Healthy Food Choices Act

Bill: 115-hr-6394
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Roe, David P. [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2018-07-17
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food assistance and relief

Nutrition and diet

Poverty and welfare assistance
Latest action: action_date: 2018-08-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-07-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Healthy Food Choices Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to apply nutritional standards for the Department of Agriculture (USDA) Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to foods purchased for the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program).</p> <p>Under current law, 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 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6394 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 17, 2018 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 only supplemental foods that are eligible for purchase under section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (commonly known as the WIC program).

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Healthy Food Choices Act . 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) ). . 3. Effective date This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2019.