Title: Supportive Living Food Access Protection Act of 2020
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Supportive Living Food Access Protection Act of 2020
This bill modifies the definitions of food and household under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) to make eligible for SNAP benefits individuals (including their spouses) who reside in certain residential care facilities and who are 60 years of age or over or receive Supplemental Security Income or other needs-based Social Security payments for the aged, blind, and disabled.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5038 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5038

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to modify the definition of 
 a household under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 16, 2020

  Ms. Duckworth (for herself and Mr. Durbin) 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 modify the definition of 
 a household under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, 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 ``Supportive Living Food Access 
Protection Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS OF FOOD AND HOUSEHOLD.

    Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (k)(3), by inserting ``residential care 
        settings provided funds by the appropriate State agency under 
        regulations issued under section 1915(c) of the Social Security 
        Act (42 U.S.C. 1396n(c)),'' before ``public or private''; and
            (2) in subsection (m)(5), by adding at the end the 
        following:
                    ``(F)(i) Individuals who are 60 years of age or 
                over or who receive supplemental security income 
                benefits or disability or blindness payments under 
                title I, II, X, XIV, or XVI of the Social Security Act 
                (42 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) who reside in a residential 
                care setting provided funds by the appropriate State 
                agency under regulations issued under section 1915(c) 
                of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396n(c)); and
                    ``(ii) the spouses of those individuals if the 
                spouse resides in a residential care setting described 
                in clause (i).''.

SEC. 3. ISSUANCE AND USE OF PROGRAM BENEFITS.

    Section 7(f)(2)(B)(ii) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 2016(f)(2)(B)(ii)) is amended by inserting ``and residential 
care settings provided funds by the appropriate State agency under 
regulations issued under section 1915(c) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1396n(c))'' before the period at the end.

SEC. 4. REVIEW OF PROGRAM OPERATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 9(i)(2) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 
2008 (7 U.S.C. 2018(i)(2)) is amended by striking ``December 31, 2020'' 
and inserting ``the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment of 
the Supportive Living Food Access Protection Act of 2020''.
    (b) Regulations.--The Secretary shall promulgate any regulations 
necessary to carry out the amendment made by subsection (a) not later 
than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act.
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