Title: SNAP PLUS Act of 2021
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
SNAP Provisions to Lower Undue Struggle Act of 2021 or the SNAP PLUS Act of 2021
This bill expands the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to permit the use of SNAP benefits to purchase prepared foods fit for immediate consumption and hot foods.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6338 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6338

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 20, 2021

 Mr. Rush (for himself, Ms. Meng, and Mr. Fitzpatrick) 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 food items.

    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 2021'' or the ``SNAP PLUS Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2014) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (k)--
                    (A) 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,'',
                    (B) by striking ``and (9)'' the last place it 
                appears and inserting ``(9)'', and
                    (C) by inserting before the period at the end the 
                following:
``, and (10) prepared foods fit for immediate consumption and hot 
foods'',
            (2) in subsection (o)(1)(A)--
                    (A) by inserting ``(i)'' after ``(A)'',
                    (B) by striking ``; or'' at the end and inserting 
                ``; and'', and
                    (C) by adding at end the following:
                    ``(ii) does not have more than 50 percent of its 
                total gross sales from prepared foods fit for immediate 
                consumption and hot foods; or'', and
            (3) in subsection (q)(2)--
                    (A) by striking ``include accessory'' and inserting 
                the following:
        ``include--
                    ``(A) accessory'',
                    (B) by striking the period at the end and inserting 
                ``; and'', and
                    (C) by adding at end the following:
                    ``(B) prepared foods fit for immediate consumption 
                and hot foods.''.
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