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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 205
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide for the reissuance
to households supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to re-
place benefits stolen by identity theft or typical skimming practices,
and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY9, 2023
Mr. R
UPPERSBERGER (for himself and Mr. FITZPATRICK) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide
for the reissuance to households supplemental nutrition
assistance program benefits to replace benefits stolen
by identity theft or typical skimming practices, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘SNAP Theft Protec-4
tion Act of 2023’’. 5
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SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS. 1
Section 7 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 2
U.S.C. 2016) is amended— 3
(1) in subsection (e) by inserting ‘‘or from the 4
reissuance of benefits stolen by identity theft or typ-5
ical skimming practices,’’ after ‘‘mail’’, and 6
(2) in subsection (h)(7)— 7
(A) by striking ‘‘Regulations’’ and insert-8
ing the following: 9
‘‘(A) R
EPLACEMENT OF BENEFITS .—Reg-10
ulations’’, and 11
(B) by adding at end the following: 12
‘‘(B) R
EISSUANCE OF STOLEN BENE -13
FITS.— 14
‘‘(i) I
SSUANCE OF REGULATIONS .— 15
Secretary shall issue regulations— 16
‘‘(I) to establish criteria for State 17
agencies to identify supplemental nu-18
trition assistance program benefits 19
stolen by identity theft or typical 20
skimming practices; and 21
‘‘(II) to provide for the 22
reissuance to households of benefits 23
stolen by identity theft, or typical 24
skimming practices, that meet such 25
criteria. 26
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‘‘(ii) STATUS REPORT .—Not later 1
than 240 days after the Secretary issues 2
regulations under clause (i), the Secretary 3
shall submit to the Congress a report on 4
the status of benefits reissued under such 5
regulations that includes— 6
‘‘(I) a detailed description of the 7
prevalence of stolen benefits for which 8
benefits are reissued under such regu-9
lations; 10
‘‘(II) an examination of current 11
barriers, feasibility, and impact on 12
participant access and ease of use in 13
developing an electronic benefit trans-14
fer card that contains innovative tech-15
nologies such as an embedded 16
microchip along with the traditional 17
magnetic stripe; and 18
‘‘(III) such other information as 19
by the Secretary considers to be ap-20
propriate. 21
‘‘(iii) S
TOLEN BENEFIT REISSUANCE 22
REPORT.—Not later than 120 days after 23
end of each fiscal year that begins after 24
the Secretary issues regulations under 25
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clause (i), the Secretary shall submit to the 1
Congress a report for such fiscal year with 2
respect to each State that includes the ag-3
gregate value of supplemental nutrition as-4
sistance program benefits reissued under 5
such regulations and the number of house-6
holds to which such benefits were reissued. 7
‘‘(iv) E
VALUATION.—To maximize the 8
accessibility and security of electronic ben-9
efit transfer cards, the Secretary shall pe-10
riodically review and modify such regula-11
tions to take into account evolving tech-12
nology and the threat landscape to better 13
protect against benefit theft.’’. 14
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