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4	4	STSESSION S. 1197
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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
10	10	MARCH27, 2025
11	11	Mr. L
12	12	EEintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to
13	13	the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
14	14	A BILL
15	15	To help individuals receiving assistance under the supple-
16	16	mental nutrition assistance program in obtaining self-
17	17	sufficiency, to provide information on total spending on
18	18	means-tested welfare programs, and for other purposes.
19	19	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
20	20	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
21	21	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
22	22	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘SNAP Reform and 4
23	23	Upward Mobility Act of 2025’’. 5
24	24	SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 6
25	25	The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 7
26	26	Sec. 1. Short title.
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30	30	Sec. 2. Table of contents.
31	31	TITLE I—POVERTY MEASUREMENT IMPROVEMENT
32	32	Sec. 101. Improving the measurement of poverty in the United States.
33	33	Sec. 102. Commission on valuation of government benefits.
34	34	Sec. 103. GAO reports on effect of supplementary data on calculation of pov-
35	35	erty rates and related measures.
36	36	Sec. 104. Rule of construction.
37	37	TITLE II—MODIFICATIONS TO SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION
38	38	ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
39	39	Sec. 201. Work requirements.
40	40	Sec. 202. Employment and training program outcomes reporting.
41	41	Sec. 203. State matching funds.
42	42	Sec. 204. Eligibility.
43	43	Sec. 205. Compliance with fraud investigations.
44	44	Sec. 206. Authorized users of electronic benefit transfer cards.
45	45	Sec. 207. Reauthorization of medium- or high-risk retail food stores and whole-
46	46	sale food concerns.
47	47	Sec. 208. State activity reports.
48	48	Sec. 209. Disqualification by State agency.
49	49	Sec. 210. Retention of recaptured funds by States.
50	50	TITLE I—POVERTY 1
51	51	MEASUREMENT IMPROVEMENT 2
52	52	SEC. 101. IMPROVING THE MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY IN 3
53	53	THE UNITED STATES. 4
54	54	(a) D
55	55	EFINITIONS.—In this section: 5
56	56	(1) F
57	57	EDERAL BENEFIT .—The term ‘‘Federal 6
58	58	benefit’’ means a benefit, refundable tax credit, or 7
59	59	other form of assistance provided under any of the 8
60	60	following programs: 9
61	61	(A) Earned Income Tax Credit (refundable 10
62	62	portion). 11
63	63	(B) Child Tax Credit (refundable portion). 12
64	64	(C) Supplemental Security Income. 13
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68	68	(D) Temporary Assistance for Needy Fam-1
69	69	ilies. 2
70	70	(E) Title IV–E Foster Care. 3
71	71	(F) Title IV–E Adoption Assistance. 4
72	72	(G) Medicaid. 5
73	73	(H) SCHIP. 6
74	74	(I) Indian Health Services. 7
75	75	(J) PPACA refundable premium assistance 8
76	76	and cost sharing tax credit. 9
77	77	(K) Assets for Independence program. 10
78	78	(L) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 11
79	79	Food Program. 12
80	80	(M) School Breakfast. 13
81	81	(N) School Lunch. 14
82	82	(O) Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) 15
83	83	Food Program. 16
84	84	(P) Child and Adult Care Food Program. 17
85	85	(Q) The Food Distribution Program on In-18
86	86	dian Reservations (FDPIR). 19
87	87	(R) Nutrition Program for the Elderly. 20
88	88	(S) Seniors Farmers’ Market Nutrition 21
89	89	Program. 22
90	90	(T) Commodity Supplemental Food Pro-23
91	91	gram. 24
92	92	(U) Section 8 Housing. 25
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96	96	(V) Public Housing. 1
97	97	(W) Housing for Persons with Disabilities. 2
98	98	(X) Home Investment Partnership Pro-3
99	99	gram. 4
100	100	(Y) Rural Housing Service. 5
101	101	(Z) Rural Housing Insurance Fund. 6
102	102	(AA) Low-Income Home Energy Assist-7
103	103	ance Program. 8
104	104	(BB) Universal Service Fund Low Income 9
105	105	Support Mechanism (subsidized phone services). 10
106	106	(CC) Pell Grants. 11
107	107	(DD) Supplemental Educational Oppor-12
108	108	tunity Grants. 13
109	109	(EE) American Opportunity Tax Credit 14
110	110	(refundable portion). 15
111	111	(FF) Healthy Start. 16
112	112	(GG) Job Corps. 17
113	113	(HH) Head Start (including Early Head 18
114	114	Start). 19
115	115	(II) Weatherization Assistance. 20
116	116	(JJ) Chafee Foster Care Independence 21
117	117	Program. 22
118	118	(KK) Child Care Subsidies from the Child 23
119	119	Care and Development Fund. 24
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123	123	(LL) Child Care from the Temporary As-1
124	124	sistance for Needy Families Block Grant. 2
125	125	(MM) Emergency Assistance to Needy 3
126	126	Families with Children. 4
127	127	(NN) Senior Community Service Employ-5
128	128	ment Program. 6
129	129	(OO) Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers 7
130	130	Training Program. 8
131	131	(PP) Indian and Native American Employ-9
132	132	ment and Training Program. 10
133	133	(QQ) Independent Living Education and 11
134	134	Training Vouchers. 12
135	135	(2) R
136	136	ESOURCE UNIT.—The term ‘‘resource 13
137	137	unit’’ means all co-resident individuals who are re-14
138	138	lated by birth, marriage, or adoption, plus any co- 15
139	139	resident unrelated children, foster children, and un-16
140	140	married partners and their relatives. 17
141	141	(3) M
142	142	ARKET INCOME.—The term ‘‘market in-18
143	143	come’’ means individual income from the following: 19
144	144	(A) Earnings. 20
145	145	(B) Interest. 21
146	146	(C) Dividends. 22
147	147	(D) Rents, royalties, and estates and 23
148	148	trusts. 24
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152	152	(E) The monetary value of employer-spon-1
153	153	sored health insurance benefits. 2
154	154	(F) Other forms of income, as determined 3
155	155	by the Director. 4
156	156	(4) E
157	157	NTITLEMENT AND OTHER INCOME .—The 5
158	158	term ‘‘entitlement and other income’’ means income 6
159	159	from the following: 7
160	160	(A) Unemployment (insurance) compensa-8
161	161	tion. 9
162	162	(B) Workers’ compensation. 10
163	163	(C) Social Security. 11
164	164	(D) Veterans’ payments and benefits. 12
165	165	(E) Survivor benefits. 13
166	166	(F) Disability benefits (not including bene-14
167	167	fits under the Supplemental Security Income 15
168	168	program). 16
169	169	(G) Pension or retirement income. 17
170	170	(H) Alimony. 18
171	171	(I) Child support. 19
172	172	(J) Financial assistance from outside of 20
173	173	the household. 21
174	174	(K) Medicare. 22
175	175	(5) E
176	176	NTITLEMENT AND EARNED UNIT IN -23
177	177	COME.—The term ‘‘entitlement and earned unit in-24
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181	181	come’’ means the sum of all market income and en-1
182	182	titlement and other income. 2
183	183	(6) I
184	184	NCOME TAX DATA.—The term ‘‘income tax 3
185	185	data’’ means return information, as such term is de-4
186	186	fined under section 6103(b)(2) of the Internal Rev-5
187	187	enue Code of 1986. 6
188	188	(7) A
189	189	DMINISTERING AGENCY .—The term ‘‘ad-7
190	190	ministering agency’’ means a State or Federal agen-8
191	191	cy responsible for administering a Federal benefit. 9
192	192	(8) T
193	193	OTAL RESOURCE UNIT INCOME .—The 10
194	194	term ‘‘total resource unit income’’ means, with re-11
195	195	spect to a resource unit, an amount equal to— 12
196	196	(A) the sum of— 13
197	197	(i) all market income attributable to 14
198	198	members of the unit; 15
199	199	(ii) all entitlement and other income 16
200	200	attributable to members of the unit; and 17
201	201	(iii) an amount, or cash equivalent, of 18
202	202	all Federal benefits received by members of 19
203	203	the unit; minus 20
204	204	(B) all State and Federal income and pay-21
205	205	roll taxes attributable to members of the unit. 22
206	206	(9) E
207	207	ARNED RESOURCE UNIT INCOME .—The 23
208	208	term ‘‘earned resource unit income’’ means, with re-24
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212	212	spect to a resource unit, all market income attrib-1
213	213	utable to members of the unit. 2
214	214	(10) P
215	215	ERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMA -3
216	216	TION.—The term ‘‘personally identifiable informa-4
217	217	tion’’ means any information that identifies an indi-5
218	218	vidual or could reasonably be used to identify an in-6
219	219	dividual that is— 7
220	220	(A) collected pursuant to a survey con-8
221	221	ducted by the Bureau of the Census; or 9
222	222	(B) disclosed to the Bureau of the Census 10
223	223	by an administering agency for the purpose of 11
224	224	carrying out subsection (b). 12
225	225	(11) D
226	226	IRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means 13
227	227	the Director of the Bureau of the Census. 14
228	228	(b) V
229	229	ERIFICATION OFDATACOLLECTED IN THEAN-15
230	230	NUALSOCIAL ANDECONOMICSUPPLEMENT TO THE CUR-16
231	231	RENTPOPULATIONSURVEY.— 17
232	232	(1) I
233	233	N GENERAL.—Beginning in fiscal year 18
234	234	2025, in order to more accurately determine the ex-19
235	235	tent of poverty in the United States and the anti- 20
236	236	poverty effectiveness of Federal benefit programs, 21
237	237	the Director shall collect, in addition to the data col-22
238	238	lected under the Annual Social and Economic Sup-23
239	239	plement to the Current Population Survey, data 24
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243	243	from the appropriate administering agencies related 1
244	244	to the following: 2
245	245	(A) Participation in any Federal benefit 3
246	246	program and the monetary or cash equivalent 4
247	247	value of such benefit for an individual, where 5
248	248	possible, and otherwise for resource units or 6
249	249	households. 7
250	250	(B) The total amount of market income 8
251	251	for individuals. 9
252	252	(C) The total amount of entitlement and 10
253	253	other income for individuals. 11
254	254	(D) Payment of income taxes and payroll 12
255	255	taxes for individuals. 13
256	256	(E) Total resource unit income. 14
257	257	(F) Total earned resource unit income. 15
258	258	(G) Any other information about benefits 16
259	259	or income received by individuals that the Di-17
260	260	rector determines necessary to carry out this 18
261	261	section and that is not included in the data re-19
262	262	lating to participation in Federal benefit pro-20
263	263	grams or market income for individuals. 21
264	264	(2) A
265	265	DMINISTERING AGENCY DATA .—Not later 22
266	266	than 6 months after receiving a request from the Di-23
267	267	rector, the head of each administering agency shall 24
268	268	make available to the Director such data (including 25
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272	272	income tax data) as the Director shall require for 1
273	273	the purpose of carrying out this subsection and for 2
274	274	the purposes outlined in section 6 of title 13, United 3
275	275	States Code. 4
276	276	(3) P
277	277	UBLICATION OF DATA.— 5
278	278	(A) R
279	279	ATES AND OTHER DATA .— 6
280	280	(i) R
281	281	EPORT.—The Director shall sub-7
282	282	mit to Congress, not later than January 1, 8
283	283	2026, a report detailing the implementa-9
284	284	tion of this section, including— 10
285	285	(I) the availability of related 11
286	286	data; 12
287	287	(II) the quality of the data; and 13
288	288	(III) the methodology proposed 14
289	289	for assigning dollar values to the re-15
290	290	ceipt of noncash Federal benefits. 16
291	291	(ii) T
292	292	ABLES AND GRAPHS .—The Di-17
293	293	rector shall produce tables and graphs 18
294	294	showing for each year the poverty rates 19
295	295	and related data calculated using data col-20
296	296	lected under paragraph (1), including— 21
297	297	(I) the total resource unit income 22
298	298	for survey respondents; 23
299	299	(II) the total earned resource 24
300	300	unit income for survey respondents; 25
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304	304	(III) the total of all amounts de-1
305	305	scribed in subparagraphs (A) through 2
306	306	(G) of paragraph (1) that are received 3
307	307	by survey respondents; 4
308	308	(IV) a breakdown of the amount 5
309	309	of income taxes and payroll taxes at-6
310	310	tributable to survey respondents; and 7
311	311	(V) for 2027 and subsequent 8
312	312	years, poverty rates calculated using 9
313	313	updated poverty thresholds as de-10
314	314	scribed in clause (iii). 11
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316	316	PDATED POVERTY THRESH -12
317	317	OLDS.—For 2027 and subsequent years, 13
318	318	the Director shall, in addition to the offi-14
319	319	cial poverty line (as defined by the Office 15
320	320	of Management and Budget) and the sup-16
321	321	plemental poverty measure, provide an al-17
322	322	ternative poverty measure that uses the 18
323	323	personal consumption expenditure price 19
324	324	index (as published by the Bureau of Eco-20
325	325	nomic Analysis) and accounts for the data 21
326	326	collected under paragraph (1). The Direc-22
327	327	tor shall provide a comparison of the offi-23
328	328	cial poverty line (as defined by the Office 24
329	329	of Management and Budget), the supple-25
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333	333	mental poverty measure rate as defined by 1
334	334	the Bureau of the Census, and the alter-2
335	335	native poverty rate created using the alter-3
336	336	native poverty measure under this section. 4
337	337	(iv) R
338	338	ULE OF CONSTRUCTION .—The 5
339	339	Office of Management and Budget shall 6
340	340	not use the additional data collected by the 7
341	341	Director pursuant to paragraph (1) for 8
342	342	purposes of defining the official poverty 9
343	343	line. 10
344	344	(B) C
345	345	ONFIDENTIALITY.—Consistent with 11
346	346	the provisions of sections 8, 9, and 23(c) of title 12
347	347	13, United States Code, the Director shall en-13
348	348	sure the confidentiality of information furnished 14
349	349	to the Director under this subsection. 15
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351	351	ROTECTION AND DISCLOSURE OFPERSONALLY 16
352	352	I
353	353	DENTIFIABLEINFORMATION.— 17
354	354	(1) I
355	355	N GENERAL.—The security, disclosure, and 18
356	356	confidentiality provisions set forth in sections 9 and 19
357	357	23 of title 13, United States Code, shall apply to 20
358	358	personally identifiable information obtained by the 21
359	359	Bureau of the Census pursuant to this section. 22
360	360	(2) R
361	361	ESTRICTED ACCESS TO PERSONALLY 23
362	362	IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION .—Access to personally 24
363	363	identifiable information collected to supplement the 25
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367	367	restricted-use Current Population Survey Annual So-1
368	368	cial and Economic Supplements in accordance with 2
369	369	subsection (b)(1) shall be available only to those who 3
370	370	have access to the Current Population Survey data 4
371	371	with the permission of the Bureau of the Census and 5
372	372	in accordance with any other applicable provision of 6
373	373	law. 7
374	374	(3) P
375	375	ENALTIES.—Any individual who knowingly 8
376	376	accesses or discloses personally identifiable informa-9
377	377	tion in violation of this section shall be guilty of a 10
378	378	felony and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in 11
379	379	an amount of not more than $300,000 under title 12
380	380	18, United States Code, or imprisoned for not more 13
381	381	than five years, or both. 14
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383	383	TATEREPORTING OFFEDERALDATA.—Begin-15
384	384	ning with the first full calendar year that begins after the 16
385	385	date of enactment of this Act, with respect to any Federal 17
386	386	benefit that is administered at the State level by a State 18
387	387	administering agency, such State administering agency 19
388	388	shall submit each year to the Federal administering agen-20
389	389	cy responsible for administering the benefit at the Federal 21
390	390	level a report that identifies each resource unit that re-22
391	391	ceived such benefits during such year by the personally 23
392	392	identifiable information of the head of the resource unit 24
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396	396	and the amount, or cash equivalent, of such benefit re-1
397	397	ceived by such resource unit. 2
398	398	SEC. 102. COMMISSION ON VALUATION OF GOVERNMENT 3
399	399	BENEFITS. 4
400	400	(a) E
401	401	STABLISHMENT.—There is established within 5
402	402	the United States Census Bureau a commission, to be 6
403	403	known as the ‘‘Commission on Valuation of Federal Bene-7
404	404	fits’’ (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Commission’’). 8
405	405	(b) C
406	406	OMPOSITION.— 9
407	407	(1) I
408	408	N GENERAL.—The Commission shall be 10
409	409	composed of 8 members, of whom— 11
410	410	(A) 2 members shall be appointed by the 12
411	411	majority leader of the Senate; 13
412	412	(B) 2 members shall be appointed by the 14
413	413	minority leader of the Senate; 15
414	414	(C) 2 members shall be appointed by the 16
415	415	Speaker of the House of Representatives; and 17
416	416	(D) 2 members shall be appointed by the 18
417	417	minority leader of the House of Representa-19
418	418	tives. 20
419	419	(2) C
420	420	O-CHAIRS.—Of the members of the Com-21
421	421	mission— 22
422	422	(A) 1 co-chair shall be designated by the 23
423	423	majority leader of the Senate; and 24
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427	427	(B) 1 co-chair shall be designated by the 1
428	428	Speaker of the House of Representatives. 2
429	429	(3) Q
430	430	UALIFICATIONS.—Each member appointed 3
431	431	to the Commission shall have experience in— 4
432	432	(A) quantitative policy research; and 5
433	433	(B) welfare or poverty studies. 6
434	434	(c) I
435	435	NITIALMEETING.—Not later than 60 days after 7
436	436	the date on which the last member is appointed under sub-8
437	437	section (b), the Commission shall hold an initial meeting. 9
438	438	(d) Q
439	439	UORUM.—Six members of the Commission shall 10
440	440	constitute a quorum. 11
441	441	(e) N
442	442	OPROXYVOTING.—Proxy voting by members 12
443	443	of the Commission shall be prohibited. 13
444	444	(f) S
445	445	TAFF.—The Director of the Census Bureau shall 14
446	446	appoint an executive director of the Commission. 15
447	447	(g) T
448	448	RAVELEXPENSES.—Members of the Commis-16
449	449	sion shall serve without pay, but shall receive travel ex-17
450	450	penses in accordance with sections 5702 and 5703 of title 18
451	451	5, United States Code. 19
452	452	(h) D
453	453	UTIES OFCOMMISSION.— 20
454	454	(1) R
455	455	ECOMMENDATIONS .— 21
456	456	(A) I
457	457	N GENERAL.—The Commission shall 22
458	458	produce recommendations for the valuation of 23
459	459	Federal benefits listed under section 101(a)(1) 24
460	460	for the purpose of United States Census Bu-25
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464	464	reau estimates of the Federal Poverty Level, in-1
465	465	cluding non-cash benefits. 2
466	466	(2) R
467	467	EPORT.— 3
468	468	(A) I
469	469	N GENERAL.—Not later than 270 4
470	470	days after the date of enactment of this Act, 5
471	471	the Commission shall submit to Congress a re-6
472	472	port of the recommendations required under 7
473	473	paragraph (1), including a detailed statement of 8
474	474	methodology and reasoning behind rec-9
475	475	ommendations. 10
476	476	(B) P
477	477	UBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The report 11
478	478	required by subparagraph (A) shall be made 12
479	479	available on an internet website of the United 13
480	480	States Government that is available to the pub-14
481	481	lic. 15
482	482	(i) P
483	483	OWERS OFCOMMISSION.—On request by the ex-16
484	484	ecutive director of the Commission, the head of a Federal 17
485	485	agency shall furnish information to the Commission. 18
486	486	(j) T
487	487	ERMINATION OF COMMISSION.—The Commis-19
488	488	sion shall terminate 90 days after the date on which the 20
489	489	Commission submits the report under subsection (h)(2). 21
490	490	(k) A
491	491	UTHORIZATION OFAPPROPRIATIONS.—There is 22
492	492	authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 to carry out this 23
493	493	section. 24
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497	497	SEC. 103. GAO REPORTS ON EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTARY 1
498	498	DATA ON CALCULATION OF POVERTY RATES 2
499	499	AND RELATED MEASURES. 3
500	500	Not later than January 1, 2028, and every 2 years 4
501	501	thereafter, the Comptroller General of the United States 5
502	502	shall submit to Congress a report that compares the pov-6
503	503	erty rates and related measures calculated under the An-7
504	504	nual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Pop-8
505	505	ulation Survey with the poverty rates and related meas-9
506	506	ures calculated using the data collected under section 10
507	507	101(b)(1). 11
508	508	SEC. 104. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 12
509	509	Nothing in this title shall be construed to affect the 13
510	510	eligibility of an individual or household for a Federal ben-14
511	511	efit. 15
512	512	TITLE II—MODIFICATIONS TO 16
513	513	SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION 17
514	514	ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 18
515	515	SEC. 201. WORK REQUIREMENTS. 19
516	516	(a) D
517	517	ECLARATION OF POLICY.—Section 2 of the 20
518	518	Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011) is 21
519	519	amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘Congress 22
520	520	further finds that it should also be the purpose of the sup-23
521	521	plemental nutrition assistance program to increase em-24
522	522	ployment, to encourage healthy marriage, and to promote 25
523	523	prosperous self-sufficiency, which means the ability of 26
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527	527	households to maintain an income above the poverty level 1
528	528	without services and benefits from the Federal Govern-2
529	529	ment.’’. 3
530	530	(b) D
531	531	EFINITION OFFOOD.—Section 3(k) of the Food 4
532	532	and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012(k)) is amended 5
533	533	by striking ‘‘means (1)’’ and inserting ‘‘means the fol-6
534	534	lowing foods, food products, meals, and other items, only 7
535	535	if the food, food product, meal, or other item is essential, 8
536	536	as determined by the Secretary: (1)’’. 9
537	537	(c) G
538	538	ENERAL WORKREQUIREMENTS.—Section 10
539	539	6(d)(1)(A) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 11
540	540	U.S.C. 2015(d)(1)(A)) is amended, in the matter pre-12
541	541	ceding clause (i), by striking ‘‘60’’ and inserting ‘‘65’’. 13
542	542	(d) H
543	543	OUR-BASEDWORKREQUIREMENT.—Section 14
544	544	6(o) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 15
545	545	2015(o)) is amended— 16
546	546	(1) in paragraph (1)(C), by striking ‘‘other 17
547	547	than a supervised job search program or job search 18
548	548	training program’’ and inserting ‘‘including an in- 19
549	549	person supervised job search program’’; 20
550	550	(2) in paragraph (3)(A)(ii)(III), by striking 21
551	551	‘‘55’’ and inserting ‘‘64’’; 22
552	552	(3) in paragraph (4)(A)— 23
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556	556	(A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by 1
557	557	striking ‘‘area’’ and inserting ‘‘county or county 2
558	558	equivalent’’; 3
559	559	(B) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘or’’ and in-4
560	560	serting ‘‘and’’; and 5
561	561	(C) by striking clause (ii) and inserting the 6
562	562	following: 7
563	563	‘‘(ii) is not located within a labor mar-8
564	564	ket area, as determined by data published 9
565	565	by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that has 10
566	566	an unemployment rate of over 10 per-11
567	567	cent.’’; 12
568	568	(4) in paragraph (6)(D), by striking ‘‘15 per-13
569	569	cent’’ and inserting ‘‘5 percent’’; 14
570	570	(5) by redesignating paragraph (7) as para-15
571	571	graph (8); 16
572	572	(6) by inserting after paragraph (6) the fol-17
573	573	lowing: 18
574	574	‘‘(7) W
575	575	ORK OR WORK PREPARATION HOURS RE -19
576	576	QUIREMENT FOR MARRIED COUPLES WITH CHIL -20
577	577	DREN.—The total combined number of hours of 21
578	578	work or work preparation activities under subpara-22
579	579	graphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (2) for both 23
580	580	spouses in a married couple household with 1 or 24
581	581	more children over the age of 6 shall not be greater 25
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585	585	than the total number of hours required under those 1
586	586	subparagraphs for a single head of household.’’; and 2
587	587	(7) by inserting after paragraph (8) (as so re-3
588	588	designated) the following: 4
589	589	‘‘(9) M
590	590	INIMUM WAGE RULE .—The limitation 5
591	591	under subsection (d)(4)(F)(i) shall not apply to any 6
592	592	work requirement, program, or activity required 7
593	593	under this subsection.’’. 8
594	594	SEC. 202. EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAM OUT-9
595	595	COMES REPORTING. 10
596	596	Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 11
597	597	of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to 12
598	598	Congress a report, using data from the most recent 5 fis-13
599	599	cal years available, detailing the outcomes of beneficiaries 14
600	600	of the supplemental nutrition assistance program estab-15
601	601	lished under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 16
602	602	U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) (referred to in this section as 17
603	603	‘‘SNAP’’) who participate in employment and training 18
604	604	programs (as defined in section 6(d)(4)(B) of that Act (7 19
605	605	U.S.C. 2015(d)(4)(B))) for each of those 5 years that in-20
606	606	cludes the following information: 21
607	607	(1) The number and percentage of SNAP bene-22
608	608	ficiaries in each State who participated in an em-23
609	609	ployment and training program compared to the 24
610	610	number and percentage of SNAP beneficiaries in 25
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614	614	each State who did not participate in an employment 1
615	615	and training program. 2
616	616	(2) The number and percentage of SNAP bene-3
617	617	ficiaries in each State who obtained a job while par-4
618	618	ticipating in an employment and training program 5
619	619	compared to the number and percentage of SNAP 6
620	620	beneficiaries in each State who obtained a job but 7
621	621	did not participate in an employment and training 8
622	622	program. 9
623	623	(3) The number and percentage of SNAP bene-10
624	624	ficiaries in each State who retained a job for 6 11
625	625	months, 1 year, and 5 years after completing an em-12
626	626	ployment and training program and obtaining a job 13
627	627	compared to the number and percentage of SNAP 14
628	628	beneficiaries in each State who retained a job for 6 15
629	629	months, 1 year, and 5 years but did not complete an 16
630	630	employment and training program prior to obtaining 17
631	631	that job. 18
632	632	(4) The increase or decrease in wages, if appli-19
633	633	cable, for SNAP beneficiaries in each State who re-20
634	634	tained a job for 6 months, 1 year, and 5 years after 21
635	635	completing an employment and training program 22
636	636	and obtaining a job compared to the increase or de-23
637	637	crease in wages, if applicable, for SNAP bene-24
638	638	ficiaries in each State who retained a job for 6 25
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642	642	months, 1 year, and 5 years but did not complete an 1
643	643	employment and training program prior to obtaining 2
644	644	that job. 3
645	645	(5) The number and percentage of SNAP bene-4
646	646	ficiaries who— 5
647	647	(A) previously participated in an employ-6
648	648	ment and training program; 7
649	649	(B) after that participation, obtained a job 8
650	650	or stopped receiving SNAP benefits; and 9
651	651	(C) after regaining eligibility for SNAP 10
652	652	benefits, reentered an employment or training 11
653	653	program. 12
654	654	(6) The average duration that SNAP bene-13
655	655	ficiaries in each State participated in an employment 14
656	656	and training program. 15
657	657	(7) A breakdown of— 16
658	658	(A) the types of employment and training 17
659	659	activities offered by the employment and train-18
660	660	ing program of each State; and 19
661	661	(B) the types of jobs that States are pre-20
662	662	paring employment and training program par-21
663	663	ticipants to obtain. 22
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667	667	SEC. 203. STATE MATCHING FUNDS. 1
668	668	Section 4 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 2
669	669	U.S.C. 2013) is amended by adding at the end the fol-3
670	670	lowing: 4
671	671	‘‘(d) S
672	672	TATEMATCHINGFUNDS.— 5
673	673	‘‘(1) I
674	674	N GENERAL.—Each State that partici-6
675	675	pates in the supplemental nutrition assistance pro-7
676	676	gram shall, as a condition of participation, be re-8
677	677	quired to contribute matching funds in an amount 9
678	678	equal to, of the funds received from the Secretary by 10
679	679	the State for program administration— 11
680	680	‘‘(A) for fiscal year 2025, 10 percent; 12
681	681	‘‘(B) for fiscal year 2026, 15 percent; 13
682	682	‘‘(C) for fiscal year 2027, 20 percent; 14
683	683	‘‘(D) for fiscal year 2028, 25 percent; 15
684	684	‘‘(E) for fiscal year 2029, 30 percent; 16
685	685	‘‘(F) for fiscal year 2030, 35 percent; 17
686	686	‘‘(G) for fiscal year 2031, 40 percent; 18
687	687	‘‘(H) for fiscal year 2032, 45 percent; and 19
688	688	‘‘(I) for fiscal year 2033 and each fiscal 20
689	689	year thereafter, 50 percent. 21
690	690	‘‘(2) A
691	691	DDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS PER -22
692	692	MITTED.—Nothing in this subsection prevents a 23
693	693	State from contributing matching funds in an 24
694	694	amount greater than the amount required under 25
695	695	paragraph (1) for the applicable fiscal year.’’. 26
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699	699	SEC. 204. ELIGIBILITY. 1
700	700	Section 5(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 2
701	701	(7 U.S.C. 2014(a)) is amended— 3
702	702	(1) in the second sentence, by inserting ‘‘that 4
703	703	are limited to families whose income and resources 5
704	704	satisfy financial need criteria established in accord-6
705	705	ance with subsections (c) and (g) by the State for 7
706	706	receipt of the benefits’’ after ‘‘(42 U.S.C. 601 et 8
707	707	seq.)’’; and 9
708	708	(2) by inserting after the second sentence the 10
709	709	following: ‘‘To be deemed eligible for participation in 11
710	710	the supplemental nutrition assistance program under 12
711	711	this subsection, a household shall receive a cash or 13
712	712	noncash means-tested public benefit for at least 6 14
713	713	consecutive months valued at not less than $50.’’. 15
714	714	SEC. 205. COMPLIANCE WITH FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS. 16
715	715	Section 6(d) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 17
716	716	(7 U.S.C. 2015(d)) is amended by adding at the end the 18
717	717	following: 19
718	718	‘‘(5) C
719	719	OMPLIANCE WITH FRAUD INVESTIGA -20
720	720	TIONS.—To be eligible to participate in the supple-21
721	721	mental nutrition assistance program, an individual 22
722	722	shall cooperate with any investigation into fraud 23
723	723	under that program, including full participation in 24
724	724	any— 25
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728	728	‘‘(A) meeting requested by fraud investiga-1
729	729	tors; and 2
730	730	‘‘(B) administrative hearing.’’. 3
731	731	SEC. 206. AUTHORIZED USERS OF ELECTRONIC BENEFIT 4
732	732	TRANSFER CARDS. 5
733	733	Section 7(h) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 6
734	734	(7 U.S.C. 2016(h)) is amended by adding at the end the 7
735	735	following: 8
736	736	‘‘(15) A
737	737	UTHORIZED USERS.— 9
738	738	‘‘(A) I
739	739	N GENERAL.—A State agency shall 10
740	740	register— 11
741	741	‘‘(i) at least 1 member of a household 12
742	742	issued an EBT card as an authorized user 13
743	743	of the card; and 14
744	744	‘‘(ii) an authorized representative of a 15
745	745	household as an authorized user of the 16
746	746	EBT card issued to the household. 17
747	747	‘‘(B) L
748	748	IMIT.—Not more than 5 individuals 18
749	749	shall be registered as authorized users, includ-19
750	750	ing the authorized representative of a house-20
751	751	hold, on an EBT card. 21
752	752	‘‘(C) U
753	753	NAUTHORIZED USE.— 22
754	754	‘‘(i) I
755	755	N GENERAL.—An EBT card 23
756	756	shall not be used by any individual who is 24
757	757	not an authorized user of the EBT card. 25
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761	761	‘‘(ii) 2 UNAUTHORIZED USES .—If an 1
762	762	EBT card has been used 2 times by an un-2
763	763	authorized user of the EBT card, the head 3
764	764	of the household to which the EBT card is 4
765	765	issued shall be required to review program 5
766	766	rights and responsibilities with personnel 6
767	767	of the State agency. 7
768	768	‘‘(iii) 4
769	769	UNAUTHORIZED USES .—If an 8
770	770	EBT card has been used 4 times by an un-9
771	771	authorized user of the EBT card, the State 10
772	772	agency shall suspend benefits for the 11
773	773	household to which the EBT card is issued 12
774	774	for 1 month. 13
775	775	‘‘(iv) 6
776	776	UNAUTHORIZED USES .—If an 14
777	777	EBT card has been used 6 times by an un-15
778	778	authorized user of the EBT card, the State 16
779	779	agency shall suspend benefits for the 17
780	780	household to which the EBT card is issued 18
781	781	for 3 months. 19
782	782	‘‘(v) 7
783	783	OR MORE UNAUTHORIZED 20
784	784	USES.—If an EBT card has been used 7 21
785	785	or more times by an unauthorized user of 22
786	786	the EBT card, the State agency shall sus-23
787	787	pend benefits for the household to which 24
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791	791	the EBT card is issued for 1 month per 1
792	792	unauthorized use. 2
793	793	‘‘(vi) A
794	794	DMINISTRATION.—Any action 3
795	795	taken under clauses (ii) through (v) shall 4
796	796	be consistent with sections 6(b) and 5
797	797	11(e)(10), as applicable.’’. 6
798	798	SEC. 207. REAUTHORIZATION OF MEDIUM- OR HIGH-RISK 7
799	799	RETAIL FOOD STORES AND WHOLESALE 8
800	800	FOOD CONCERNS. 9
801	801	Section 9(a)(2)(A) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 10
802	802	2008 (7 U.S.C. 2018(a)(2)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘; 11
803	803	and’’ and inserting ‘‘, which, in the case of a retail food 12
804	804	store or wholesale food concern for which there is a me-13
805	805	dium risk or high risk of fraudulent transactions, as deter-14
806	806	mined by the fraud detection system of the Food and Nu-15
807	807	trition Service, shall be annually; and’’. 16
808	808	SEC. 208. STATE ACTIVITY REPORTS. 17
809	809	Section 11 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 18
810	810	(7 U.S.C. 2020) is amended by adding at the end the fol-19
811	811	lowing: 20
812	812	‘‘(y) S
813	813	TATEACTIVITYREPORTS.—The Secretary 21
814	814	shall publish for each fiscal year a report describing the 22
815	815	activity of each State in the supplemental nutrition assist-23
816	816	ance program, which shall contain, for the applicable fiscal 24
817	817	year, substantially the same information as is contained 25
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821	821	in the report published by the Food and Nutrition Service 1
822	822	entitled ‘Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program 2
823	823	State Activity Report Fiscal Year 2016’ and published 3
824	824	September 2017.’’. 4
825	825	SEC. 209. DISQUALIFICATION BY STATE AGENCY. 5
826	826	Section 12 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 6
827	827	(7 U.S.C. 2021) is amended by adding at the end the fol-7
828	828	lowing: 8
829	829	‘‘(j) D
830	830	ISQUALIFICATION BYSTATEAGENCY.— 9
831	831	‘‘(1) I
832	832	N GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-10
833	833	graph (4), a State agency shall permanently dis-11
834	834	qualify from participation in the supplemental nutri-12
835	835	tion assistance program an approved retail food 13
836	836	store or wholesale food concern convicted of— 14
837	837	‘‘(A) trafficking in food instruments (in-15
838	838	cluding any voucher, draft, check, or access de-16
839	839	vice (including an electronic benefit transfer 17
840	840	card or personal identification number) issued 18
841	841	in lieu of a food instrument under this Act); or 19
842	842	‘‘(B) selling firearms, ammunition, explo-20
843	843	sives, or controlled substances (as defined in 21
844	844	section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act 22
845	845	(21 U.S.C. 802)) in exchange for food instru-23
846	846	ments (including any item described in subpara-24
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850	850	graph (A) issued in lieu of a food instrument 1
851	851	under this Act). 2
852	852	‘‘(2) N
853	853	OTICE OF DISQUALIFICATION .—The 3
854	854	State agency shall— 4
855	855	‘‘(A) provide the approved retail food store 5
856	856	or wholesale food concern with notification of 6
857	857	the disqualification; and 7
858	858	‘‘(B) make the disqualification effective on 8
859	859	the date of receipt of the notice of disqualifica-9
860	860	tion. 10
861	861	‘‘(3) P
862	862	ROHIBITION OF RECEIPT OF LOST REVE -11
863	863	NUES.—A retail food store or wholesale food concern 12
864	864	shall not be entitled to receive any compensation for 13
865	865	revenues lost as a result of disqualification under 14
866	866	this subsection. 15
867	867	‘‘(4) E
868	868	XCEPTIONS IN LIEU OF DISQUALIFICA -16
869	869	TION.— 17
870	870	‘‘(A) I
871	871	N GENERAL.—A State agency may 18
872	872	permit a retail food store or wholesale food con-19
873	873	cern that, but for this paragraph, would be dis-20
874	874	qualified under paragraph (1), to continue to 21
875	875	participate in the supplemental nutrition assist-22
876	876	ance program if the State agency determines, in 23
877	877	its sole discretion, that— 24
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881	881	‘‘(i) disqualification of the retail food 1
882	882	store or wholesale food concern, as applica-2
883	883	ble, would cause hardship to participants 3
884	884	in the supplemental nutrition assistance 4
885	885	program; or 5
886	886	‘‘(ii)(I) the retail food store or whole-6
887	887	sale food concern had, at the time of the 7
888	888	violation under paragraph (1), an effective 8
889	889	policy and program in effect to prevent vio-9
890	890	lations described in paragraph (1); and 10
891	891	‘‘(II) the ownership of the retail food 11
892	892	store or wholesale food concern was not 12
893	893	aware of, did not approve of, and was not 13
894	894	involved in the conduct of the violation. 14
895	895	‘‘(B) C
896	896	IVIL PENALTY.—If a State agency 15
897	897	under subparagraph (A) permits a retail food 16
898	898	store or wholesale food concern to continue to 17
899	899	participate in the supplemental nutrition assist-18
900	900	ance program in lieu of disqualification, the 19
901	901	State agency shall assess a civil penalty in an 20
902	902	amount determined by the State agency, except 21
903	903	that— 22
904	904	‘‘(i) the amount of the civil penalty 23
905	905	shall not exceed $10,000 for each violation; 24
906	906	and 25
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910	910	‘‘(ii) the amount of civil penalties im-1
911	911	posed for violations investigated as part of 2
912	912	a single investigation may not exceed 3
913	913	$40,000. 4
914	914	‘‘(C) R
915	915	EPORTING.— 5
916	916	‘‘(i) T
917	917	O THE SECRETARY.—If a State 6
918	918	agency under subparagraph (A) permits a 7
919	919	retail food store or wholesale food concern 8
920	920	to continue to participate in the supple-9
921	921	mental nutrition assistance program in lieu 10
922	922	of disqualification, the State agency shall 11
923	923	annually submit to the Secretary a report 12
924	924	describing the justification of the State 13
925	925	agency for that action. 14
926	926	‘‘(ii) T
927	927	O CONGRESS.—The Secretary 15
928	928	shall annually submit to Congress a report 16
929	929	compiling the information contained in re-17
930	930	ports submitted to the Secretary under 18
931	931	clause (i).’’. 19
932	932	SEC. 210. RETENTION OF RECAPTURED FUNDS BY STATES. 20
933	933	Section 16(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 21
934	934	(7 U.S.C. 2025(a)) is amended— 22
935	935	(1) in the second sentence, by striking ‘‘The of-23
936	936	ficials’’ and inserting the following: 24
937	937	‘‘(3) P
938	938	ROHIBITION.—The officials’’; 25
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942	942	(2) in the first sentence— 1
943	943	(A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) 2
944	944	through (9) as subparagraphs (A) through (I), 3
945	945	respectively; and 4
946	946	(B) by striking ‘‘section 17(n): Provided, 5
947	947	That the Secretary’’ and inserting the following: 6
948	948	‘‘section 17(n). 7
949	949	‘‘(2) A
950	950	DMINISTRATION ON INDIAN RESERVA -8
951	951	TIONS AND IN NATIVE VILLAGES .— 9
952	952	‘‘(A) I
953	953	N GENERAL.—The Secretary’’; 10
954	954	(3) in paragraph (2) (as so designated)— 11
955	955	(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘35 12
956	956	percent’’ and inserting ‘‘50 percent’’; and 13
957	957	(B) by adding at the end the following: 14
958	958	‘‘(B) U
959	959	SE OF RETAINED AMOUNTS FOR 15
960	960	FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS .—The value of funds 16
961	961	or allotments recovered or collected pursuant to 17
962	962	sections 6(b) and 13(c) that are retained by a 18
963	963	State under subparagraph (A) in excess of 35 19
964	964	percent shall be used by the State for investiga-20
965	965	tions of fraud in the supplemental nutrition as-21
966	966	sistance program.’’; and 22
967	967	(4) by striking the subsection designation and 23
968	968	all that follows through ‘‘Subject to’’ in the matter 24
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971	971	•S 1197 IS
972	972	preceding paragraph (2) (as so designated) and in-1
973	973	serting the following: 2
974	974	‘‘(a) A
975	975	DMINISTRATIVECOST-SHARING.— 3
976	976	‘‘(1) I
977	977	N GENERAL.—Subject to’’. 4
978	978	Æ
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