To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to modify the eligibility disqualification for certain convicted felons.

Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to strike a provision that allows individuals convicted of felonies that would otherwise disqualify them from receiving benefits under the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) to still receive benefits unless they also: failed to comply with the terms of the sentence; fled to avoid prosecution, custody, or confinement; or violated a condition of probation or parole.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5642 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5642

 To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to modify the eligibility 
             disqualification for certain convicted felons.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 18, 2014

   Mr. Reed introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to modify the eligibility 
             disqualification for certain convicted felons.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 6(r)(1) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
201(r)(1)) is amended--
            (1) by striking subparagraph (B),
            (2) in subparagraph (A)--
                    (A) in clause (v) by striking ``clause (i), (ii), 
                or (iii)'' and inserting ``subparagraph (A), (B), or 
                (C)'', and
                    (B) by redesignating clauses (i), (ii), (iii), 
                (iv), and (v) as subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), (D), and 
                (E), respectively,
            (3) by striking ``if_(A)'' and inserting ``if'', and
            (4) by moving the left margin of subparagraphs (A), (B), 
        (C), (D), and (E), as so redesignated, 2 ems to the left.
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