[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3405 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3405

    To amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase the nutritional 
    assistance block grant for Puerto Rico; and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 5, 2001

 Mr. Acevedo-Vila introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                      the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase the nutritional 
    assistance block grant for Puerto Rico; and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fair Nutrition for American Citizens 
Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. CONSOLIDATED BLOCK GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE FUNDS.

    (a) Consolidated Funding.--Section 19(a)(1) of the Food Stamp Act 
of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2028(a)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)--
                    (A) by striking ``the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico'' 
                and inserting ``governmental entities specified in 
                subparagraph (D)'';
                    (B) in clause (ii), by striking ``and'' at the end; 
                and
                    (C) by striking clause (iii) and all that follows 
                and inserting the following:
            ``(iii) for fiscal year 2002, $1,356,000,000; and
            ``(iv) for each of fiscal years 2003 through 2006, the 
        amount provided in clause (iii), as adjusted by the sum of 2 
        percent and the percentage by which the thrifty food plan has 
        been adjusted under section 3(o)(4) between June 30, 2001, and 
        June 30 of the immediately preceding fiscal year;
to pay the expenditures for nutrition assistance programs for needy 
persons as described in subparagraphs (B) and (C).'';
            (2) in subparagraph (B)--
                    (A) by striking ``(B) The'' and inserting the 
                following:
                    ``(B) Maximum payments to commonwealth of puerto 
                rico.--
                            ``(i) In general.--The'';
                    (B) by inserting ``of Puerto Rico'' after 
                ``Commonwealth'' each place it appears; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(ii) Exception for expenditures for 
                        certain systems.--Notwithstanding subparagraph 
                        (A) and clause (i), the Commonwealth of Puerto 
                        Rico may spend not more than $6,000,000 of the 
                        amount required to be paid to the Commonwealth 
                        for fiscal year 2002 under subparagraph (A) to 
                        pay 100 percent of the costs of--
                                    ``(I) upgrading and modernizing the 
                                electronic data processing system used 
                                to carry out nutrition assistance 
                                programs for needy persons; and
                                    ``(II) implementing systems to 
                                simplify the determination of 
                                eligibility to receive that nutrition 
                                assistance.''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) American samoa.--For each fiscal year, the 
                Secretary shall reserve 0.4 percent of the funds made 
                available under subparagraph (A) for payment to 
                American Samoa to pay 100 percent of the expenditures 
                for a nutrition assistance program extended under 
                section 601(c) of Public Law 96-597 (48 U.S.C. 
                1469d(c)).
                    ``(D) Governmental entity.--A governmental entity 
                specified in this subparagraph is--
                            ``(i) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and
                            ``(ii) for fiscal year 2003 and each fiscal 
                        year thereafter, American Samoa.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 24 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 
(7 U.S.C. 2033) is repealed.
    (c) Effective Date.--
            (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
        amendments made by this section take effect on October 1, 2002.
            (2) Exception for expenditures for certain systems.--The 
        amendments made by subsection (a)(2) take effect on the date of 
        enactment of this Act.
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