Sec. 2. Streamlining applications for farmers
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In this section: The term covered nutrition program means— the supplemental nutrition assistance program established under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq. ); the senior farmers’ market nutrition program established under section 4402 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 ( 7 U.S.C. 3007 ); the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children established by section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 ( 42 U.S.C. 1786 ), including the farmers' market nutrition program under that program; and the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program established under section 4405 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 7517 ), as practicable with respect to the activities carried out by the Secretary under subsections
(b)and (c). The term Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture. The Secretary shall establish a streamlined application process— for direct marketing farmers and ranchers to apply to be vendors under each of the covered nutrition programs; and by— developing a single application that a direct marketing farmer or rancher may use to apply to each of the covered nutrition programs; or developing an information sharing system that— shares the information of a direct marketing farmer or rancher who is approved as an authorized vendor under a covered nutrition program with each of the other covered nutrition programs; and deems that direct marketing farmer or rancher as a prequalified eligible vendor for those other covered nutrition programs. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives a report describing progress made in carrying out paragraph (1). The Secretary shall establish a streamlined process for direct marketing farmers and ranchers that are vendors under any of the covered nutrition programs to process benefits under those programs through the use of standardized technology, such as a single piece of equipment or a mobile application.
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