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Resolve, To Amend the State Plan Regarding the Processing of Vouchers under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children by Farmers' Markets
Sec. 1 Farmers' markets; state plan amendment. Resolved: That, no later than January 1, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services shall submit a state plan amendment to the United States Department of Agriculture to authorize farmers' markets to redeem coupons from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children of the federal Child Nutrition Act of 1966 on behalf of individual farmers participating in the farmers' market. The amendment must continue to allow individual farmers to redeem coupons.
 
SUMMARY
This resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services to amend its state plan to authorize farmers' markets to redeem coupons from the federal Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.