SNAP Back to Health Act of 2022
This bill revises the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to prohibit the use of SNAP benefits to purchase sugary beverages. Sugary beverages are beverages that contain brown sugar, corn sweetener, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, lactose, malt syrup, maltose, molasses, raw sugar, and sucrose, aspartame, Splenda, acesulfame potassium, stevia, or any similar substance.
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to prohibit the use of 
 supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to purchase sugary 
                               beverages.

    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 ``SNAP Back to Health Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (k) by inserting ``sugary beverages,'' 
        after ``alcoholic beverages,'', and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (r) the following:
    ``(r-1) `Sugary beverage' means a beverage that contains brown 
sugar, corn sweetener, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, glucose, high-
fructose corn syrup, honey, lactose, malt syrup, maltose, molasses, raw 
sugar, and sucrose, aspartame, Splenda, acesulfame potassium, stevia, 
or any similar substance as determined by the Secretary.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATES.

    (a) Effective Date.--Except as provided in subsection (b), this Act 
and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the date of 
the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Effective Date of Amendments.--The amendments made by this Act 
shall take effect 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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SNAP Back to Health Act of 2022
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to prohibit the use of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to purchase sugary beverages.
SNAP Back to Health Act of 2022
Rep. Grothman, Glenn