Title: SNAP Access for Medically Vulnerable Children Act of 2022
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
SNAP Access for Medically Vulnerable Children Act of 2022
This bill revises the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to allow households with individuals under 18 years of age who have chronic medical conditions to deduct certain medical expenses incurred by the individual from household income when calculating SNAP benefits. Currently, the excess medical expense deduction under SNAP allows households with an elderly or disabled individual to deduct such expenses.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9144 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9144

 To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to allow households with 
 children with chronic medical conditions to deduct allowable medical 
 expenses incurred by such household member that exceeds $35 per month.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 7, 2022

Ms. Brown of Ohio 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 allow households with 
 children with chronic medical conditions to deduct allowable medical 
 expenses incurred by such household member that exceeds $35 per month.

    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 Access for Medically Vulnerable 
Children Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. EXCESS MEDICAL EXPENSE DEDUCTION.

    Section 5(e)(5) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2014(e)(5)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)--
                    (A) by inserting ``, or a member who is under 18 
                years of age and meets one of the criteria described in 
                subclauses (I) through (III) of section 
                1945(h)(1)(A)(ii) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
                1396w-4(h)(1)(A)(ii)),'' after ``member'' the 1st place 
                it appears, and
                    (B) by striking ``elderly or disabled'' the last 
                place it appears and inserting ``such'', and
            (2) by amending subparagraph (B)(ii)(I) to read as follows:
                                    ``(I) be designed to minimize the 
                                burden for the eligible household 
                                choosing to deduct the recurrent 
                                medical expenses of the elderly or 
                                disabled member, or of the member who 
                                is under 18 years of age and meets one 
                                of the criteria described in subclauses 
                                (I) through (III) of section 
                                1945(h)(1)(A)(ii) of the Social 
                                Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396w-
                                4(h)(1)(A)(ii)), pursuant to the 
                                method;''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act, and the amendments made by this Act, shall take effect on 
October 1, 2022.
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