Expanding Access to Emergency Meals Act
This bill makes an exception to the prohibition on duplication of assistance during a major disaster or emergency for any person who is or may be entitled to receive nutrition assistance through a program administered by the Department of Agriculture (USDA). Thus, individuals participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and other USDA nutrition programs may also participate in feeding programs funded using Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) public assistance funds.
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
  Assistance Act to ensure food assistance during a major disaster or 
                   emergency declared under such Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Expanding Access to Emergency Meals 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXCEPTION TO DUPLICATION OF BENEFITS.

    Section 312(b) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5155(b)) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
            ``(5) Exception to prohibition on duplication of 
        assistance.--During the period of a major disaster or emergency 
        declared under this Act, this section shall not prohibit the 
        provision of Federal assistance under this Act to any person 
        who is or may be entitled to receive nutrition assistance 
        through a program administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
        and receipt of such assistance shall not be considered 
        duplicative assistance, except that a person receiving benefits 
        (as defined in section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 
        (7 U.S.C. 2012)) under only section 5(h)(1) of the Food and 
        Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2014(h)(1)) may not 
        simultaneously receive food for distribution to households 
        authorized under section 413 of this Act or be certified to 
        receive benefits under section 5(a) of the Food and Nutrition 
        Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2014(a)).''.
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Expanding Access to Emergency Meals Act
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to ensure food assistance during a major disaster or emergency declared under such Act.
Expanding Access to Emergency Meals Act
Rep. Cárdenas, Tony