[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3781 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3781

    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.


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                   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

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                                 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.

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

SECTION 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.''.
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