Title: SNAP Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2019
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
SNAP Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2019
This bill allows 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.
Specifically, 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.
The bill amends the definition of "staple food" to exclude multivitamin-mineral dietary supplements.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1717 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1717

      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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 5, 2019

Mr. Scott of South Carolina (for himself and Ms. Sinema) 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 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 2019''.

SEC. 2. MULTIVITAMIN-MINERAL DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 2012) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (k)--
                    (A) by striking ``shelters, and (9) in'' and 
                inserting the following: ``shelters;
            ``(9) in'';
                    (B) by striking ``arrangement, (8) in'' and 
                inserting the following: ``arrangement;
            ``(8) in'';
                    (C) by striking ``subsistence, (7) in'' and 
                inserting the following: ``subsistence;
            ``(7) in'';
                    (D) by striking ``programs, (6) in'' and inserting 
                the following: ``programs;
            ``(6) in'';
                    (E) by striking ``section 9(h), (5) in'' and 
                inserting the following: ``section 9(h);
            ``(5) in'';
                    (F) by striking ``elderly, (4) in'' and inserting 
                the following: ``elderly;
            ``(4) in'';
                    (G) by striking ``household, (3) in'' and inserting 
                the following: ``household;
            ``(3) in'';
                    (H) by striking ``product, (2) seeds'' and 
                inserting the following: ``product;
            ``(2) seeds'';
                    (I) by striking the subsection designation and all 
                that follows through ``(1) any food'' and inserting the 
                following:
    ``(k) Food.--The term `food' means--
            ``(1) any food'';
                    (J) in paragraph (1) (as so amended)--
                            (i) by striking ``clauses'' and inserting 
                        ``paragraphs''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``of this subsection'';
                    (K) in paragraph (9) (as so amended), by striking 
                the period at the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (L) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(10) a multivitamin-mineral dietary supplement for home 
        consumption.'';
            (2) by redesignating subsections (n) through (v) as 
        subsections (o) through (w), respectively;
            (3) by inserting after subsection (m) the following:
    ``(n) Multivitamin-Mineral Dietary Supplement.--The term 
`multivitamin-mineral dietary supplement' means a substance that--
            ``(1) provides at least half of the vitamins and minerals--
                    ``(A) for which the National Academy of Medicine 
                establishes dietary reference intakes; and
                    ``(B) 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
            (4) in subsection (r) (as so redesignated)--
                    (A) by striking the subsection designation and all 
                that follows through ``Except'' and inserting the 
                following:
    ``(r) Staple Foods.--
            ``(1) In general.--Except'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1) (as so amended), by indenting 
                subparagraphs (A) through (D) appropriately; and
                    (C) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) by striking the paragraph designation 
                        and all that follows through ``do not'' and 
                        inserting the following:
            ``(2) Exclusions.--The term `staple foods' does not''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``and spices'' and 
                        inserting ``spices, and multivitamin-mineral 
                        dietary supplements''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 10 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 
        U.S.C. 2019) is amended in the first sentence by striking 
        ``section 3(o)(4)'' and inserting ``section 3(p)(4)''.
            (2) Section 11 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 
        U.S.C. 2020) is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ``section 
                3(s)(1)'' and inserting ``section 3(t)(1)'';
                    (B) in subsection (d)--
                            (i) by striking ``section 3(s)(1)'' each 
                        place it appears and inserting ``section 
                        3(t)(1)''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``section 3(s)(2)'' each 
                        place it appears and inserting ``section 
                        3(t)(2)''; and
                    (C) in subsection (e)(17), by striking ``described 
                in section 3(s)(1)''.
            (3) Section 16(c)(1)(A)(ii)(II) of the Food and Nutrition 
        Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2025(c)(1)(A)(ii)(II)) is amended by 
        striking ``section 3(u)(4)'' and inserting ``section 3(v)(4)''.
            (4) Section 19(a)(2)(A)(ii) of the Food and Nutrition Act 
        of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2028(a)(2)(A)(ii)) is amended by striking 
        ``section 3(u)(4)'' and inserting ``section 3(v)(4)''.
            (5) Section 27(a)(2) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 
        (7 U.S.C. 2036(a)(2)) is amended by striking ``section 
        3(u)(4)'' each place it appears and inserting ``section 
        3(v)(4)''.
            (6) Section 404 of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 
        U.S.C. 604) is amended in each of subsections (i) and (j) by 
        striking ``section 3(l) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008'' 
        and inserting ``section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 
        (7 U.S.C. 2012)''.
            (7) Section 408(a)(12)(B)(i) of title IV of the Social 
        Security Act (42 U.S.C. 608(a)(12)(B)(i)) is amended in the 
        second sentence by striking ``(within'' and all that follows 
        through the period at the end and inserting ``(as defined in 
        section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
        2012)).''.
            (8) Section 454(29) of title IV of the Social Security Act 
        (42 U.S.C. 654(29)) is amended by striking ``section 3(h) of 
        the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012(h))'' each 
        place it appears and inserting ``section 3 of the Food and 
        Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012)''.
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