[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2536 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2536

 To require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide training materials 
for the use of health care professionals to inform their patients about 
     the availability of benefits under the supplemental nutrition 
              assistance program, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 26, 2023

 Mr. Lujan (for himself and Mr. Welch) 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 require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide training materials 
for the use of health care professionals to inform their patients about 
     the availability of benefits under the supplemental nutrition 
              assistance program, 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 ``Nurses Utilizing Resources for SNAP 
Education Act of 2023'' or the ``NURSE Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. SNAP TRAINING MATERIALS FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS.

    (a) Definition of Health Care Professional.--In this section, the 
term ``health care professional'' means an individual licensed, 
registered, or certified under Federal or State law to provide health 
care services.
    (b) Training Materials.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall--
            (1) develop and make available materials designed to train 
        health care professionals to inform their patients about the 
        availability of benefits under the supplemental nutrition 
        assistance program established under the Food and Nutrition Act 
        of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.); and
            (2) perform outreach to hospitals, universities, nursing 
        associations, and similar entities to ensure that health care 
        professionals are aware of the availability of those materials.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act shall take effect on January 31, 2023.
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