[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5048 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5048

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to permit States to record 
   in writing that applicants for supplemental nutrition assistance 
 benefits have signed an application through a recorded verbal assent 
                          over the telephone.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 17, 2021

  Ms. Kuster (for herself, Ms. Adams, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Panetta, Ms. 
   Blunt Rochester, Mr. Case, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Jacobs of 
   California, Ms. Newman, Mr. Pappas, Mr. Smith of Washington, Ms. 
 Strickland, and Mrs. Trahan) introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to permit States to record 
   in writing that applicants for supplemental nutrition assistance 
 benefits have signed an application through a recorded verbal assent 
                          over the telephone.

    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 ``Streamlining Nutrition Assistance 
Paperwork Act of 2021'' or the ``SNAP Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT.

    Section 11(e)(2)(C)(iii)(I) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 
(7 U.S.C. 2020(e)(2)(C)(iii)(I)) is amended by inserting ``as audio or 
in writing'' after ``record''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION OF AMENDMENT.

    (a)  Effective Date.--This Act, and the amendment made by this Act, 
shall take effect on January 1, 2023.
    (b) Application of Amendment.--The amendment made by section 2 
shall apply with respect to applications made after the effective date 
of this Act.
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