Beginning on May 5, 2017, in fiscal year 2017 and each fiscal year hereafter, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a household certified to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is required to report in a manner prescribed by the Secretary if the household no longer resides in the State in which it is certified.
7 U.S.C. § 2014a
EDITORIAL NOTES
CODIFICATIONSection was enacted as part of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and also as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017, and not as part of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 which comprises this chapter.
- Household
- "Household" means-(A) an individual who lives alone or who, while living with others, customarily purchases food and prepares meals for home consumption separate and apart from the others; or(B) a group of individuals who live together and customarily purchase food and prepare meals together for home consumption.
- Secretary
- "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture.
- State
- "State" means the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and the reservations of an Indian tribe whose tribal organization meets the requirements of this chapter for participation as a State agency.
- Supplemental nutrition assistance program
- "Supplemental nutrition assistance program" means the program operated pursuant to this chapter.