An Act to amend the Social Security Act with respect to food stamp purchases by welfare recipients.
PL 94-585 (H.R.13500), enacted 10/21/1976

PUBLIC LAW 94-585—OCT. 21, 1976 
90 STAT. 2901 
Public Law 94-585 
94th Congress 
An Act 
To amend the Social Security Act with respect to food stamp purchases by 
Oct. 21, 19 <o 
welfare recipients. 
[H.R. 13500] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress asserribled^ 
Food stamps., 
FOOD STAMP DISTRIBUTION TO AFDC FAMIUES 
That (a) Part A of title IV of the Social Security Act is amended by 
adding at the end thereof the following new section: 
u 
rOOD STAMP DISTRIBUTION 
"SEC. 410. (a) Any State plan for aid and services to needy families 42 USC 610. 
with children may (but is not required under this title or any other 
provision of Federal law to) provide for the institution of procedures, 
in any or all areas of the State, by the State agency administering or 
^ 
supervising the administration of such plan under which any house-
hold participating in the food stamp program established by the Food 
Stamp Act of 1964, as amended, will be entitled, if it so elects, to have 7 USC 20'11 
the charges, if any, for its coupon allotment under such program ^^ot^-
deducted from any aid, in the form of money payments, which is (or, 
except for the deduction of such charge, would be) payable to or with 
respect to such household (or any member or members thereof) under 
such plan and have its coupon allotment distributed to it with such aid. 
"(b) Any deduction made pursuant to an option provided in 
accordance with subsection (a) shall not be considered to be a payment 
described in section 406 (b) (2). 
42 USC 606. 
"(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no agency which 
is designated as a State agency for any State under or pursuant to the 
Food Stamp Act of 1964, as amended, shall be regarded as having 
failed to comply with any requirement imposed by or pursuant to such 
Act solely because of the failure, of the State agency administering or 
supervising the administration of the State plan (approved under this 
part) of such State, to institute or carry out a procedure, described in 
subsection (a).". 
(b) Administrative costs incurred by a State plan for aid and 
42 USC 610 note, 
services to needy families with children, approved under Part A of 
title IV of the Social Security Act, in conducting procedures 42 USC 601. 
(described in section 410 of such Act, as added hy subsection (a) of 
this section) in connection with the food stamp program shall be paid 
from funds appropriated to carry out the Food Stamp Act of 1964, 
as amended. 
SEC. 2. (a) Title XVI of the Social Security Act is amended by add-
ing immediately after section 1617 the following new section: 
a 
OPERATION o r STATE SUPPLEMENTATION PROGRAMS 
"SEC. 1618. (a) In order for any State which makes supplementary 
42 USC 1382g. 
payments of the type described in section 1616(a) (including pay- 42 USC 1382e. 
90 STAT. 2902 
PUBLIC LAW 94-585—OCT. 21, 1976 
87 Stat. 155. 
42 u s e 1396. 
42 u s e 1382f. 
42 u s e 1382e 
note. 
Effective date. 
42 u s e 1382g 
note. 
ments pursuant to an agreement entered into under section 212(a) of 
Public Law 93-66), on or after June 30, 1977, to be eligible for pay-
ments pursuant to title XIX with respect to expenditures for any cal-
endar quarter which begins— 
^'(1) after June 30,1977, or, if later, 
"(2) after the calendar quarter in which it first makes such 
supplementary payments, 
such State must have in effect an agreement with the Secretary 
whereby the State will— 
"(3) continue to make such supplementary payments, and 
"(4) maintain such supplementary payments at levels which 
are not lower than the levels of such payments in effect in Decem-
ber 1976, or, if no such payments were made in that month, the 
levels for the first subsequent month in which such payments were 
made. 
"(b) The Secretary shall not find that a State has failed to meet the 
requirements imposed by paragraph (4) of subsection (a) with 
respect to the levels of its supplementary payments for a particular 
month or months if the State's expenditures for such payments in the 
twelve-month period (within which such month or months fall) begin-
ning on the effective date of any increase in the level of supplemental 
security income benefits pursuant to section 1617 are not less than its 
expenditures for such payments in the preceding twelve-month 
period.". 
(b) Section 401(a) (2) of the Social Security Amendments of 1972 
is amended— 
(1) by inserting "(subject to the second sentence of this para-
graph)" immediately after "Act" where it first appears in sub-
paragraph (B),and 
(2) by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: 
"In determining the difference between the level specified in sub-
paragraph (A) and the benefits and income described in sub-
paragraph (B) there shall be excluded any part of any such bene-
fit which results from (and would not be payable but for) any 
cost-of-living increase in such benefits under section 1617 of such 
Act (or any general increase enacted by law in the dollar amounts 
referred to m such section) becoming effective after June 30, 
1977.". 
(c) The provisions of this section shall be effective with respect to 
benefits payable for months after June 1977. 
Approved October 21, 1976. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 
HOUSE REPORT No. 94-1210 (eomm. on Ways and Means). 
SENATE REPORT No. 94-1345 (eomm. on Finance). 
eONGRESSIONAL REeORD, Vol. 122 (1976): 
June 8, considered and passed House. 
Oct. 1, considered and passed Senate, amended; House concurred in Senate 
amendments. 
WEEKLY eOMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, VoL 12, No. 44: 
Oct. 22, Presidential statement.