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| 2 | 2 | | Introduced Version |
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| 3 | 3 | | SENATE BILL No. 161 |
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| 4 | 4 | | _____ |
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| 5 | 5 | | DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL |
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| 6 | 6 | | Citations Affected: IC 12-13-14-13; IC 16-35-1.5-8. |
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| 7 | 7 | | Synopsis: Acceptance of WIC/SNAP at farmers' markets. Requires a |
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| 8 | 8 | | farmers' market administrator or representative who is responsible for |
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| 9 | 9 | | managing a farmers' market that has qualified retailers to accept |
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| 10 | 10 | | electronic benefit transfer (EBT) payments and coupons from |
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| 11 | 11 | | participants in the following food assistance programs: (1) The federal |
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| 12 | 12 | | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). (2) The women, |
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| 13 | 13 | | infants, and children nutrition program (WIC). (3) The WIC farmers' |
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| 14 | 14 | | market nutrition program (FMNP). |
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| 15 | 15 | | Effective: July 1, 2022. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Yoder |
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| 17 | 17 | | January 4, 2022, read first time and referred to Committee on Family and Children |
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| 18 | 18 | | Services. |
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| 19 | 19 | | 2022 IN 161—LS 6516/DI 77 Introduced |
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| 20 | 20 | | Second Regular Session of the 122nd General Assembly (2022) |
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| 21 | 21 | | PRINTING CODE. Amendments: Whenever an existing statute (or a section of the Indiana |
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| 22 | 22 | | Constitution) is being amended, the text of the existing provision will appear in this style type, |
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| 23 | 23 | | additions will appear in this style type, and deletions will appear in this style type. |
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| 24 | 24 | | Additions: Whenever a new statutory provision is being enacted (or a new constitutional |
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| 25 | 25 | | provision adopted), the text of the new provision will appear in this style type. Also, the |
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| 26 | 26 | | word NEW will appear in that style type in the introductory clause of each SECTION that adds |
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| 27 | 27 | | a new provision to the Indiana Code or the Indiana Constitution. |
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| 28 | 28 | | Conflict reconciliation: Text in a statute in this style type or this style type reconciles conflicts |
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| 29 | 29 | | between statutes enacted by the 2021 Regular Session of the General Assembly. |
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| 30 | 30 | | SENATE BILL No. 161 |
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| 31 | 31 | | A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning |
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| 32 | 32 | | human services. |
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| 33 | 33 | | Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana: |
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| 34 | 34 | | 1 SECTION 1. IC 12-13-14-13, AS AMENDED BY P.L.13-2013, |
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| 35 | 35 | | 2 SECTION 45, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE |
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| 36 | 36 | | 3 JULY 1, 2022]: Sec. 13. (a) The division shall implement a program |
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| 37 | 37 | | 4 that provides a farmers' market administrator or a retailer who sells |
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| 38 | 38 | | 5 food at a farmers' market with a wired or wireless point of sale terminal |
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| 39 | 39 | | 6 that is connected to the EBT system. |
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| 40 | 40 | | 7 (b) A farmers' market administrator or representative who is |
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| 41 | 41 | | 8 responsible for managing a farmers' market that has retailers who: |
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| 42 | 42 | | 9 (1) sell food that qualifies for sale under the EBT program; |
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| 43 | 43 | | 10 and |
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| 44 | 44 | | 11 (2) meet the requirements of IC 16-42-5-29; |
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| 45 | 45 | | 12 shall operate a wired or wireless point of sale terminal that is |
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| 46 | 46 | | 13 connected to the EBT system to allow SNAP participants to |
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| 47 | 47 | | 14 purchase eligible food. |
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| 48 | 48 | | 15 (c) Nothing in subsection (b) prohibits a retailer at a farmers' |
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| 49 | 49 | | 16 market from operating the retailer's own wired or wireless point |
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| 50 | 50 | | 17 of sale terminal that is connected to the EBT system. |
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| 51 | 51 | | 2022 IN 161—LS 6516/DI 77 2 |
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| 52 | 52 | | 1 SECTION 2. IC 16-35-1.5-8 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE |
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| 53 | 53 | | 2 AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY |
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| 54 | 54 | | 3 1, 2022]: Sec. 8. (a) A farmers' market administrator or |
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| 55 | 55 | | 4 representative who is responsible for managing a farmers' market |
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| 56 | 56 | | 5 that has the minimum number of WIC approved retailers who: |
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| 57 | 57 | | 6 (1) sell food that qualifies for sale under the: |
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| 58 | 58 | | 7 (A) WIC program; or |
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| 59 | 59 | | 8 (B) WIC farmers' market nutrition program (FMNP); and |
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| 60 | 60 | | 9 (2) meet the requirements of IC 16-42-5-29; |
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| 61 | 61 | | 10 shall accept farmers' market nutrition program coupons and |
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| 62 | 62 | | 11 operate a wired or wireless point of sale terminal that accepts a |
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| 63 | 63 | | 12 food instrument to allow WIC participants to purchase eligible |
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| 64 | 64 | | 13 food. |
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| 65 | 65 | | 14 (b) Nothing in subsection (a) prohibits a retailer at a farmers' |
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| 66 | 66 | | 15 market from accepting farmers' market nutrition program |
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| 67 | 67 | | 16 coupons or operating the retailer's own wired or wireless point of |
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| 68 | 68 | | 17 sale terminal that accepts a food instrument. |
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| 69 | 69 | | 2022 IN 161—LS 6516/DI 77 |
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