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HR 4881 114th Congress House

Healthy Food Choices Act of 2016

Official title: To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require that supplemental nutrition assistance benefits be used to purchase supplemental foods that are eligible… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require that supplemental nutrition assistance benefits be used to purchase supplemental foods that are eligible for purchase under section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (commonly known as the WIC program) and certain additional foods.

Introduced: March 23, 2016 See on congress.gov
Agriculture and Food Food assistance and reliefFruit and vegetablesMeatNutrition and diet
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Mar 31, 2016
Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
Mar 23, 2016
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Mar 23, 2016
Introduced in House
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 Latest action March 31, 2016

Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Healthy Food Choices Act of 2016

This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to apply nutritional standards for the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to foods purchased for USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program), with the addition of:

  • meat, fish, and poultry;
  • beans, soups, and immature varieties of legumes (such as those used in canned green peas, green beans, snap beans, yellow beans, and wax beans); and
  • baked beans with meat.

(Foods purchased for WIC must: (1) contain nutrients determined by nutritional research to be lacking in the diets of pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, infants, or children; or (2) promote the health of the population served by the program.)

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4881: Healthy Food Choices Act of 2016. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-4881/
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"H.R. 4881: Healthy Food Choices Act of 2016." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-4881/.
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H.R. 4881, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-4881/.
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