Healthy Food Choices Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4881
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Roe, David P. [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2016-03-23
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food assistance and relief

Fruit and vegetables

Meat

Nutrition and diet

Poverty and welfare assistance

Seafood
Latest action: action_date: 2016-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-03-23
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Healthy Food Choices Act of 2016</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: </p> <ul> <li> meat, fish, and poultry; </li> <li> beans, soups, and immature varieties of legumes (such as those used in canned green peas, green beans, snap beans, yellow beans, and wax beans); and </li> <li> baked beans with meat. </li> </ul> <p>(Foods purchased for WIC must: (1) contain nutrients determined by nutritional research to be lacking in the diets of pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, infants, or children; or (2) promote the health of the population served by the program.) </p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4881 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 23, 2016 Mr. Roe of Tennessee introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require that supplemental nutrition assistance benefits be used to purchase supplemental foods that are eligible for purchase under section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (commonly known as the WIC program) and certain additional foods.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Healthy Food Choices Act of 2016 . 2. Amendment Section 3(k) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2012(k) ) is amended to read as follows: (k) Food means a supplemental food of the kind prescribed by the Secretary under section 17(b)(14) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 ( 42 U.S.C. 1786(b)(14) ), except that such term includes— (1) meat, fish, and poultry; (2) beans, soups, and immature varieties of legumes (such as those used in canned green peas, green beans, snap beans, yellow beans, and wax beans); and (3) baked beans with meat (e.g., beans and franks). . 3. Effective date This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2017.