WIC Improvement Act

Bill: 115-hr-3529
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Brat, Dave [R-VA-7]
Introduced: 2017-07-28
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food assistance and relief

Nutrition and diet
Latest action: action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-07-28
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>WIC Improvement Act </b></p> <p>This bill amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to permit certain multivitamin dietary supplements to be purchased under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program. The bill applies to multivitamin dietary supplements that are: (1) labeled in accordance with specified federal regulations; and (2) increase the availability of low-cost, high nutrient alternatives for the population served by WIC. </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3529 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 28, 2017 Mr. Brat introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To amend the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children to cover certain vitamins.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the WIC Improvement Act . 2. Eligibility to purchase certain vitamins under the WIC program Section 17(b)(14) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 ( 42 U.S.C. 1786(b)(14) ) is amended— (1) by striking (14) Supplemental foods means those foods and inserting the following: (14) Supplemental foods; multivitamin dietary supplements (A) Supplemental foods The term supplemental foods means those foods or multivitamin dietary supplements ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (B) Multivitamin dietary supplement The term multivitamin dietary supplement means a multivitamin dietary supplement— (i) labeled in accordance with part 101 of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment of the WIC Improvement Act ); and (ii) that increases the availability of low-cost, high nutrient alternatives for the population served by the program authorized by this section. .