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Relating to the federal summer electronic benefits transfer for children program, making an appropriation, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions
Topics:State budgetHealth care
Same legislation: SF 2039
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2024
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to the summer electronic benefits transfer (EBT) for children program made permanent by federal law under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, administered by the United States department of agriculture (USDA) food and nutrition service. The bill includes findings relating to food insecurity in the state including that it is estimated that approximately 240,000 children would be eligible to receive benefits under the summer EBT for children program; that when Iowans are struggling financially, they are more likely to buy less expensive foods, high in calories and low in nutritional value; and that the summer EBT for children program would provide an estimated $29 million to address the food insecurity crisis which not only feeds children but stimulates local economic activity.
Read the full explanation
The bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS), in coordination with the department of education, to immediately upon the effective date of the bill submit a letter of intent to apply for and participate in the summer EBT program for children during summer 2024, to coordinate with the USDA to develop a successful management and administration plan for the summer EBT program for children, and to submit the plan to the USDA by February 15, 2024. The bill appropriates from the general fund of the state to HHS for fiscal year 2023-2024 a sufficient amount to cover the costs of administering the summer EBT program for children during summer 2024. The bill takes effect upon enactment and is retroactively applicable to July 1, 2023.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
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- HF 152 Relating to the federal summer electronic benefits transfer for children program, making a…91st General Assembly · In committeeNearly identical
- SF 326 Relating to the federal summer electronic benefits transfer for children program (SUN buck…91st General Assembly · In committeeVery similar
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