Requirement for retailer use of chip-enabled payment terminals as a condition of SNAP participation

Section 9(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2018(a)) is amended— (1) in paragraph (2)— (A) by striking (2) The Secretary and inserting the following: (2) Regulations The Secretary; and (B) by indenting the margins of subparagraphs (A) and (B) appropriately; (2) by indenting the margin of paragraph (3) appropriately; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (5) Chip-enabled payment terminals Beginning not later than 180 days after the date on which the regulations promulgated pursuant to section 7(h)(15)(B)(i) become final, the Secretary shall require retail food stores and wholesale food concerns seeking authorization or reauthorization to accept and redeem benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program to have a chip-enabled (as defined in section 7(h)(15)(A)) payment terminal at each retail location of the retail food store or wholesale food concern..