S 2723
115th Congress
Senate
Agriculture and Food
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Child safety and welfare
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SNAP for Kids Act of 2018
Introduced: April 19, 2018
Introduced by:
Gillibrand, Kirsten E.
Democratic
· New York
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 19, 2018
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Apr 19, 2018
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
SNAP for Kids Act of 2018
This bill modifies the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) to (1) increase benefits for certain small households with children who are 5-17 years old, and (2) require benefits for the households to be calculated using the low-cost food plan.
The "low-cost food plan" is the diet required to feed a family of 4, consisting of a man and a woman 19-50 years old, a child 6-8 years old, and a child 9-11 years old, at a cost that is in the second quartile of food expenditures for those families in the United States.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Committees of jurisdiction
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