To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to modify the eligibility disqualification for certain convicted felons.

Bill: 113-hr-5642
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2014-09-18
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food assistance and relief

Poverty and welfare assistance

Sex offenses

Violent crime
Latest action: action_date: 2014-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Nutrition.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-09-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to strike a provision that allows individuals convicted of felonies that would otherwise disqualify them from receiving benefits under the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) to still receive benefits unless they also: failed to comply with the terms of the sentence; fled to avoid prosecution, custody, or confinement; or violated a condition of probation or parole. </p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5642 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 18, 2014 Mr. Reed introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to modify the eligibility disqualification for certain convicted felons.

1. Amendments Section 6(r)(1) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 201(r)(1) ) is amended— (1) by striking subparagraph (B), (2) in subparagraph (A)— (A) in clause (v) by striking clause (i), (ii), or (iii) and inserting subparagraph (A), (B), or (C) , and (B) by redesignating clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), and (v) as subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), (D), and (E), respectively, (3) by striking if_(A) and inserting if , and (4) by moving the left margin of subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), (D), and (E), as so redesignated, 2 ems to the left.