[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3806 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3806

  To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to improve the cost of 
    living adjustment exclusion from income under the supplemental 
         nutrition assistance program, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 27, 2024

 Mr. Welch (for himself, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. 
    Markey) 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 improve the cost of 
    living adjustment exclusion from income 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 ``COLAs Don't Count Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSION FROM INCOME.

    Section 5(d) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2014(d)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (12), by striking ``July 1'' and inserting 
        ``January 1'';
            (2) in paragraph (18), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (3) by redesignating paragraph (19) as paragraph (20); and
            (4) by inserting after paragraph (18) the following:
            ``(19) supplementary payments of the type described in 
        section 1616(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
        1382e(a)); and''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on 
October 1, 2024.
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