2015 US Code
Title 7 - Agriculture (Sections 1 - 9097)
Chapter 51 - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Sections 2011 - 2036c)
Sec. 2036c - Annual State report on verification of SNAP participation
Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 3, Title 7 - AGRICULTURE |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 7 - AGRICULTURE CHAPTER 51 - SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM Sec. 2036c - Annual State report on verification of SNAP participation |
Contains | section 2036c |
Date | 2015 |
Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 3, 2016 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Pub. L. 113-79, title IV, §4032, Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 817. |
Statutes at Large References | 78 Stat. 703 128 Stat. 817 |
Public and Private Laws | Public Law 88-525, Public Law 113-79 |
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Not later than 1 year after the date specified by the Secretary during the 180-day period beginning on February 7, 2014, and annually thereafter, each State agency that carries out the supplemental nutrition assistance program established under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) shall submit to the Secretary a report containing sufficient information for the Secretary to determine whether the State agency has, for the most recently concluded fiscal year preceding that annual date, verified that the State agency in that fiscal year—
(1) did not issue benefits to a deceased individual; and
(2) did not issue benefits to an individual who had been permanently disqualified from receiving benefits.
(b) Penalty for noncomplianceFor any fiscal year for which a State agency fails to comply with subsection (a), the Secretary shall impose a penalty that includes a reduction of up to 50 percent of the amount that would be otherwise payable to the State agency under section 16(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2025(a)) with respect to that fiscal year.
(c) Report of pilot program to test prevention of duplicate participationNot later than 90 days after the completion in multiple States of a temporary pilot program to test the detection and prevention of duplicate participation by beneficiaries of the supplemental nutrition assistance program established under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report assessing the feasibility, effectiveness, and cost for the expansion of the pilot program nationwide.
(Pub. L. 113–79, title IV, §4032, Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 817.)
REFERENCES IN TEXTThe Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (c), is Pub. L. 88–525, Aug. 31, 1964, 78 Stat. 703, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2011 of this title and Tables.
CODIFICATIONSection was enacted as part of the Agricultural Act of 2014, and not as part of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 which comprises this chapter.
DEFINITION OF "SECRETARY""Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture, see section 9001 of this title.
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