# 114-hr-4881: Healthy Food Choices Act of 2016

114-hr-4881, Healthy Food Choices Act of 2016, is a 114th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Roe, David P. [R-TN-1] (R-TN); status Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 114-hr-4881
- Congress: 114
- Title: Healthy Food Choices Act of 2016
- Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
- Introduced: 2016-03-23
- Sponsor: Rep. Roe, David P. [R-TN-1] (R-TN)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Agriculture and Food
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Healthy Food Choices Act of 2016 This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to apply nutritional standards for the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to foods purchased for USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program), with the addition of: meat, fish, and poultry; beans, soups, and immature varieties of legumes (such as those used in canned green peas, green beans, snap beans, yellow beans, and wax beans); and baked beans with meat. (Foods purchased for WIC must: (1) contain nutrients determined by nutritional research to be lacking in the diets of pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, infants, or children; or (2) promote the health of the population served by the program.)

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- 114-hr-6300: Unaffordable Care Act
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## Sources
- [114-hr-4881 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4881)

## Related
- [114-hr-6468: FILCA of 2016](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6468)
- [114-hr-6433: Protect the Flag Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6433)
- [114-hr-6416: Jeff Miller and Richard Blumenthal Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvemen…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6416)
- [114-hr-6402: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income S…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6402)
- [114-hr-6300: Unaffordable Care Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6300)
- [114-hr-6277: Veterans' Health Care Safety Act of 2016](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6277)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-4881 (as of 2025-11-18).