Requires the department of social services to apply for a waiver or request authorization to create a list of healthy and nutritious foods and beverages that may be purchased with supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) benefits.
Urging Governor Meyer To Submit A Waiver Request To The United States Department Of Agriculture To Prohibit The Use Of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (snap) Benefits For The Purchase Of Candy And Soda In Order To Advance Nutritional Goals And Improve Public Health Outcomes.
Relating to incentives for using supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to purchase nutritious foods.
Urging the United States Congress to amend the list of allowable foods under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to eliminate sweetened drinks and snack foods of minimal nutritional value.
"New Jersey Healthy SNAP Act"; requires DHS to submit waiver to federal government to prohibit purchase of soft drinks with SNAP benefits.
"New Jersey Healthy SNAP Act"; requires DHS to submit waiver to federal government to prohibit purchase of soft drinks with SNAP benefits.
Limits types of food purchases with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits
Prohibit Use of SNAP Benefits to Purchase Soft Drinks and Noncarbonated Beverages with Equivalent Nutritional Value
Provides that applicants for or recipients of SNAP benefits shall not be subjected to finger imaging as a requirement of the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
Memorializes the United States Congress and the United States Department of Agriculture to grant Louisiana a waiver to remove unhealthy foods from the list of approved foods that may be purchased with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits