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S 2359 116th Congress Senate Agriculture and Food Bank accounts, deposits, capital Employee benefits and pensions Financial services and investments Food assistance and relief

A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require consideration of the assets of a household for broad-based categorical eligibility for the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Introduced: July 31, 2019 Introduced by: Kennedy, John Republican · Louisiana See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Jul 31, 2019
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill revises eligibility requirements under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) to require certain household assets (e.g., available cash, stock, savings bonds, mutual funds) to be considered when making a categorical eligibility determination for SNAP benefits.

What's happening now July 31, 2019

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

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2359: A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require consideration of the assets of a household for broad-based categorical eligibility for the supplemental nutrition assistance program.. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-2359/
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"S. 2359: A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require consideration of the assets of a household for broad-based categorical eligibility for the supplemental nutrition assistance program.." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-2359/.
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S. 2359, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-2359/.
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[S. 2359: A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require consideration of the assets of a household for broad-based categorical eligibility for the supplemental nutrition assistance program.](https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-2359/)
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