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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 302 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to improve the calculation |
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| 6 | 6 | | and reduce the taxpayer cost of payment errors under the supplemental |
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| 7 | 7 | | nutrition assistance program, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY29, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. E |
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| 11 | 11 | | RNST(for herself, Mrs. BRITT, and Mr. GRASSLEY) introduced the fol- |
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| 12 | 12 | | lowing bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agri- |
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| 13 | 13 | | culture, Nutrition, and Forestry |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to improve |
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| 16 | 16 | | the calculation and reduce the taxpayer cost of payment |
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| 17 | 17 | | errors under the supplemental nutrition assistance pro- |
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| 18 | 18 | | gram, and for other purposes. |
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| 19 | 19 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 20 | 20 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Snap Back Inaccurate 4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SNAP Payments Act’’. 5 |
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| 25 | 25 | | kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB 2 |
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| 26 | 26 | | •S 302 IS |
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| 27 | 27 | | SEC. 2. QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM TOLERANCE LEVEL 1 |
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| 28 | 28 | | FOR EXCLUDING SMALL ERRORS. 2 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Section 16(c) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 3 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (7 U.S.C. 2025(c)) is amended— 4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (1) in paragraph (1)— 5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (A) in subparagraph (A)(ii)— 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (i) in subclause (I), by striking ‘‘and’’ 7 |
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| 34 | 34 | | at the end; 8 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (ii) in subclause (II)— 9 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (I) by inserting ‘‘through fiscal 10 |
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| 37 | 37 | | year 2024’’ after ‘‘thereafter’’; and 11 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (II) by striking the period at the 12 |
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| 39 | 39 | | end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 13 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (iii) by adding at the end the fol-14 |
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| 41 | 41 | | lowing: 15 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ‘‘(III) for fiscal year 2025 and 16 |
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| 43 | 43 | | each fiscal year thereafter, $0.’’; 17 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (B) in subparagraph (C)— 18 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (i) in the matter preceding clause (i), 19 |
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| 46 | 46 | | by striking ‘‘may’’ and inserting ‘‘shall’’; 20 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (ii) in clause (ii)(I), by inserting ‘‘, as 21 |
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| 48 | 48 | | adjusted under subparagraph (H), if appli-22 |
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| 49 | 49 | | cable’’ after ‘‘agency’’; and 23 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (iii) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘10’’ 24 |
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| 51 | 51 | | and inserting ‘‘25’’; and 25 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (C) by adding at the end the following: 26 |
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| 55 | 55 | | •S 302 IS |
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| 56 | 56 | | ‘‘(H) REDUCTION OF PAYMENT ERROR 1 |
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| 57 | 57 | | RATE BASED ON PERCENTAGE OF OVERPAY -2 |
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| 58 | 58 | | MENTS RECOUPED .—In determining the liabil-3 |
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| 59 | 59 | | ity amount of a State agency under subpara-4 |
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| 60 | 60 | | graph (C) for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal 5 |
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| 61 | 61 | | year thereafter, the payment error rate de-6 |
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| 62 | 62 | | scribed in clause (ii)(I) of that subparagraph 7 |
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| 63 | 63 | | shall be equal to the product obtained by multi-8 |
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| 64 | 64 | | plying— 9 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ‘‘(i) the payment error rate of the 10 |
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| 66 | 66 | | State agency for that fiscal year; and 11 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ‘‘(ii) the percentage of the total 12 |
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| 68 | 68 | | amount of overpayments of benefits made 13 |
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| 69 | 69 | | by the State agency that are not recouped 14 |
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| 70 | 70 | | by the State agency under paragraph (9) 15 |
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| 71 | 71 | | for that fiscal year.’’; 16 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (2) by redesignating paragraph (9) as para-17 |
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| 73 | 73 | | graph (10); and 18 |
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| 74 | 74 | | (3) by inserting after paragraph (8) the fol-19 |
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| 75 | 75 | | lowing: 20 |
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| 76 | 76 | | ‘‘(9) R |
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| 77 | 77 | | ECOUPMENT OF OVERPAYMENTS .—Each 21 |
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| 78 | 78 | | State agency shall seek to recoup any overpayments 22 |
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| 79 | 79 | | of benefits made to benefit recipients.’’. 23 |
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