US Congress House Bill 4142 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)
Status: Introduced on March 4 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-04-01 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Nutrition.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Nutrition Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

No Welfare for Weed Act of 2014 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to exclude marijuana products from the definition of food which may be purchased under the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly the food stamp program). Preserving Welfare for Needs Not Weed Act - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require a state receiving a TANF grant to maintain policies and practices necessary to prevent assistance under the TANF program from being used in any electronic benefit transfer (via a card) at any establishment that offers marijuana for sale.

No Welfare for Weed Act of 2014

Rep. Paul Gosar [R-AZ]	Rep. Paul Cook [R-CA]	Rep. John Duncan [R-TN]	Rep. John Fleming [R-LA]
Rep. Trent Franks [R-AZ]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]	Rep. Doug LaMalfa [R-CA]
Rep. Alan Nunnelee [R-MS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-04-01	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Nutrition.
2014-03-04	House	Referred to House Agriculture
2014-03-04	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2014-03-04	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

HB4137 (Related) 2014-09-17 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4142/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr4142/BILLS-113hr4142ih.pdf