US Congress House Bill 4881 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Introduced on March 23 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-03-31 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
Pending: House Nutrition Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Healthy Food Choices Act of 2016 This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to apply nutritional standards for the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to foods purchased for USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program), with the addition of: meat, fish, and poultry; beans, soups, and immature varieties of legumes (such as those used in canned green peas, green beans, snap beans, yellow beans, and wax beans); and baked beans with meat. (Foods purchased for WIC must: (1) contain nutrients determined by nutritional research to be lacking in the diets of pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, infants, or children; or (2) promote the health of the population served by the program.)

Healthy Food Choices Act of 2016

Rep. David Roe [R-TN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-31	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
2016-03-23	House	Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
2016-03-23	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4881/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr4881/BILLS-114hr4881ih.pdf