[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7026 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7026

   To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require States to 
  include a photograph on electronic benefit cards issued to provide 
          supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 9, 2022

 Mr. Grothman 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 require States to 
  include a photograph on electronic benefit cards issued to provide 
          supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits.

    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 ``ID for EBT Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 7(h)(9) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2016(h)(9)) is amended--
            (1) in the heading by striking ``Optional'' and inserting 
        ``Mandatory'';
            (2) in subparagraph (A) by striking ``may'' and inserting 
        ``shall''; and
            (3) in subparagraph (B) by striking ``If'' and all that 
        follows through ``(A), the'' and inserting ``The''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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