampons, that conform to applicable industry 
standards.''; and
            (2) in section (8)(a) by adding at the end the following:
``The value of the allotment shall be increased by $20 per day annually 
beginning on October 1, adjusted to reflect changes for the 12-month 
period ending the preceding November 30 in the Consumer Price Index for 
All Urban Consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the 
Department of Labor.''.
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