ISSUANCE AND USE OF PROGRAM BENEFITS.

SEC. 4115. ISSUANCE AND USE OF PROGRAM BENEFITS.(a) In General.—Section 7 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2016) is amended—(1) by striking the section designation and heading and all that follows through “subsection (j)) shall be” and inserting the following:122 STAT. 1104 “SEC. 7. ISSUANCE AND USE OF PROGRAM BENEFITS.“(a) In General.—Except as provided in subsection (i), EBT cards shall be” ;(2) in subsection (b)—(A) by striking “(b) Coupons” and inserting the following:“(b) Use.—Benefits”; and(B) by striking the second proviso;(3) in subsection (c)—(A) by striking “(c) Coupons” and inserting the following:“(c) Design.—“(1) In general.—EBT cards”;(B) in the first sentence, by striking “and define their denomination”; and(C) by striking the second sentence and inserting the following:“(2) Prohibition.—The name of any public official shall not appear on any EBT card.”;(4) by striking subsection (d);(5) in subsection (e)—(A) by striking “coupons” each place it appears and inserting “benefits”; and(B) by striking “coupon issuers” each place it appears and inserting “benefit issuers”;(6) in subsection (f)—(A) by striking “coupons” each place it appears and inserting “benefits”;(B) by striking “coupon issuer” and inserting “benefit issuers”;(C) by striking “including any losses” and all that follows through “section 11(e)(20),”; and(D) by striking “and allotments”;(7) by striking subsection (g) and inserting the following:“(g) Alternative Benefit Delivery.—“(1) In general.—If the Secretary determines, in consultation with the Inspector General of the Department of Agriculture, that it would improve the integrity of the supplemental nutrition assistance program, the Secretary shall require a State agency to issue or deliver benefits using alternative methods.“(2) No imposition of costs.—The cost of documents or systems that may be required by this subsection may not be imposed upon a retail food store participating in the supplemental nutrition assistance program.“(3) Devaluation and termination of issuance of paper coupons.—“(A) Coupon issuance.—Effective on the date of enactment of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, no State shall issue any coupon, stamp, certificate, or authorization card to a household that receives supplemental nutrition assistance under this Act.“(B) Ebt cards.—Effective beginning on the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, only an EBT card issued under subsection (i) shall be eligible for exchange at any retail food store.122 STAT. 1105“(C) De-obligation of coupons.—Coupons not redeemed during the 1-year period beginning on the date of enactment of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 shall—“(i) no longer be an obligation of the Federal Government; and“(ii) not be redeemable.”;(8) in subsection (h)(1), by striking “coupons” and inserting “benefits”;(9) in subsection (i), by adding at the end the following:“(12) Interchange fees.—No interchange fees shall apply to electronic benefit transfer transactions under this subsection.”;(10) in subsection (j)—(A) in paragraph (2)(A)(ii), by striking “printing, shipping, and redeeming coupons” and inserting “issuing and redeeming benefits”; and(B) in paragraph (5), by striking “coupon” and inserting “benefit”;(11) in subsection (k)—(A) by striking “coupons in the form of” each place it appears and inserting “program benefits in the form of”;(B) by striking “a coupon issued in the form of” each place it appears and inserting “program benefits in the form of”; and(C) in subparagraph (A), by striking “subsection (i)(11)(A)” and inserting “subsection (h)(11)(A)”; and(12) by redesignating subsections (e) through (k) as subsections (d) through (j), respectively.(b) Conforming Amendments.—(1) Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012) is amended—(A) in subsection (a), by striking “coupons” and inserting “benefits”;(B) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following:“(b) Benefit.—The term ‘benefit’ means the value of supplemental nutrition assistance provided to a household by means of—“(1) an electronic benefit transfer under section 7(i); or“(2) other means of providing assistance, as determined by the Secretary.”;(C) in subsection (c), in the first sentence, by striking “authorization cards” and inserting “benefits”;(D) in subsection (d), by striking “or access device” and all that follows through the end of the subsection and inserting a period;(E) in subsection (e)—(i) by striking “(e) ‘Coupon issuer’ means” and inserting the following:“(e) Benefit Issuer.—The term ‘benefit issuer’ means”; and(ii) by striking “coupons” and inserting “benefits”;(F) in subsection (g)(7), by striking “subsection (r)” and inserting “subsection (j)”;(G) in subsection (i)(5)—(i) in subparagraph (B), by striking “subsection (r)” and inserting “subsection (j)”; and122 STAT. 1106(ii) in subparagraph (D), by striking “coupons” and inserting “benefits”;(H) in subsection (j), by striking “(as that term is defined in subsection (p))”;(I) in subsection (k)—(i) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking “subsection (u)(1)” and inserting “subsection (r)(1)”;(ii) in paragraph (2), by striking “subsections (g)(3), (4), (5), (7), (8), and (9) of this section” and inserting “paragraphs (3), (4), (5), (7), (8), and (9) of subsection (k)”; and(iii) in paragraph (3), by striking “subsection (g)(6) of this section” and inserting “subsection (k)(6)”;(J) in subsection (t), by inserting “, including point of sale devices,” after “other means of access”;(K) in subsection (u), by striking “(as defined in subsection (g))”;(L) by adding at the end the following:“(v) EBT Card.—The term ‘EBT card’ means an electronic benefit transfer card issued under section 7(i).”; and(M) by redesignating subsections (a) through (v) as subsections (b), (d), (f), (g), (e), (h), (k), (l), (n), (o), (p), (q), (s), (t), (u), (v), (c), (j), (m), (a), (r), and (i), respectively, and moving the subsections so as to appear in alphabetical order.(2) Section 4(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2013(a)) is amended—(A) by striking “coupons” each place it appears and inserting “benefits”; and(B) by striking “Coupons issued” and inserting “benefits issued”.(3) Section 5 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2014) is amended—(A) in subsection (a), by striking “section 3(i)(4)” and inserting “section 3(n)(4)”;(B) in subsection (h)(3)(B), in the second sentence, by striking “section 7(i)” and inserting “section 7(h)”; and(C) in subsection (i)(2)(E), by striking “, as defined in section 3(i) of this Act,”.(4) Section 6 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2015) is amended—(A) in subsection (b)(1)—(i) in subparagraph (B), by striking “coupons or authorization cards” and inserting “program benefits”; and(ii) by striking “coupons” each place it appears and inserting “benefits”; and(B) in subsection (d)(4)(L), by striking “section 11(e)(22)” and inserting “section 11(e)(19)”.(5) Section 8 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2017) is amended—(A) in subsection (b), by striking “, whether through coupons, access devices, or otherwise”; and(B) in subsections (e)(1) and (f), by striking “section 3(i)(5)” each place it appears and inserting “section 3(n)(5)”.(6) Section 9 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2018) is amended—122 STAT. 1107(A) by striking “coupons” each place it appears and inserting “benefits”;(B) in subsection (a)—(i) in paragraph (1), by striking “coupon business” and inserting “benefit transactions”; and(ii) by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the following:“(3) Authorization periods.—The Secretary shall establish specific time periods during which authorization to accept and redeem benefits shall be valid under the supplemental nutrition assistance program.”; and(C) in subsection (g), by striking “section 3(g)(9)” and inserting “section 3(k)(9)”.(7) Section 10 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2019) is amended—(A) by striking the section designation and heading and all that follows through “Regulations” and inserting the following:“SEC. 10. REDEMPTION OF PROGRAM BENEFITS. “Regulations” ;(B) by striking “section 3(k)(4) of this Act” and inserting “section 3(p)(4)”;(C) by striking “section 7(i)” and inserting “section 7(h)”; and(D) by striking “coupons” each place it appears and inserting “benefits”.(8) Section 11 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2020) is amended—(A) in subsection (d)—(i) by striking “section 3(n)(1) of this Act” each place it appears and inserting “section 3(t)(1)”; and(ii) by striking “section 3(n)(2) of this Act” each place it appears and inserting “section 3(t)(2)”;(B) in subsection (e)—(i) in paragraph (8)(E), by striking “paragraph (16) or (20)(B)” and inserting “paragraph (15) or (18)(B)”;(ii) by striking paragraphs (15) and (19);(iii) by redesignating paragraphs (16) through (18) and (20) through (25) as paragraphs (15) through (17) and (18) through (23), respectively; and(iv) in paragraph (17) (as so redesignated), by striking “(described in section 3(n)(1) of this Act)” and inserting “described in section 3(t)(1)”;(C) in subsection (h), by striking “coupon or coupons” and inserting “benefits”;(D) by striking “coupon” each place it appears and inserting “benefit”;(E) by striking “coupons” each place it appears and inserting “benefits”; and(F) in subsection (q), by striking “section 11(e)(20)(B)” and inserting “subsection (e)(18)(B)”.(9) Section 13 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2022) is amended by striking “coupons” each place it appears and inserting “benefits”.(10) Section 15 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2024) is amended—122 STAT. 1108(A) in subsection (a), by striking “coupons” and inserting “benefits”;(B) in subsection (b)(1)—(i) by striking “coupons, authorization cards, or access devices” each place it appears and inserting “benefits”;(ii) by striking “coupons or authorization cards” and inserting “benefits”; and(iii) by striking “access device” each place it appears and inserting “benefit”;(C) in subsection (c), by striking “coupons” each place it appears and inserting “benefits”;(D) in subsection (d), by striking “Coupons” and inserting “Benefits”;(E) by striking subsections (e) and (f);(F) by redesignating subsections (g) and (h) as subsections (e) and (f), respectively; and(G) in subsection (e) (as so redesignated), by striking “coupon, authorization cards or access devices” and inserting “benefits”.(11) Section 16(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2025(a)) is amended by striking “coupons” each place it appears and inserting “benefits”.(12) Section 17 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2026) is amended—(A) in subsection (a)(2), by striking “coupon” and inserting “benefit”;(B) in subsection (b)(1)—(i) in subparagraph (B)—(I) in clause (iv)—(aa) in subclause (I), inserting “or otherwise providing benefits in a form not restricted to the purchase of food” after “of cash”;(bb) in subclause (III)(aa), by striking “section 3(i)” and inserting “section 3(n)”; and(cc) in subclause (VII), by striking “section 7(j)” and inserting “section 7(i)”; and(II) in clause (v)—(aa) by striking “countersigned food coupons or similar”; and(bb) by striking “food coupons” and inserting “EBT cards”; and(ii) in subparagraph (C)(i)(I), by striking “coupons” and inserting “EBT cards”;(C) in subsection (f), by striking “section 7(g)(2)” and inserting “section 7(f)(2)”; and(D) in subsection (j), by striking “coupon” and inserting “benefit”.(13) Section 19(a)(2)(A)(ii) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2028(a)(2)(A)(ii)) is amended by striking “section 3(o)(4)” and inserting “section 3(u)(4)”.(14) Section 21 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2030) is repealed.(15) Section 22 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2031) is amended—(A) by striking “food coupons” each place it appears and inserting “benefits”;122 STAT. 1109(B) by striking “coupons” each place it appears and inserting “benefits”; and(C) in subsection (g)(1)(A), by striking “coupon” and inserting “benefits”.(16) Section 26(f)(3) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2035(f)(3)) is amended—(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking “subsections (a) through (g)” and inserting “subsections (a) through (f)”; and(B) in subparagraph (E), by striking “(16), (18), (20), (24), and (25)” and inserting “(15), (17), (18), (22), and (23)”.(c) Conforming Cross-References.—(1) In general.—(A) Use of terms.—Each provision of law described in subparagraph (B) is amended (as applicable)—(i) by striking “coupons” each place it appears and inserting “benefits”;(ii) by striking “coupon” each place it appears and inserting “benefit”;(iii) by striking “food coupons” each place it appears and inserting “benefits”;(iv) in each section heading, by striking “food coupons” each place it appears and inserting “benefits”;(v) by striking “food stamp coupon” each place it appears and inserting “benefit”; and(vi) by striking “food stamps” each place it appears and inserting “benefits”.(B) Provisions of law.—The provisions of law referred to in subparagraph (A) are the following:(i) Section 2 of Public Law 103–205 (7 U.S.C. 2012 note; 107 Stat. 2418).(ii) Section 1956(c)(7)(D) of title 18, United States Code.(iii) Titles II through XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.).(iv) Section 401(b)(3) of the Social Security Amendments of 1972 (42 U.S.C. 1382e note; Public Law 92–603).(v) The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.).(vi) Section 802(d)(2)(A)(i)(II) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8011(d)(2)(A)(i)(II)).(2) Definition references.—(A) Section 2 of Public Law 103–205 (7 U.S.C. 2012 note; 107 Stat. 2418) is amended by striking “section 3(k)(1)” and inserting “section 3(p)(1)”.(B) Section 205 of the Food Stamp Program Improvements Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 2012 note; Public Law 103–225) is amended by striking “section 3(k) of such Act (as amended by section 201)” and inserting “section 3(p) of that Act”.(C) Section 115 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (21 U.S.C. 862a) is amended—122 STAT. 1110(i) by striking “section 3(h)” each place it appears and inserting “section 3(l)”; and(ii) in subsection (e)(2), by striking “section 3(m)” and inserting “section 3(s)”.(D) Section 402(a) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1612(a)) is amended—(i) in paragraph (2)(F)(ii), by striking “section 3(r)” and inserting “section 3(j)”; and(ii) in paragraph (3)(B), by striking “section 3(h)” and inserting “section 3(l)”.(E) Section 3803(c)(2)(C)(vii) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking “section 3(h)” and inserting “section 3(l)”.(F) Section 303(d)(4) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 503(d)(4)) is amended by striking “section 3(n)(1)” and inserting “section 3(t)(1)”.(G) Section 404 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 604) is amended by striking “section 3(h)” each place it appears and inserting “section 3(l)”.(H) Section 531 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 654) is amended by striking “section 3(h)” each place it appears and inserting “section 3(l)”.(I) Section 802(d)(2)(A)(i)(II) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8011(d)(2)(A)(i)(II)) is amended by striking “(as defined in section 3(e) of such Act)”.(d) References.—Any reference in any Federal, State, tribal, or local law (including regulations) to a “coupon”, “authorization card”, or other access device provided under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) shall be considered to be a reference to a “benefit” provided under that Act.