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S 1133 104th Congress Senate Agriculture and Food Dietary supplements Food stamps Public assistance programs Social Welfare Vitamins

A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to permit participating households to use food stamp benefits to purchase nutritional supplements of vitamins, minerals, or vitamins and minerals, and for…

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A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to permit participating households to use food stamp benefits to purchase nutritional supplements of vitamins, minerals, or vitamins and minerals, and for other purposes.

Introduced: August 9, 1995 Introduced by: McConnell, Mitch Republican · Kentucky See on congress.gov
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Aug 9, 1995
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Aug 9, 1995
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12080)
Aug 9, 1995
Introduced in Senate
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Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to permit food stamp program participants to use food stamps to buy vitamin and mineral nutritional supplements.

What's happening now August 9, 1995

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1133: A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to permit participating households to use food stamp benefits to purchase nutritional supplements of vitamins, minerals, or vitamins and minerals, and for other purposes.. 104th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/104-S-1133/
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"S. 1133: A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to permit participating households to use food stamp benefits to purchase nutritional supplements of vitamins, minerals, or vitamins and minerals, and for other purposes.." 104th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/104-S-1133/.
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S. 1133, 104th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/104-S-1133/.
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