Title: WIC Waiver Extension Act of 2020
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
WIC Waiver Extension Act of 2020
This bill extends authority through September 30, 2021, for the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to grant certain waivers to participants under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency.
Specifically, USDA may

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8024 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8024

  To extend certain waivers under the WIC program during the COVID-19 
                   pandemic, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 11, 2020

   Ms. Schrier (for herself and Ms. Herrera Beutler) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                                 Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
  To extend certain waivers under the WIC program during the COVID-19 
                   pandemic, 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 ``WIC Waiver Extension Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF PHYSICAL PRESENCE WAIVER UNDER WIC DURING CERTAIN 
              PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES.

    Section 2203 of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Public 
Law 116-127; 42 U.S.C. 1786 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ``any portion'' and 
        all that follows through the period at the end and inserting 
        ``the qualified emergency period described in subsection 
        (c)(1).''; and
            (2) by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:
    ``(c) Applicability.--
            ``(1) Qualified emergency period.--The qualified emergency 
        period described in this paragraph is the period--
                    ``(A) beginning on March 18, 2020; and
                    ``(B) ending on September 30, 2021.
            ``(2) Effect of extension.--The Secretary may extend 
        (without further application) a waiver approved by the 
        Secretary and received by a State agency under this section 
        before the date of the enactment of the WIC Waiver Extension 
        Act of 2020 such that such waiver applies during the qualified 
        emergency period described in paragraph (1).
            ``(3) Sunset.--The authority under this section shall 
        expire on September 30, 2021.''.

SEC. 3. EXTENSION OF ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS WAIVER UNDER WIC.

    Section 2204 of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Public 
Law 116-127) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c), by striking ``September 30, 2020'' 
        and inserting ``September 30, 2021''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Effect of Extension.--The Secretary of Agriculture may extend 
(without further application) a waiver approved by the Secretary of 
Agriculture and received by a State agency under this section before 
the date of the enactment of the WIC Waiver Extension Act of 2020 such 
that such waiver applies until September 30, 2021.''.
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