Title: Fruits and Vegetables for Children During Pandemic Act of 2020
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Fruits and Vegetables for Children During Pandemic Act of 2020
This bill increases emergency Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) benefits that were provided under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to households with children who would otherwise receive free or reduced-price school meals if their schools were not closed due to the COVID-19 (i.e. coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency.
Specifically, the bill provides such households with a $35 monthly increase in SNAP benefits to purchase fruits and vegetables.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8135 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8135

   To amend the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to increase 
pandemic EBT benefits for eligible children whose schools are closed to 
 purchase fruits and vegetables they would have otherwise been able to 
                          receive in schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 28, 2020

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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to increase 
pandemic EBT benefits for eligible children whose schools are closed to 
 purchase fruits and vegetables they would have otherwise been able to 
                          receive in schools.

    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 ``Fruits and Vegetables for Children 
During Pandemic Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 1101 of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Public 
Law 116-127; 7 U.S.C. 2011 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b) by inserting ``, and the daily 
        equivalent of the monthly rate of $35 for the purchase of 
        fruits and vegetables,'' after ``days''; and
            (2) in subsection (h)--
                    (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (2) and (3) as 
                subparagraphs (3) and (4), respectively; and
                    (B) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
            ``(2) Fruits and vegetables.--The term `fruits and 
        vegetables' means fruits and vegetables of the kinds that may 
        be purchased with benefits provided by the State under the 
        special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and 
        children in effect under section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act 
        of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786).''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect 
September 4, 2020.
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