Florida Senate - 2023                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SM 814
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/13/2023           .                                
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       The Committee on Agriculture (Gruters) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the resolving clause
    4  and insert:
    5         That the United States Department of Agriculture is
    6  requested to perform a study on the foods typically purchased by
    7  users of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
    8         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of State dispatch
    9  copies of this memorial to the Secretary of the United States
   10  Department of Agriculture, the President of the United States,
   11  the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the
   12  United States House of Representatives, and each member of the
   13  Florida delegation to the United States Congress.
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   15  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   16  And the title is amended as follows:
   17         Delete everything before the resolving clause
   18  and insert:
   19                           Senate Memorial                         
   20         A memorial to the United States Department of
   21         Agriculture, requesting the department to perform a
   22         study on the foods typically purchased by users of the
   23         Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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   25         WHEREAS, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
   26  (SNAP) offers nutrition assistance to eligible low-income
   27  individuals and families in the form of funds to purchase
   28  eligible food, and
   29         WHEREAS, The Food and Nutrition Service under the United
   30  States Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers SNAP, and
   31  the Florida Department of Children and Families distributes the
   32  benefits, and
   33         WHEREAS, SNAP benefits may be used to purchase any food
   34  product intended for human consumption, but may not be used to
   35  purchase alcoholic beverages, tobacco, hot foods, and hot food
   36  products prepared for immediate consumption, and
   37         WHEREAS, the last study administered by the USDA to
   38  identify foods typically purchased by SNAP households was
   39  conducted using point-of-sale data from 2011, information that
   40  is over a decade old, and
   41         WHEREAS, relevant and recent data is needed to identify the
   42  foods typically purchased by SNAP households, NOW, THEREFORE,