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Introduced Session

This bill permits beneficiaries of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to use WIC benefits in a variety of ways. WIC is a federal program that provides nutritious foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and health care referrals to pregnant, postpartum, or breastfeeding women, infants, and children aged five years and under, who are low income and at nutritional risk. The bill allows WIC participants to: 1) utilize a WIC financial instrument to purchase WIC-eligible foods through the online platform of either a New Jersey WIC-authorized vendor or an authorized vendor whose retail presence in the State is primarily as an online retailer; and 2) use their WIC benefit to pay a delivery charge, levied by an authorized New Jersey WIC vendor, for home-delivery of a WIC-eligible foods purchase. The bill directs the Commissioner of Health to apply to the Food and Nutrition Service within the United States Department of Agriculture for any federal waivers or approvals needed to implement the changes to the New Jersey WIC program.

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Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D)*,  Benjie Wimberly (D)*, 

Withdrawn Because Approved P.L.2023, c.267. (on 01/09/2024)

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