A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to exclude a basic allowance for housing from income for purposes of eligibility for the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Bill: 117-s-3781
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2022-03-08
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Latest action: action_date: 2022-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-03-08
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill excludes military housing allowances from income when determining eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3781 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 8 (legislative day, March 7), 2022 Ms. Duckworth (for herself, Ms. Murkowski , Ms. Klobuchar , Mrs. Gillibrand , Mr. Durbin , Mr. Booker , Mrs. Feinstein , Ms. Rosen , Ms. Warren , Mr. Blumenthal , Mrs. Murray , Mr. Padilla , Mr. Warnock , and Ms. Baldwin ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry A BILL To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to exclude a basic allowance for housing from income for purposes of eligibility for the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

1. Exclusion of basic allowance for housing from income Section 5(d) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2014(d) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (18), by striking and at the end; (2) in paragraph (19)(B), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (20) a basic allowance for housing paid to a member of a uniformed service under section 403 of title 37, United States Code. .