Title: SNAP Tribal Food Sovereignty Act of 2021
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
SNAP Tribal Food Sovereignty Act of 2021
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to enter into self-determination contracts upon the request of Indian tribes and tribal organizations to carry out the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2757 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2757

To amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to 
  allow the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into self-determination 
  contracts with Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations to carry out 
              supplemental nutrition assistance programs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 20, 2021

Ms. Smith (for herself, Mr. Rounds, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mrs. Gillibrand, 
Ms. Warren, Ms. Baldwin, Mrs. Feinstein, and Mr. Wyden) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             Indian Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to 
  allow the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into self-determination 
  contracts with Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations to carry out 
              supplemental nutrition assistance programs.

    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 Tribal Food Sovereignty Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. SELF-DETERMINATION FOR SNAP.

    Title I of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance 
Act (25 U.S.C. 5321 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:

``SEC. 112. SELF-DETERMINATION FOR SNAP.

    ``(a) Agriculture Self-Determination Authorized.--The Secretary of 
Agriculture shall enter into self-determination contracts, in 
accordance with subsection (b), with Indian Tribes and Tribal 
organizations, on the request of any Indian Tribe by Tribal resolution, 
to plan, conduct, and administer any function, service, or activity of 
the supplemental nutrition assistance program established under the 
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) for the Indian 
Tribe.
    ``(b) Self-Determination Contract.--A self-determination contract 
entered into under subsection (a) shall have the same terms and 
conditions, and be subject to the same procedures, regulations, and 
requirements, as a self-determination contract entered into under 
section 102, except that the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
Department of Agriculture shall be the appropriate Secretary and agency 
for purposes of a self-determination contract under this section.
    ``(c) Technical Assistance.--The Office of Self-Governance of the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs shall provide technical assistance regarding 
the self-determination contracts authorized under this section to--
            ``(1) the Secretary of Agriculture; and
            ``(2) Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations that request 
        that assistance.''.
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