[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1398 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1398

   To amend the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, to limit the 
 conditions applicable to the use of electronic benefit transfer (EBT) 
            cards to purchase food, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 18, 2025

 Mr. Rouzer (for himself, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia, and 
 Mr. Alford) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, to limit the 
 conditions applicable to the use of electronic benefit transfer (EBT) 
            cards to purchase food, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Securing Strictly Needy Americans' 
Pivotal (SNAP) Benefits Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO CONSOLIDATED APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2023.

    Section 501 of title IV of division HH of the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2023, is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(f) Exclusively Out-of-State Purchases.--The State agency shall 
suspend the accounts of households for which EBT card transactions are 
made exclusively out-of-State for a period longer than 60 days, until--
            ``(1) the household affirmatively provides substantiating 
        evidence that the members of the household who are program 
        participants still reside in the state from which they receive 
        benefits; or
            ``(2) an investigation is conducted and conclusively 
        determines that the members of the household who are program 
        participants still reside in the state from which they receive 
        benefits.''.

SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON REDEMPTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE 
              PROGRAM BENEFITS BY OWNERS OF APPROVED RETAIL FOOD STORES 
              AND WHOLESALE FOOD CONCERNS.

    Section 9 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2020) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(k) Limitation on Redemption of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 
Program Benefits by Households That Include Members Who Are Owners of 
Approved Retail Food Stores or Wholesale Food Concerns.--
            ``(1) A household that includes a member who is an owner of 
        an approved retail food store or wholesale food concern may not 
        redeem supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits at 
        such store or such concern.
            ``(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply with respect to a 
        retail food store, or a wholesale food concern, that is owned 
        by a publicly owned corporation or by a government.''.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect 1 
year after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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