Raised H.B. No. 5416
Session Year 2026

AN ACT CONCERNING FOOD ASSISTANCE FOR VETERANS.

To (1) provide to veterans the same level of benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program that they would have received under such program without a work requirement, prior to the elimination of the veterans work requirement exemption under Public Law 119-21, and (2) establish a Connecticut Farmers' Market/Veteran Nutrition Program to assist veterans deemed to be at nutritional risk.

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