[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 497 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 497

    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

                           February 16, 2023

 Ms. Duckworth (for herself, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. King, Mr. Blumenthal, 
 Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Warnock, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Welch, Ms. Baldwin, Ms. 
Klobuchar, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Booker, Mr. Fetterman, Mr. Tester, and Mrs. 
    Murray) 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Military Family Nutrition Access Act 
of 2023''.

SEC. 2. 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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