Nutritious Options for Meals Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2383
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Rice, Tom [R-SC-7]
Introduced: 2015-05-15
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food assistance and relief

Nutrition and diet
Latest action: action_date: 2015-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-05-15
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Nutritious Options for Meals Act of 2015 </b></p> <p>This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to apply nutritional standards for the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to foods purchased for USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program), with the addition of lean meat and poultry. </p> <p>Foods purchased for SNAP must be of the kind prescribed by USDA in implementing WIC requirements that: (1) food contain nutrients determined by nutritional research to be lacking in the diets of pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, infants, or children; or (2) food promote the health of the population served by the program. Examples of foods acceptable under the bill include vegetables, fruits, milk, juice, breakfast cereal, cheese, eggs, yogurt, peanut butter, legumes, whole grain bread, and lean meat or poultry. </p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2383 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 15, 2015 Mr. Rice of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. McClintock , Mr. Blum , Mr. Jones , Mrs. Miller of Michigan , Mr. Byrne , Mr. Weber of Texas , Mr. Cook , Mr. Rohrabacher , and Mr. Mooney of West Virginia ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to change the eligible foods allowed for purchase under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (commonly known as SNAP).

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Nutritious Options for Meals Act of 2015 . 2. Amendment Section 3(k)(1) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2012(k)(1) ) is amended by striking any food the first place it appears and all that follows through consumption the last place it appears, and inserting the following: a supplemental food of the kind prescribed by the Secretary under section 17(b)(14) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, or lean meat or poultry as prescribed by the Secretary, .