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S 1708 115th Congress Senate Agriculture and Food Administrative remedies Aging Disability and paralysis Food assistance and relief Higher education

A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide that certain students who are family caregivers are eligible to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Introduced: August 2, 2017 Introduced by: Gillibrand, Kirsten E. Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Aug 2, 2017
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make certain students who are informal providers of in-home and community care to elderly or disabled members of the household eligible to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program).

What's happening now August 2, 2017

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1708: A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide that certain students who are family caregivers are eligible to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1708/
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"S. 1708: A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide that certain students who are family caregivers are eligible to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1708/.
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S. 1708, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1708/.
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[S. 1708: A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide that certain students who are family caregivers are eligible to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.](https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1708/)
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