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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 1202 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to permit supplemental |
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| 6 | 6 | | nutrition assistance program benefits to be used to purchase additional |
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| 7 | 7 | | types of food items. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | MARCH31, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. B |
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| 11 | 11 | | ENNET(for himself, Mr. PADILLA, Mr. HICKENLOOPER, Mr. VANHOL- |
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| 12 | 12 | | LEN, Mr. WELCH, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. FETTERMAN, |
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| 13 | 13 | | Mr. B |
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| 14 | 14 | | LUMENTHAL, and Mr. MARKEY) introduced the following bill; which |
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| 15 | 15 | | was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, |
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| 16 | 16 | | and Forestry |
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| 17 | 17 | | A BILL |
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| 18 | 18 | | To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to permit |
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| 19 | 19 | | supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to be |
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| 20 | 20 | | used to purchase additional types of food items. |
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| 21 | 21 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 22 | 22 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 24 | 24 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Hot Foods Act of 4 |
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| 25 | 25 | | 2025’’. 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •S 1202 IS |
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| 29 | 29 | | SEC. 2. HOT FOOD UNDER SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION AS-1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | SISTANCE PROGRAM. 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | U.S.C. 2012) is amended— 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (1) in subsection (k)(1), by striking ‘‘consump-5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | tion except alcoholic beverages, tobacco, hot foods or 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | hot food products ready for immediate consumption 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | other than those authorized pursuant to clauses (3), 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (4), (5), (7), (8), and (9) of this subsection’’ and in-9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | serting ‘‘consumption, including hot foods or hot 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | food products ready for immediate consumption and 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | excluding alcoholic beverages, tobacco’’; 12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (2) in subsection (o)(1)— 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (A), by striking ‘‘and consumption’’ and insert-15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ing ‘‘or home or immediate consumption’’; and 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (B) in subparagraph (A)— 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (i) by striking the subparagraph des-18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ignation and all that follows through ‘‘of-19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | fers’’ and inserting the following: 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ‘‘(A)(i) offers’’; 21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (ii) in clause (i) (as so designated), by 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | striking ‘‘or’’ at the end and inserting 23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | ‘‘and’’; and 24 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (iii) by adding at the end the fol-25 |
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| 54 | 54 | | lowing: 26 |
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| 58 | 58 | | ‘‘(ii) of which not more than 50 percent of 1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | the total gross sales are from hot foods or hot 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | food products ready for immediate consump-3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | tion; or’’; and 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (3) in subsection (q)(2)— 5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (A) by striking ‘‘include accessory’’ and in-6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | serting the following: ‘‘include— 7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ‘‘(A) accessory’’; 8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (B) in subparagraph (A) (as so des-9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ignated), by striking the period at the end and 10 |
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| 68 | 68 | | inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 11 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (C) by adding at the end the following: 12 |
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| 70 | 70 | | ‘‘(B) hot foods or hot food products ready 13 |
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| 71 | 71 | | for immediate consumption.’’. 14 |
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