Improvements to retail food store SNAP benefits trafficking estimates

Section 17 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2026) is amended by adding at the end the following: (l) Retailer benefits trafficking estimates (1) The Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service, shall— (A) evaluate and update key assumptions used in estimating the trafficking of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits by approved retail food stores (including assumptions regarding the percentage of benefits trafficked by store type or size); (B) validate such assumptions using independent data sources, such as transaction data from known cases of trafficking in such benefits; (C) include ranges reflecting uncertainty in all public reports of such estimates; and (D) assess the benefits and costs of more frequent reauthorization of retail food store (more often than every 5 years) for a sample of such stores at high risk of such trafficking, and implement changes to such reauthorization process as appropriate. (2) Not later than 18 months after effective date of this subsection, and every 3 years thereafter, the Secretary shall publish an updated national retailer trafficking report that describes the results of the actions taken under subsection (a)..