PRORATING WITHIN A CERTIFICATION PERIOD.

SEC. 910. PRORATING WITHIN A CERTIFICATION PERIOD. Section 8(c) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2017(c)) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end the following new sentence: “Households shall receive full months’ allotments for all months within a certification period, except as provided in the first sentence of this paragraph with respect to an initial month.”; and (2) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking “previous participation in such program” and inserting “the expiration of a certification period or after the termination of the certification of a household, during a certification period, when the household ceased to be eligible after notice and an opportunity for a hearing under section 11(e)(10)”.