Sec. 4115. Hot foods
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Section 17 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2026 ) (as amended by section 4108(b)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following: Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall conduct, and make publicly available a report describing the results of, a study that assesses the potential impacts to the supplemental nutrition assistance program of a statutory change to the definition of the term food in section 3 that would— include hot foods and hot food products ready for immediate consumption at retail food stores authorized to participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program; and exclude hot foods and hot food products ready for immediate consumption from the definition of the term staple food in that section.
The study under paragraph
(1)shall include an assessment of— the types of hot and prepared foods that would be available at authorized retail food stores (including co-located entities at those retail food stores) for purchase using supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits, for different types of authorized retail food stores; of the total gross sales of an authorized retail food store, the percentage of sales of hot and prepared foods not intended for home preparation or home consumption, for different types of authorized retail food stores; the potential impact of the statutory change described in paragraph
(1)on retail food store eligibility under section 278.1(b)(1)(i)(A) of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation); and any other considerations, as determined by the Secretary. After the report described in paragraph
(1)is made publicly available, the Secretary— may conduct not more than 5 pilot projects designed to test the effectiveness and efficiency of supplemental nutrition assistance program changes to allow households to purchase hot and prepared foods using benefits; and shall make publicly available a report describing the results of each pilot project conducted under subparagraph (A). .
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