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 PUBLIC LAW 94-585—OCT. 21, 1976

90 STAT. 2901

Public Law 94-585 94th Congress An Act To amend the Social Security Act with respect to food stamp purchases by welfare recipients.

Oct. 21, 19 <o [H.R. 13500]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Food stamps., FOOD STAMP DISTRIBUTION TO AFDC F A M I U E S

That (a) Part A of title IV of the Social Security Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: u rOOD STAMP DISTRIBUTION

"SEC. 410. (a) Any State plan for aid and services to needy families with children may (but is not required under this title or any other provision of Federal law to) provide for the institution of procedures, in any or all areas of the State, by the State agency administering or supervising the administration of such plan under which any household participating in the food stamp program established by the Food Stamp Act of 1964, as amended, will be entitled, if it so elects, to have the charges, if any, for its coupon allotment under such program deducted from any aid, in the form of money payments, which is (or, except for the deduction of such charge, would be) payable to or with respect to such household (or any member or members thereof) under such plan and have its coupon allotment distributed to it with such aid. "(b) Any deduction made pursuant to an option provided in accordance with subsection (a) shall not be considered to be a payment described in section 406(b)(2). "(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no agency which is designated as a State agency for any State under or pursuant to the Food Stamp Act of 1964, as amended, shall be regarded as having failed to comply with any requirement imposed by or pursuant to such Act solely because of the failure, of the State agency administering or supervising the administration of the State plan (approved under this part) of such State, to institute or carry out a procedure, described in subsection (a).". (b) Administrative costs incurred by a State plan for aid and services to needy families with children, approved under Part A of title IV of the Social Security Act, in conducting procedures (described in section 410 of such Act, as added by subsection (a) of this section) in connection with the food stamp program shall be paid from funds appropriated to carry out the Food Stamp Act of 1964, as amended. SEC. 2. (a) Title X VI of the Social Security Act is amended by adding immediately after section 1617 the following new section:

42 USC 610. ^ 7 USC 20'11 ^^ot^-

42 USC 606.

42 USC 610 note, 42 USC 601.

a OPERATION o r STATE SUPPLEMENTATION PROGRAMS

"SEC. 1618. (a) In order for any State which makes supplementary 42 USC 1382g. payments of the type described in section 1616(a) (including pay- 42 USC 1382e.

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