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4	4	STSESSION H. R. 2407
5	5	To help individuals receiving assistance under the supplemental nutrition
6	6	assistance program in obtaining self-sufficiency, to provide information
7	7	on total spending on means-tested welfare programs, and for other pur-
8	8	poses.
9	9	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
10	10	MARCH27, 2025
11	11	Mr. B
12	12	RECHEEN(for himself, Mr. KENNEDYof Utah, and Mr. GROTHMAN) in-
13	13	troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agri-
14	14	culture, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government
15	15	Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in
16	16	each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
17	17	tion of the committee concerned
18	18	A BILL
19	19	To help individuals receiving assistance under the supple-
20	20	mental nutrition assistance program in obtaining self-
21	21	sufficiency, to provide information on total spending on
22	22	means-tested welfare programs, and for other purposes.
23	23	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
24	24	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
25	25	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
26	26	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘SNAP Reform and 4
27	27	Upward Mobility Act of 2025’’. 5
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31	31	SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 1
32	32	The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 2
33	33	Sec. 1. Short title.
34	34	Sec. 2. Table of contents.
35	35	TITLE I—POVERTY MEASUREMENT IMPROVEMENT
36	36	Sec. 101. Improving the measurement of poverty in the United States.
37	37	Sec. 102. Commission on valuation of government benefits.
38	38	Sec. 103. GAO reports on effect of supplementary data on calculation of pov-
39	39	erty rates and related measures.
40	40	Sec. 104. Rule of construction.
41	41	TITLE II—MODIFICATIONS TO SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION
42	42	ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
43	43	Sec. 201. Work requirements.
44	44	Sec. 202. Employment and training program outcomes reporting.
45	45	Sec. 203. State matching funds.
46	46	Sec. 204. Eligibility.
47	47	Sec. 205. Compliance with fraud investigations.
48	48	Sec. 206. Authorized users of electronic benefit transfer cards.
49	49	Sec. 207. Reauthorization of medium- or high-risk retail food stores and whole-
50	50	sale food concerns.
51	51	Sec. 208. State activity reports.
52	52	Sec. 209. Disqualification by State agency.
53	53	Sec. 210. Retention of recaptured funds by States.
54	54	TITLE I—POVERTY 3
55	55	MEASUREMENT IMPROVEMENT 4
56	56	SEC. 101. IMPROVING THE MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY IN 5
57	57	THE UNITED STATES. 6
58	58	(a) D
59	59	EFINITIONS.—In this section: 7
60	60	(1) F
61	61	EDERAL BENEFIT .—The term ‘‘Federal 8
62	62	benefit’’ means a benefit, refundable tax credit, or 9
63	63	other form of assistance provided under any of the 10
64	64	following programs: 11
65	65	(A) Earned Income Tax Credit (refundable 12
66	66	portion). 13
67	67	(B) Child Tax Credit (refundable portion). 14
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71	71	(C) Supplemental Security Income. 1
72	72	(D) Temporary Assistance for Needy Fam-2
73	73	ilies. 3
74	74	(E) Title IV–E Foster Care. 4
75	75	(F) Title IV–E Adoption Assistance. 5
76	76	(G) Medicaid. 6
77	77	(H) SCHIP. 7
78	78	(I) Indian Health Services. 8
79	79	(J) PPACA refundable premium assistance 9
80	80	and cost sharing tax credit. 10
81	81	(K) Assets for Independence program. 11
82	82	(L) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 12
83	83	Food Program. 13
84	84	(M) School Breakfast. 14
85	85	(N) School Lunch. 15
86	86	(O) Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) 16
87	87	Food Program. 17
88	88	(P) Child and Adult Care Food Program. 18
89	89	(Q) The Food Distribution Program on In-19
90	90	dian Reservations (FDPIR). 20
91	91	(R) Nutrition Program for the Elderly. 21
92	92	(S) Seniors Farmers’ Market Nutrition 22
93	93	Program. 23
94	94	(T) Commodity Supplemental Food Pro-24
95	95	gram. 25
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99	99	(U) Section 8 Housing. 1
100	100	(V) Public Housing. 2
101	101	(W) Housing for Persons with Disabilities. 3
102	102	(X) Home Investment Partnership Pro-4
103	103	gram. 5
104	104	(Y) Rural Housing Service. 6
105	105	(Z) Rural Housing Insurance Fund. 7
106	106	(AA) Low-Income Home Energy Assist-8
107	107	ance Program. 9
108	108	(BB) Universal Service Fund Low Income 10
109	109	Support Mechanism (subsidized phone services). 11
110	110	(CC) Pell Grants. 12
111	111	(DD) Supplemental Educational Oppor-13
112	112	tunity Grants. 14
113	113	(EE) American Opportunity Tax Credit 15
114	114	(refundable portion). 16
115	115	(FF) Healthy Start. 17
116	116	(GG) Job Corps. 18
117	117	(HH) Head Start (including Early Head 19
118	118	Start). 20
119	119	(II) Weatherization Assistance. 21
120	120	(JJ) Chafee Foster Care Independence 22
121	121	Program. 23
122	122	(KK) Child Care Subsidies from the Child 24
123	123	Care and Development Fund. 25
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127	127	(LL) Child Care from the Temporary As-1
128	128	sistance for Needy Families Block Grant. 2
129	129	(MM) Emergency Assistance to Needy 3
130	130	Families with Children. 4
131	131	(NN) Senior Community Service Employ-5
132	132	ment Program. 6
133	133	(OO) Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers 7
134	134	Training Program. 8
135	135	(PP) Indian and Native American Employ-9
136	136	ment and Training Program. 10
137	137	(QQ) Independent Living Education and 11
138	138	Training Vouchers. 12
139	139	(2) R
140	140	ESOURCE UNIT.—The term ‘‘resource 13
141	141	unit’’ means all co-resident individuals who are re-14
142	142	lated by birth, marriage, or adoption, plus any co- 15
143	143	resident unrelated children, foster children, and un-16
144	144	married partners and their relatives. 17
145	145	(3) M
146	146	ARKET INCOME.—The term ‘‘market in-18
147	147	come’’ means individual income from the following: 19
148	148	(A) Earnings. 20
149	149	(B) Interest. 21
150	150	(C) Dividends. 22
151	151	(D) Rents, royalties, and estates and 23
152	152	trusts. 24
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156	156	(E) The monetary value of employer-spon-1
157	157	sored health insurance benefits. 2
158	158	(F) Other forms of income, as determined 3
159	159	by the Director. 4
160	160	(4) E
161	161	NTITLEMENT AND OTHER INCOME .—The 5
162	162	term ‘‘entitlement and other income’’ means income 6
163	163	from the following: 7
164	164	(A) Unemployment (insurance) compensa-8
165	165	tion. 9
166	166	(B) Workers’ compensation. 10
167	167	(C) Social Security. 11
168	168	(D) Veterans’ payments and benefits. 12
169	169	(E) Survivor benefits. 13
170	170	(F) Disability benefits (not including bene-14
171	171	fits under the Supplemental Security Income 15
172	172	program). 16
173	173	(G) Pension or retirement income. 17
174	174	(H) Alimony. 18
175	175	(I) Child support. 19
176	176	(J) Financial assistance from outside of 20
177	177	the household. 21
178	178	(K) Medicare. 22
179	179	(5) E
180	180	NTITLEMENT AND EARNED UNIT IN -23
181	181	COME.—The term ‘‘entitlement and earned unit in-24
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185	185	come’’ means the sum of all market income and en-1
186	186	titlement and other income. 2
187	187	(6) I
188	188	NCOME TAX DATA.—The term ‘‘income tax 3
189	189	data’’ means return information, as such term is de-4
190	190	fined under section 6103(b)(2) of the Internal Rev-5
191	191	enue Code of 1986. 6
192	192	(7) A
193	193	DMINISTERING AGENCY .—The term ‘‘ad-7
194	194	ministering agency’’ means a State or Federal agen-8
195	195	cy responsible for administering a Federal benefit. 9
196	196	(8) T
197	197	OTAL RESOURCE UNIT INCOME .—The 10
198	198	term ‘‘total resource unit income’’ means, with re-11
199	199	spect to a resource unit, an amount equal to— 12
200	200	(A) the sum of— 13
201	201	(i) all market income attributable to 14
202	202	members of the unit; 15
203	203	(ii) all entitlement and other income 16
204	204	attributable to members of the unit; and 17
205	205	(iii) an amount, or cash equivalent, of 18
206	206	all Federal benefits received by members of 19
207	207	the unit; minus 20
208	208	(B) all State and Federal income and pay-21
209	209	roll taxes attributable to members of the unit. 22
210	210	(9) E
211	211	ARNED RESOURCE UNIT INCOME .—The 23
212	212	term ‘‘earned resource unit income’’ means, with re-24
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216	216	spect to a resource unit, all market income attrib-1
217	217	utable to members of the unit. 2
218	218	(10) P
219	219	ERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMA -3
220	220	TION.—The term ‘‘personally identifiable informa-4
221	221	tion’’ means any information that identifies an indi-5
222	222	vidual or could reasonably be used to identify an in-6
223	223	dividual that is— 7
224	224	(A) collected pursuant to a survey con-8
225	225	ducted by the Bureau of the Census; or 9
226	226	(B) disclosed to the Bureau of the Census 10
227	227	by an administering agency for the purpose of 11
228	228	carrying out subsection (b). 12
229	229	(11) D
230	230	IRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means 13
231	231	the Director of the Bureau of the Census. 14
232	232	(b) V
233	233	ERIFICATION OFDATACOLLECTED IN THEAN-15
234	234	NUALSOCIAL ANDECONOMICSUPPLEMENT TO THE CUR-16
235	235	RENTPOPULATIONSURVEY.— 17
236	236	(1) I
237	237	N GENERAL.—Beginning in fiscal year 18
238	238	2025, in order to more accurately determine the ex-19
239	239	tent of poverty in the United States and the anti- 20
240	240	poverty effectiveness of Federal benefit programs, 21
241	241	the Director shall collect, in addition to the data col-22
242	242	lected under the Annual Social and Economic Sup-23
243	243	plement to the Current Population Survey, data 24
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247	247	from the appropriate administering agencies related 1
248	248	to the following: 2
249	249	(A) Participation in any Federal benefit 3
250	250	program and the monetary or cash equivalent 4
251	251	value of such benefit for an individual, where 5
252	252	possible, and otherwise for resource units or 6
253	253	households. 7
254	254	(B) The total amount of market income 8
255	255	for individuals. 9
256	256	(C) The total amount of entitlement and 10
257	257	other income for individuals. 11
258	258	(D) Payment of income taxes and payroll 12
259	259	taxes for individuals. 13
260	260	(E) Total resource unit income. 14
261	261	(F) Total earned resource unit income. 15
262	262	(G) Any other information about benefits 16
263	263	or income received by individuals that the Di-17
264	264	rector determines necessary to carry out this 18
265	265	section and that is not included in the data re-19
266	266	lating to participation in Federal benefit pro-20
267	267	grams or market income for individuals. 21
268	268	(2) A
269	269	DMINISTERING AGENCY DATA .—Not later 22
270	270	than 6 months after receiving a request from the Di-23
271	271	rector, the head of each administering agency shall 24
272	272	make available to the Director such data (including 25
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276	276	income tax data) as the Director shall require for 1
277	277	the purpose of carrying out this subsection and for 2
278	278	the purposes outlined in section 6 of title 13, United 3
279	279	States Code. 4
280	280	(3) P
281	281	UBLICATION OF DATA.— 5
282	282	(A) R
283	283	ATES AND OTHER DATA .— 6
284	284	(i) R
285	285	EPORT.—The Director shall sub-7
286	286	mit to Congress, not later than January 1, 8
287	287	2026, a report detailing the implementa-9
288	288	tion of this section, including— 10
289	289	(I) the availability of related 11
290	290	data; 12
291	291	(II) the quality of the data; and 13
292	292	(III) the methodology proposed 14
293	293	for assigning dollar values to the re-15
294	294	ceipt of noncash Federal benefits. 16
295	295	(ii) T
296	296	ABLES AND GRAPHS .—The Di-17
297	297	rector shall produce tables and graphs 18
298	298	showing for each year the poverty rates 19
299	299	and related data calculated using data col-20
300	300	lected under paragraph (1), including— 21
301	301	(I) the total resource unit income 22
302	302	for survey respondents; 23
303	303	(II) the total earned resource 24
304	304	unit income for survey respondents; 25
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308	308	(III) the total of all amounts de-1
309	309	scribed in subparagraphs (A) through 2
310	310	(G) of paragraph (1) that are received 3
311	311	by survey respondents; 4
312	312	(IV) a breakdown of the amount 5
313	313	of income taxes and payroll taxes at-6
314	314	tributable to survey respondents; and 7
315	315	(V) for 2027 and subsequent 8
316	316	years, poverty rates calculated using 9
317	317	updated poverty thresholds as de-10
318	318	scribed in clause (iii). 11
319	319	(iii) U
320	320	PDATED POVERTY THRESH -12
321	321	OLDS.—For 2027 and subsequent years, 13
322	322	the Director shall, in addition to the offi-14
323	323	cial poverty line (as defined by the Office 15
324	324	of Management and Budget) and the sup-16
325	325	plemental poverty measure, provide an al-17
326	326	ternative poverty measure that uses the 18
327	327	personal consumption expenditure price 19
328	328	index (as published by the Bureau of Eco-20
329	329	nomic Analysis) and accounts for the data 21
330	330	collected under paragraph (1). The Direc-22
331	331	tor shall provide a comparison of the offi-23
332	332	cial poverty line (as defined by the Office 24
333	333	of Management and Budget), the supple-25
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337	337	mental poverty measure rate as defined by 1
338	338	the Bureau of the Census, and the alter-2
339	339	native poverty rate created using the alter-3
340	340	native poverty measure under this section. 4
341	341	(iv) R
342	342	ULE OF CONSTRUCTION .—The 5
343	343	Office of Management and Budget shall 6
344	344	not use the additional data collected by the 7
345	345	Director pursuant to paragraph (1) for 8
346	346	purposes of defining the official poverty 9
347	347	line. 10
348	348	(B) C
349	349	ONFIDENTIALITY.—Consistent with 11
350	350	the provisions of sections 8, 9, and 23(c) of title 12
351	351	13, United States Code, the Director shall en-13
352	352	sure the confidentiality of information furnished 14
353	353	to the Director under this subsection. 15
354	354	(c) P
355	355	ROTECTION AND DISCLOSURE OFPERSONALLY 16
356	356	I
357	357	DENTIFIABLEINFORMATION.— 17
358	358	(1) I
359	359	N GENERAL.—The security, disclosure, and 18
360	360	confidentiality provisions set forth in sections 9 and 19
361	361	23 of title 13, United States Code, shall apply to 20
362	362	personally identifiable information obtained by the 21
363	363	Bureau of the Census pursuant to this section. 22
364	364	(2) R
365	365	ESTRICTED ACCESS TO PERSONALLY 23
366	366	IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION .—Access to personally 24
367	367	identifiable information collected to supplement the 25
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371	371	restricted-use Current Population Survey Annual So-1
372	372	cial and Economic Supplements in accordance with 2
373	373	subsection (b)(1) shall be available only to those who 3
374	374	have access to the Current Population Survey data 4
375	375	with the permission of the Bureau of the Census and 5
376	376	in accordance with any other applicable provision of 6
377	377	law. 7
378	378	(3) P
379	379	ENALTIES.—Any individual who knowingly 8
380	380	accesses or discloses personally identifiable informa-9
381	381	tion in violation of this section shall be guilty of a 10
382	382	felony and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in 11
383	383	an amount of not more than $300,000 under title 12
384	384	18, United States Code, or imprisoned for not more 13
385	385	than five years, or both. 14
386	386	(d) S
387	387	TATEREPORTING OFFEDERALDATA.—Begin-15
388	388	ning with the first full calendar year that begins after the 16
389	389	date of enactment of this Act, with respect to any Federal 17
390	390	benefit that is administered at the State level by a State 18
391	391	administering agency, such State administering agency 19
392	392	shall submit each year to the Federal administering agen-20
393	393	cy responsible for administering the benefit at the Federal 21
394	394	level a report that identifies each resource unit that re-22
395	395	ceived such benefits during such year by the personally 23
396	396	identifiable information of the head of the resource unit 24
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400	400	and the amount, or cash equivalent, of such benefit re-1
401	401	ceived by such resource unit. 2
402	402	SEC. 102. COMMISSION ON VALUATION OF GOVERNMENT 3
403	403	BENEFITS. 4
404	404	(a) E
405	405	STABLISHMENT.—There is established within 5
406	406	the United States Census Bureau a commission, to be 6
407	407	known as the ‘‘Commission on Valuation of Federal Bene-7
408	408	fits’’ (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Commission’’). 8
409	409	(b) C
410	410	OMPOSITION.— 9
411	411	(1) I
412	412	N GENERAL.—The Commission shall be 10
413	413	composed of 8 members, of whom— 11
414	414	(A) 2 members shall be appointed by the 12
415	415	majority leader of the Senate; 13
416	416	(B) 2 members shall be appointed by the 14
417	417	minority leader of the Senate; 15
418	418	(C) 2 members shall be appointed by the 16
419	419	Speaker of the House of Representatives; and 17
420	420	(D) 2 members shall be appointed by the 18
421	421	minority leader of the House of Representa-19
422	422	tives. 20
423	423	(2) C
424	424	O-CHAIRS.—Of the members of the Com-21
425	425	mission— 22
426	426	(A) 1 co-chair shall be designated by the 23
427	427	majority leader of the Senate; and 24
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431	431	(B) 1 co-chair shall be designated by the 1
432	432	Speaker of the House of Representatives. 2
433	433	(3) Q
434	434	UALIFICATIONS.—Each member appointed 3
435	435	to the Commission shall have experience in— 4
436	436	(A) quantitative policy research; and 5
437	437	(B) welfare or poverty studies. 6
438	438	(c) I
439	439	NITIALMEETING.—Not later than 60 days after 7
440	440	the date on which the last member is appointed under sub-8
441	441	section (b), the Commission shall hold an initial meeting. 9
442	442	(d) Q
443	443	UORUM.—Six members of the Commission shall 10
444	444	constitute a quorum. 11
445	445	(e) N
446	446	OPROXYVOTING.—Proxy voting by members 12
447	447	of the Commission shall be prohibited. 13
448	448	(f) S
449	449	TAFF.—The Director of the Census Bureau shall 14
450	450	appoint an executive director of the Commission. 15
451	451	(g) T
452	452	RAVELEXPENSES.—Members of the Commis-16
453	453	sion shall serve without pay, but shall receive travel ex-17
454	454	penses in accordance with sections 5702 and 5703 of title 18
455	455	5, United States Code. 19
456	456	(h) D
457	457	UTIES OFCOMMISSION.— 20
458	458	(1) R
459	459	ECOMMENDATIONS .— 21
460	460	(A) I
461	461	N GENERAL.—The Commission shall 22
462	462	produce recommendations for the valuation of 23
463	463	Federal benefits listed under section 101(a)(1) 24
464	464	for the purpose of United States Census Bu-25
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468	468	reau estimates of the Federal Poverty Level, in-1
469	469	cluding non-cash benefits. 2
470	470	(2) R
471	471	EPORT.— 3
472	472	(A) I
473	473	N GENERAL.—Not later than 270 4
474	474	days after the date of enactment of this Act, 5
475	475	the Commission shall submit to Congress a re-6
476	476	port of the recommendations required under 7
477	477	paragraph (1), including a detailed statement of 8
478	478	methodology and reasoning behind rec-9
479	479	ommendations. 10
480	480	(B) P
481	481	UBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The report 11
482	482	required by subparagraph (A) shall be made 12
483	483	available on an internet website of the United 13
484	484	States Government that is available to the pub-14
485	485	lic. 15
486	486	(i) P
487	487	OWERS OFCOMMISSION.—On request by the ex-16
488	488	ecutive director of the Commission, the head of a Federal 17
489	489	agency shall furnish information to the Commission. 18
490	490	(j) T
491	491	ERMINATION OF COMMISSION.—The Commis-19
492	492	sion shall terminate 90 days after the date on which the 20
493	493	Commission submits the report under subsection (h)(2). 21
494	494	(k) A
495	495	UTHORIZATION OFAPPROPRIATIONS.—There is 22
496	496	authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 to carry out this 23
497	497	section. 24
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501	501	SEC. 103. GAO REPORTS ON EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTARY 1
502	502	DATA ON CALCULATION OF POVERTY RATES 2
503	503	AND RELATED MEASURES. 3
504	504	Not later than January 1, 2028, and every 2 years 4
505	505	thereafter, the Comptroller General of the United States 5
506	506	shall submit to Congress a report that compares the pov-6
507	507	erty rates and related measures calculated under the An-7
508	508	nual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Pop-8
509	509	ulation Survey with the poverty rates and related meas-9
510	510	ures calculated using the data collected under section 10
511	511	101(b)(1). 11
512	512	SEC. 104. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 12
513	513	Nothing in this title shall be construed to affect the 13
514	514	eligibility of an individual or household for a Federal ben-14
515	515	efit. 15
516	516	TITLE II—MODIFICATIONS TO 16
517	517	SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION 17
518	518	ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 18
519	519	SEC. 201. WORK REQUIREMENTS. 19
520	520	(a) D
521	521	ECLARATION OF POLICY.—Section 2 of the 20
522	522	Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011) is 21
523	523	amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘Congress 22
524	524	further finds that it should also be the purpose of the sup-23
525	525	plemental nutrition assistance program to increase em-24
526	526	ployment, to encourage healthy marriage, and to promote 25
527	527	prosperous self-sufficiency, which means the ability of 26
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531	531	households to maintain an income above the poverty level 1
532	532	without services and benefits from the Federal Govern-2
533	533	ment.’’. 3
534	534	(b) D
535	535	EFINITION OFFOOD.—Section 3(k) of the Food 4
536	536	and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012(k)) is amended 5
537	537	by striking ‘‘means (1)’’ and inserting ‘‘means the fol-6
538	538	lowing foods, food products, meals, and other items, only 7
539	539	if the food, food product, meal, or other item is essential, 8
540	540	as determined by the Secretary: (1)’’. 9
541	541	(c) G
542	542	ENERAL WORKREQUIREMENTS.—Section 10
543	543	6(d)(1)(A) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 11
544	544	U.S.C. 2015(d)(1)(A)) is amended, in the matter pre-12
545	545	ceding clause (i), by striking ‘‘60’’ and inserting ‘‘65’’. 13
546	546	(d) H
547	547	OUR-BASEDWORKREQUIREMENT.—Section 14
548	548	6(o) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 15
549	549	2015(o)) is amended— 16
550	550	(1) in paragraph (1)(C), by striking ‘‘other 17
551	551	than a supervised job search program or job search 18
552	552	training program’’ and inserting ‘‘including an in- 19
553	553	person supervised job search program’’; 20
554	554	(2) in paragraph (3)(A)(ii)(III), by striking 21
555	555	‘‘55’’ and inserting ‘‘64’’; 22
556	556	(3) in paragraph (4)(A)— 23
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560	560	(A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by 1
561	561	striking ‘‘area’’ and inserting ‘‘county or county 2
562	562	equivalent’’; 3
563	563	(B) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘or’’ and in-4
564	564	serting ‘‘and’’; and 5
565	565	(C) by striking clause (ii) and inserting the 6
566	566	following: 7
567	567	‘‘(ii) is not located within a labor mar-8
568	568	ket area, as determined by data published 9
569	569	by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that has 10
570	570	an unemployment rate of over 10 per-11
571	571	cent.’’; 12
572	572	(4) in paragraph (6)(D), by striking ‘‘15 per-13
573	573	cent’’ and inserting ‘‘5 percent’’; 14
574	574	(5) by redesignating paragraph (7) as para-15
575	575	graph (8); 16
576	576	(6) by inserting after paragraph (6) the fol-17
577	577	lowing: 18
578	578	‘‘(7) W
579	579	ORK OR WORK PREPARATION HOURS RE -19
580	580	QUIREMENT FOR MARRIED COUPLES WITH CHIL -20
581	581	DREN.—The total combined number of hours of 21
582	582	work or work preparation activities under subpara-22
583	583	graphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (2) for both 23
584	584	spouses in a married couple household with 1 or 24
585	585	more children over the age of 6 shall not be greater 25
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589	589	than the total number of hours required under those 1
590	590	subparagraphs for a single head of household.’’; and 2
591	591	(7) by inserting after paragraph (8) (as so re-3
592	592	designated) the following: 4
593	593	‘‘(9) M
594	594	INIMUM WAGE RULE .—The limitation 5
595	595	under subsection (d)(4)(F)(i) shall not apply to any 6
596	596	work requirement, program, or activity required 7
597	597	under this subsection.’’. 8
598	598	SEC. 202. EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAM OUT-9
599	599	COMES REPORTING. 10
600	600	Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 11
601	601	of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to 12
602	602	Congress a report, using data from the most recent 5 fis-13
603	603	cal years available, detailing the outcomes of beneficiaries 14
604	604	of the supplemental nutrition assistance program estab-15
605	605	lished under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 16
606	606	U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) (referred to in this section as 17
607	607	‘‘SNAP’’) who participate in employment and training 18
608	608	programs (as defined in section 6(d)(4)(B) of that Act (7 19
609	609	U.S.C. 2015(d)(4)(B))) for each of those 5 years that in-20
610	610	cludes the following information: 21
611	611	(1) The number and percentage of SNAP bene-22
612	612	ficiaries in each State who participated in an em-23
613	613	ployment and training program compared to the 24
614	614	number and percentage of SNAP beneficiaries in 25
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618	618	each State who did not participate in an employment 1
619	619	and training program. 2
620	620	(2) The number and percentage of SNAP bene-3
621	621	ficiaries in each State who obtained a job while par-4
622	622	ticipating in an employment and training program 5
623	623	compared to the number and percentage of SNAP 6
624	624	beneficiaries in each State who obtained a job but 7
625	625	did not participate in an employment and training 8
626	626	program. 9
627	627	(3) The number and percentage of SNAP bene-10
628	628	ficiaries in each State who retained a job for 6 11
629	629	months, 1 year, and 5 years after completing an em-12
630	630	ployment and training program and obtaining a job 13
631	631	compared to the number and percentage of SNAP 14
632	632	beneficiaries in each State who retained a job for 6 15
633	633	months, 1 year, and 5 years but did not complete an 16
634	634	employment and training program prior to obtaining 17
635	635	that job. 18
636	636	(4) The increase or decrease in wages, if appli-19
637	637	cable, for SNAP beneficiaries in each State who re-20
638	638	tained a job for 6 months, 1 year, and 5 years after 21
639	639	completing an employment and training program 22
640	640	and obtaining a job compared to the increase or de-23
641	641	crease in wages, if applicable, for SNAP bene-24
642	642	ficiaries in each State who retained a job for 6 25
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646	646	months, 1 year, and 5 years but did not complete an 1
647	647	employment and training program prior to obtaining 2
648	648	that job. 3
649	649	(5) The number and percentage of SNAP bene-4
650	650	ficiaries who— 5
651	651	(A) previously participated in an employ-6
652	652	ment and training program; 7
653	653	(B) after that participation, obtained a job 8
654	654	or stopped receiving SNAP benefits; and 9
655	655	(C) after regaining eligibility for SNAP 10
656	656	benefits, reentered an employment or training 11
657	657	program. 12
658	658	(6) The average duration that SNAP bene-13
659	659	ficiaries in each State participated in an employment 14
660	660	and training program. 15
661	661	(7) A breakdown of— 16
662	662	(A) the types of employment and training 17
663	663	activities offered by the employment and train-18
664	664	ing program of each State; and 19
665	665	(B) the types of jobs that States are pre-20
666	666	paring employment and training program par-21
667	667	ticipants to obtain. 22
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671	671	SEC. 203. STATE MATCHING FUNDS. 1
672	672	Section 4 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 2
673	673	U.S.C. 2013) is amended by adding at the end the fol-3
674	674	lowing: 4
675	675	‘‘(d) S
676	676	TATEMATCHINGFUNDS.— 5
677	677	‘‘(1) I
678	678	N GENERAL.—Each State that partici-6
679	679	pates in the supplemental nutrition assistance pro-7
680	680	gram shall, as a condition of participation, be re-8
681	681	quired to contribute matching funds in an amount 9
682	682	equal to, of the funds received from the Secretary by 10
683	683	the State for program administration— 11
684	684	‘‘(A) for fiscal year 2025, 10 percent; 12
685	685	‘‘(B) for fiscal year 2026, 15 percent; 13
686	686	‘‘(C) for fiscal year 2027, 20 percent; 14
687	687	‘‘(D) for fiscal year 2028, 25 percent; 15
688	688	‘‘(E) for fiscal year 2029, 30 percent; 16
689	689	‘‘(F) for fiscal year 2030, 35 percent; 17
690	690	‘‘(G) for fiscal year 2031, 40 percent; 18
691	691	‘‘(H) for fiscal year 2032, 45 percent; and 19
692	692	‘‘(I) for fiscal year 2033 and each fiscal 20
693	693	year thereafter, 50 percent. 21
694	694	‘‘(2) A
695	695	DDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS PER -22
696	696	MITTED.—Nothing in this subsection prevents a 23
697	697	State from contributing matching funds in an 24
698	698	amount greater than the amount required under 25
699	699	paragraph (1) for the applicable fiscal year.’’. 26
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703	703	SEC. 204. ELIGIBILITY. 1
704	704	Section 5(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 2
705	705	(7 U.S.C. 2014(a)) is amended— 3
706	706	(1) in the second sentence, by inserting ‘‘that 4
707	707	are limited to families whose income and resources 5
708	708	satisfy financial need criteria established in accord-6
709	709	ance with subsections (c) and (g) by the State for 7
710	710	receipt of the benefits’’ after ‘‘(42 U.S.C. 601 et 8
711	711	seq.)’’; and 9
712	712	(2) by inserting after the second sentence the 10
713	713	following: ‘‘To be deemed eligible for participation in 11
714	714	the supplemental nutrition assistance program under 12
715	715	this subsection, a household shall receive a cash or 13
716	716	noncash means-tested public benefit for at least 6 14
717	717	consecutive months valued at not less than $50.’’. 15
718	718	SEC. 205. COMPLIANCE WITH FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS. 16
719	719	Section 6(d) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 17
720	720	(7 U.S.C. 2015(d)) is amended by adding at the end the 18
721	721	following: 19
722	722	‘‘(5) C
723	723	OMPLIANCE WITH FRAUD INVESTIGA -20
724	724	TIONS.—To be eligible to participate in the supple-21
725	725	mental nutrition assistance program, an individual 22
726	726	shall cooperate with any investigation into fraud 23
727	727	under that program, including full participation in 24
728	728	any— 25
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732	732	‘‘(A) meeting requested by fraud investiga-1
733	733	tors; and 2
734	734	‘‘(B) administrative hearing.’’. 3
735	735	SEC. 206. AUTHORIZED USERS OF ELECTRONIC BENEFIT 4
736	736	TRANSFER CARDS. 5
737	737	Section 7(h) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 6
738	738	(7 U.S.C. 2016(h)) is amended by adding at the end the 7
739	739	following: 8
740	740	‘‘(15) A
741	741	UTHORIZED USERS.— 9
742	742	‘‘(A) I
743	743	N GENERAL.—A State agency shall 10
744	744	register— 11
745	745	‘‘(i) at least 1 member of a household 12
746	746	issued an EBT card as an authorized user 13
747	747	of the card; and 14
748	748	‘‘(ii) an authorized representative of a 15
749	749	household as an authorized user of the 16
750	750	EBT card issued to the household. 17
751	751	‘‘(B) L
752	752	IMIT.—Not more than 5 individuals 18
753	753	shall be registered as authorized users, includ-19
754	754	ing the authorized representative of a house-20
755	755	hold, on an EBT card. 21
756	756	‘‘(C) U
757	757	NAUTHORIZED USE.— 22
758	758	‘‘(i) I
759	759	N GENERAL.—An EBT card 23
760	760	shall not be used by any individual who is 24
761	761	not an authorized user of the EBT card. 25
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765	765	‘‘(ii) 2 UNAUTHORIZED USES .—If an 1
766	766	EBT card has been used 2 times by an un-2
767	767	authorized user of the EBT card, the head 3
768	768	of the household to which the EBT card is 4
769	769	issued shall be required to review program 5
770	770	rights and responsibilities with personnel 6
771	771	of the State agency. 7
772	772	‘‘(iii) 4
773	773	UNAUTHORIZED USES .—If an 8
774	774	EBT card has been used 4 times by an un-9
775	775	authorized user of the EBT card, the State 10
776	776	agency shall suspend benefits for the 11
777	777	household to which the EBT card is issued 12
778	778	for 1 month. 13
779	779	‘‘(iv) 6
780	780	UNAUTHORIZED USES .—If an 14
781	781	EBT card has been used 6 times by an un-15
782	782	authorized user of the EBT card, the State 16
783	783	agency shall suspend benefits for the 17
784	784	household to which the EBT card is issued 18
785	785	for 3 months. 19
786	786	‘‘(v) 7
787	787	OR MORE UNAUTHORIZED 20
788	788	USES.—If an EBT card has been used 7 21
789	789	or more times by an unauthorized user of 22
790	790	the EBT card, the State agency shall sus-23
791	791	pend benefits for the household to which 24
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795	795	the EBT card is issued for 1 month per 1
796	796	unauthorized use. 2
797	797	‘‘(vi) A
798	798	DMINISTRATION.—Any action 3
799	799	taken under clauses (ii) through (v) shall 4
800	800	be consistent with sections 6(b) and 5
801	801	11(e)(10), as applicable.’’. 6
802	802	SEC. 207. REAUTHORIZATION OF MEDIUM- OR HIGH-RISK 7
803	803	RETAIL FOOD STORES AND WHOLESALE 8
804	804	FOOD CONCERNS. 9
805	805	Section 9(a)(2)(A) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 10
806	806	2008 (7 U.S.C. 2018(a)(2)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘; 11
807	807	and’’ and inserting ‘‘, which, in the case of a retail food 12
808	808	store or wholesale food concern for which there is a me-13
809	809	dium risk or high risk of fraudulent transactions, as deter-14
810	810	mined by the fraud detection system of the Food and Nu-15
811	811	trition Service, shall be annually; and’’. 16
812	812	SEC. 208. STATE ACTIVITY REPORTS. 17
813	813	Section 11 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 18
814	814	(7 U.S.C. 2020) is amended by adding at the end the fol-19
815	815	lowing: 20
816	816	‘‘(y) S
817	817	TATEACTIVITYREPORTS.—The Secretary 21
818	818	shall publish for each fiscal year a report describing the 22
819	819	activity of each State in the supplemental nutrition assist-23
820	820	ance program, which shall contain, for the applicable fiscal 24
821	821	year, substantially the same information as is contained 25
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825	825	in the report published by the Food and Nutrition Service 1
826	826	entitled ‘Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program 2
827	827	State Activity Report Fiscal Year 2016’ and published 3
828	828	September 2017.’’. 4
829	829	SEC. 209. DISQUALIFICATION BY STATE AGENCY. 5
830	830	Section 12 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 6
831	831	(7 U.S.C. 2021) is amended by adding at the end the fol-7
832	832	lowing: 8
833	833	‘‘(j) D
834	834	ISQUALIFICATION BYSTATEAGENCY.— 9
835	835	‘‘(1) I
836	836	N GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-10
837	837	graph (4), a State agency shall permanently dis-11
838	838	qualify from participation in the supplemental nutri-12
839	839	tion assistance program an approved retail food 13
840	840	store or wholesale food concern convicted of— 14
841	841	‘‘(A) trafficking in food instruments (in-15
842	842	cluding any voucher, draft, check, or access de-16
843	843	vice (including an electronic benefit transfer 17
844	844	card or personal identification number) issued 18
845	845	in lieu of a food instrument under this Act); or 19
846	846	‘‘(B) selling firearms, ammunition, explo-20
847	847	sives, or controlled substances (as defined in 21
848	848	section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act 22
849	849	(21 U.S.C. 802)) in exchange for food instru-23
850	850	ments (including any item described in subpara-24
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854	854	graph (A) issued in lieu of a food instrument 1
855	855	under this Act). 2
856	856	‘‘(2) N
857	857	OTICE OF DISQUALIFICATION .—The 3
858	858	State agency shall— 4
859	859	‘‘(A) provide the approved retail food store 5
860	860	or wholesale food concern with notification of 6
861	861	the disqualification; and 7
862	862	‘‘(B) make the disqualification effective on 8
863	863	the date of receipt of the notice of disqualifica-9
864	864	tion. 10
865	865	‘‘(3) P
866	866	ROHIBITION OF RECEIPT OF LOST REVE -11
867	867	NUES.—A retail food store or wholesale food concern 12
868	868	shall not be entitled to receive any compensation for 13
869	869	revenues lost as a result of disqualification under 14
870	870	this subsection. 15
871	871	‘‘(4) E
872	872	XCEPTIONS IN LIEU OF DISQUALIFICA -16
873	873	TION.— 17
874	874	‘‘(A) I
875	875	N GENERAL.—A State agency may 18
876	876	permit a retail food store or wholesale food con-19
877	877	cern that, but for this paragraph, would be dis-20
878	878	qualified under paragraph (1), to continue to 21
879	879	participate in the supplemental nutrition assist-22
880	880	ance program if the State agency determines, in 23
881	881	its sole discretion, that— 24
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885	885	‘‘(i) disqualification of the retail food 1
886	886	store or wholesale food concern, as applica-2
887	887	ble, would cause hardship to participants 3
888	888	in the supplemental nutrition assistance 4
889	889	program; or 5
890	890	‘‘(ii)(I) the retail food store or whole-6
891	891	sale food concern had, at the time of the 7
892	892	violation under paragraph (1), an effective 8
893	893	policy and program in effect to prevent vio-9
894	894	lations described in paragraph (1); and 10
895	895	‘‘(II) the ownership of the retail food 11
896	896	store or wholesale food concern was not 12
897	897	aware of, did not approve of, and was not 13
898	898	involved in the conduct of the violation. 14
899	899	‘‘(B) C
900	900	IVIL PENALTY.—If a State agency 15
901	901	under subparagraph (A) permits a retail food 16
902	902	store or wholesale food concern to continue to 17
903	903	participate in the supplemental nutrition assist-18
904	904	ance program in lieu of disqualification, the 19
905	905	State agency shall assess a civil penalty in an 20
906	906	amount determined by the State agency, except 21
907	907	that— 22
908	908	‘‘(i) the amount of the civil penalty 23
909	909	shall not exceed $10,000 for each violation; 24
910	910	and 25
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914	914	‘‘(ii) the amount of civil penalties im-1
915	915	posed for violations investigated as part of 2
916	916	a single investigation may not exceed 3
917	917	$40,000. 4
918	918	‘‘(C) R
919	919	EPORTING.— 5
920	920	‘‘(i) T
921	921	O THE SECRETARY.—If a State 6
922	922	agency under subparagraph (A) permits a 7
923	923	retail food store or wholesale food concern 8
924	924	to continue to participate in the supple-9
925	925	mental nutrition assistance program in lieu 10
926	926	of disqualification, the State agency shall 11
927	927	annually submit to the Secretary a report 12
928	928	describing the justification of the State 13
929	929	agency for that action. 14
930	930	‘‘(ii) T
931	931	O CONGRESS.—The Secretary 15
932	932	shall annually submit to Congress a report 16
933	933	compiling the information contained in re-17
934	934	ports submitted to the Secretary under 18
935	935	clause (i).’’. 19
936	936	SEC. 210. RETENTION OF RECAPTURED FUNDS BY STATES. 20
937	937	Section 16(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 21
938	938	(7 U.S.C. 2025(a)) is amended— 22
939	939	(1) in the second sentence, by striking ‘‘The of-23
940	940	ficials’’ and inserting the following: 24
941	941	‘‘(3) P
942	942	ROHIBITION.—The officials’’; 25
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946	946	(2) in the first sentence— 1
947	947	(A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) 2
948	948	through (9) as subparagraphs (A) through (I), 3
949	949	respectively; and 4
950	950	(B) by striking ‘‘section 17(n): Provided, 5
951	951	That the Secretary’’ and inserting the following: 6
952	952	‘‘section 17(n). 7
953	953	‘‘(2) A
954	954	DMINISTRATION ON INDIAN RESERVA -8
955	955	TIONS AND IN NATIVE VILLAGES .— 9
956	956	‘‘(A) I
957	957	N GENERAL.—The Secretary’’; 10
958	958	(3) in paragraph (2) (as so designated)— 11
959	959	(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘35 12
960	960	percent’’ and inserting ‘‘50 percent’’; and 13
961	961	(B) by adding at the end the following: 14
962	962	‘‘(B) U
963	963	SE OF RETAINED AMOUNTS FOR 15
964	964	FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS .—The value of funds 16
965	965	or allotments recovered or collected pursuant to 17
966	966	sections 6(b) and 13(c) that are retained by a 18
967	967	State under subparagraph (A) in excess of 35 19
968	968	percent shall be used by the State for investiga-20
969	969	tions of fraud in the supplemental nutrition as-21
970	970	sistance program.’’; and 22
971	971	(4) by striking the subsection designation and 23
972	972	all that follows through ‘‘Subject to’’ in the matter 24
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976	976	preceding paragraph (2) (as so designated) and in-1
977	977	serting the following: 2
978	978	‘‘(a) A
979	979	DMINISTRATIVECOST-SHARING.— 3
980	980	‘‘(1) I
981	981	N GENERAL.—Subject to’’. 4
982	982	Æ
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