Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “SNAP Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2017”.
SNAP Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2017
A BILL
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make certain multivitamin-mineral dietary supplements eligible for purchase with supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Multivitamin-mineral dietary supplements eligible for purchase with supplemental nutrition assistance benefits
Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012) is amended—
in subsection (k), by—
striking “and (9)” and inserting “(9)”; and
inserting before the period at the end the following: “, and (10) a multivitamin-mineral dietary supplement for home consumption”;
by inserting after subsection (m) the following:
“(m–1) “Multivitamin-mineral dietary supplement” means a substance that—
“(1) provides at least half of the vitamins and minerals for which the National Academy of Medicine establishes dietary reference intakes, at 50 percent or more of the daily value for the intended life stage per daily serving as determined by the Food and Drug Administration; and
“(2) does not exceed the tolerable upper intake levels for those nutrients for which an established tolerable upper intake level is determined by the National Academy of Medicine.”
in subsection (q)(2), by striking “and spices” and inserting “spices, and multivitamin-mineral dietary supplements”.