HR 5107 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Senior Nutrition Act of 2002

Introduced Jul 11, 2002 Originated House Sponsor Loretta Sanchez D-CA

Latest action · Jul 16, 2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedJul 11, 2002
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Senior Nutrition Act of 2002 - Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to make a person who is at least 60 years old eligible for the commodity supplemental food program (program) if such person: (1) is eligible for the food stamp program; or (2) has a household income that is not more than 185 percent of the federal poverty income guidelines.

Authorizes permanent program appropriations.

Cosponsors 163

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 11, 2002 to Sep 4, 2002; 18 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Jul 11, 2002
D-MA	Barney Frank	Original	Jul 11, 2002
I-VT	Bernard Sanders	Original	Jul 11, 2002
D-CA	Diane E. Watson	Original	Jul 11, 2002
D-AL	Earl F. Hilliard	Original	Jul 11, 2002
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano	Original	Jul 11, 2002
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman	Original	Jul 11, 2002
R-MO	Jo Ann Emerson	Original	Jul 11, 2002
D-NY	John J. LaFalce	Original	Jul 11, 2002
D-CA	Juanita Millender-McDonald	Original	Jul 11, 2002
D-CA	Lois Capps	Original	Jul 11, 2002
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey	Original	Jul 11, 2002
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur	Original	Jul 11, 2002
D-TX	Martin Frost	Original	Jul 11, 2002
D-HI	Patsy T. Mink	Original	Jul 11, 2002
D-CA	Robert T. Matsui	Original	Jul 11, 2002
D-OH	Stephanie Tubbs Jones	Original	Jul 11, 2002
D-OH	Tony P. Hall	Original	Jul 11, 2002
D-WV	Alan B. Mollohan		Jul 12, 2002
D-MA	Bill Delahunt		Jul 12, 2002
D-OR	David Wu		Jul 12, 2002
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Jul 12, 2002
D-NY	Edolphus Towns		Jul 12, 2002
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		Jul 12, 2002
D-PA	John P. Murtha		Jul 12, 2002
D-MA	John W. Olver		Jul 12, 2002
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Jul 12, 2002
D-CA	Sam Farr		Jul 12, 2002
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Jul 12, 2002
D-NM	Tom Udall		Jul 12, 2002
D-MI	Carolyn C. Kilpatrick		Jul 15, 2002
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Jul 15, 2002
D-MI	John D. Dingell		Jul 15, 2002
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		Jul 16, 2002
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Jul 16, 2002
D-TX	Ciro D. Rodriguez		Jul 16, 2002
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Jul 16, 2002
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Jul 16, 2002
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee		Jul 16, 2002
D-IL	David D. Phelps		Jul 16, 2002
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Jul 16, 2002
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Jul 16, 2002
D-CA	Ellen O. Tauscher		Jul 16, 2002
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark		Jul 16, 2002
D-CA	Gary A. Condit		Jul 16, 2002
D-CA	Hilda L. Solis		Jul 16, 2002
D-CA	Howard L. Berman		Jul 16, 2002
D-MO	Ike Skelton		Jul 16, 2002
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jul 16, 2002
D-WA	Jim McDermott		Jul 16, 2002
D-CA	Joe Baca		Jul 16, 2002
D-CT	John B. Larson		Jul 16, 2002
D-ME	John Elias Baldacci		Jul 16, 2002
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Jul 16, 2002
D-FL	Karen L. Thurman		Jul 16, 2002
D-MI	Lynn N. Rivers		Jul 16, 2002
D-NY	Major R. Owens		Jul 16, 2002
D-MA	Martin T. Meehan		Jul 16, 2002
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Jul 16, 2002
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Jul 16, 2002
D-HI	Neil Abercrombie		Jul 16, 2002
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Jul 16, 2002
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Jul 16, 2002
D-AL	Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr.		Jul 16, 2002
D-MS	Ronnie Shows		Jul 16, 2002
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Jul 16, 2002
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Jul 16, 2002
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		Jul 16, 2002
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Jul 16, 2002
D-OH	Sherrod Brown		Jul 16, 2002
D-TX	Solomon P. Ortiz		Jul 16, 2002
D-NY	Steve Israel		Jul 16, 2002
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		Jul 16, 2002
D-CA	Xavier Becerra		Jul 16, 2002
D-MD	Albert Russell Wynn		Jul 17, 2002
D-MD	Benjamin L. Cardin		Jul 17, 2002
D-OK	Brad Carson		Jul 17, 2002
D-LA	Christopher John		Jul 17, 2002
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Jul 17, 2002
D-WI	Gerald D. Kleczka		Jul 17, 2002
D-CT	James H. Maloney		Jul 17, 2002
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Jul 17, 2002
D-PA	Joseph M. Hoeffel		Jul 17, 2002
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		Jul 17, 2002
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Jul 17, 2002
D-TX	Max Sandlin		Jul 17, 2002
D-AR	Mike Ross		Jul 17, 2002
D-TX	Nick Lampson		Jul 17, 2002
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Jul 17, 2002
D-WA	Norman D. Dicks		Jul 17, 2002
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Jul 17, 2002
D-NJ	Robert Menendez		Jul 17, 2002
D-PA	Tim Holden		Jul 17, 2002
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Jul 18, 2002
D-NY	Anthony D. Weiner		Jul 18, 2002
R-NY	Benjamin A. Gilman		Jul 18, 2002
D-MN	Bill Luther		Jul 18, 2002
D-TN	Bob Clement		Jul 18, 2002
D-CA	Bob Filner		Jul 18, 2002
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		Jul 18, 2002
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Jul 18, 2002
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich		Jul 18, 2002
D-AS	Eni F. H. Faleomavaega		Jul 18, 2002
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman		Jul 18, 2002
D-TX	Gene Green		Jul 18, 2002
D-CA	George Miller		Jul 18, 2002
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Jul 18, 2002
D-TN	Harold E. Ford Jr.		Jul 18, 2002
D-WA	Jay Inslee		Jul 18, 2002
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Jul 18, 2002
D-GA	John Lewis		Jul 18, 2002
D-MO	Karen McCarthy		Jul 18, 2002
D-IL	Lane Evans		Jul 18, 2002
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Jul 18, 2002
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Jul 18, 2002
D-CO	Mark Udall		Jul 18, 2002
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Jul 18, 2002
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Jul 18, 2002
D-NY	Michael R. McNulty		Jul 18, 2002
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Jul 18, 2002
D-RI	Patrick J. Kennedy		Jul 18, 2002
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		Jul 18, 2002
D-IL	Rod R. Blagojevich		Jul 18, 2002
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Jul 18, 2002
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		Jul 18, 2002
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Jul 18, 2002
D-WI	Thomas M. Barrett		Jul 18, 2002
D-IL	William O. Lipinski		Jul 18, 2002
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jul 18, 2002
D-MA	Edward J. Markey		Jul 22, 2002
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Jul 22, 2002
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Jul 22, 2002
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen		Jul 23, 2002
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen		Jul 23, 2002
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Jul 23, 2002
D-LA	William J. Jefferson		Jul 23, 2002
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Jul 25, 2002
D-FL	Allen Boyd		Jul 25, 2002
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Jul 25, 2002
D-FL	Carrie P. Meek		Jul 25, 2002
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		Jul 25, 2002
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Jul 25, 2002
D-GA	Cynthia A. McKinney		Jul 25, 2002
D-OR	Darlene Hooley		Jul 25, 2002
D-KS	Dennis Moore		Jul 25, 2002
D-ND	Earl Pomeroy		Jul 25, 2002
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Jul 25, 2002
D-NC	Eva M. Clayton		Jul 25, 2002
D-VA	James P. Moran		Jul 25, 2002
D-CA	Jane Harman		Jul 25, 2002
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Jul 25, 2002
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Jul 25, 2002
D-IN	Julia Carson		Jul 25, 2002
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Jul 25, 2002
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Jul 25, 2002
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Jul 25, 2002
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Jul 25, 2002
D-FL	Robert Wexler		Jul 25, 2002
D-CA	Tom Lantos		Jul 25, 2002
D-OH	Tom Sawyer		Jul 25, 2002
D-AR	Vic Snyder		Jul 25, 2002
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		Sep 4, 2002
R-VA	Virgil H. Goode Jr.		Sep 4, 2002

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Agriculture Committee	Referred Jul 11, 2002
	Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee	Referred Jul 16, 2002

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jul 16, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
Jul 11, 2002Introduced in House
Jul 11, 2002Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 2108	Senior Nutrition Act of 2002	Identical bill	Apr 11, 2002

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to assist the neediest of senior citizens by modifying the eligibility criteria for supplemental foods provided under the commodity supplemental food program to take into account the extraordinarily high out-of-pocket medical expenses that senior citizens pay, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Senior Nutrition Act of 2002

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jul 11, 2002Introduced in House

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