Healthy Food Choices Act of 2016
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (Mar 23, 2016)
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.)
What just happenedMar 31, 2016
Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseMar 23, 2016
- Mar 31, 2016Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture - Mar 23, 2016IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Agriculture Committee - Mar 23, 2016IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Mar 23, 2016IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House