Bill Text: TX HB3204 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to vendor requirements under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-24 - Placed on intent calendar [HB3204 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3204-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Raymond (Senate Sponsor - Uresti) | H.B. No. 3204 | |
| (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 2017; | ||
| May 16, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & | ||
| Human Services; May 22, 2017, reported favorably by the following | ||
| vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 22, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to vendor requirements under the Special Supplemental | ||
| Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 1001, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 1001.089 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 1001.089. VENDOR REQUIREMENTS FOR WOMEN, INFANTS, AND | ||
| CHILDREN PROGRAM. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Predominantly WIC program vendor" means an | ||
| individual store that: | ||
| (A) operates and transacts approved WIC program | ||
| food items at a fixed location; and | ||
| (B) has or is expected to have sales of approved | ||
| WIC program food items to WIC program benefits recipients that | ||
| exceed 50 percent of the store's total sales of food items eligible | ||
| for purchase under the supplemental nutrition assistance program | ||
| under Chapter 33, Human Resources Code. | ||
| (2) "WIC program" means the federal special | ||
| supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children | ||
| authorized by 42 U.S.C. Section 1786. | ||
| (b) If federal funding for the WIC program is accepted by | ||
| the state, the state shall include as authorized vendors | ||
| predominantly WIC program vendors that meet all other vendor | ||
| requirements established by federal and state WIC program laws and | ||
| regulations. | ||
| (c) The state may not impose requirements for a | ||
| predominantly WIC program vendor that are outside the scope of the | ||
| WIC program, including requirements relating to: | ||
| (1) vendor hours of operation; | ||
| (2) inventory stocking of food items other than | ||
| approved WIC program food items; or | ||
| (3) restrictions on opening, closing, or relocating a | ||
| store. | ||
| (d) If a change in ownership of a predominantly WIC program | ||
| vendor occurs, the new owner, in applying for a new vendor | ||
| agreement, is subject to the same vendor requirements as | ||
| predominantly WIC program vendors with existing vendor agreements. | ||
| (e) This section may not be interpreted to expand the WIC | ||
| program in this state in any manner. | ||
| SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
| a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
| federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
| the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
| authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
| waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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