[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2512 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2512

  To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to permit supplemental 
nutrition assistance program benefits to be used to purchase additional 
                          types of food items.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 31, 2025

Ms. Meng (for herself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Garbarino, Mr. 
Nunn of Iowa, Mr. Auchincloss, Ms. Balint, Mr. Bell, Ms. Bonamici, Ms. 
Brownley, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Carson, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Ms. Castor 
of Florida, Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick, Ms. Chu, Ms. Clarke of New York, 
 Mr. Cohen, Mr. Costa, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. 
Espaillat, Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania, Mr. Evans of Colorado, Mr. Frost, 
 Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Garcia of California, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. 
   Gomez, Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Harder of California, Mr. Huffman, Ms. 
Jacobs, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Keating, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. 
Khanna, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Mr. Landsman, Mr. Latimer, Mr. Lawler, Ms. 
    Leger Fernandez, Mr. Lynch, Ms. Malliotakis, Mr. McGarvey, Mr. 
  McGovern, Mrs. McIver, Mr. Min, Mr. Morelle, Ms. Norton, Ms. Ocasio-
Cortez, Ms. Pettersen, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Pocan, Mrs. Ramirez, Mr. Riley 
    of New York, Ms. Salinas, Ms. Sanchez, Ms. Sewell, Mr. Smith of 
  Washington, Mr. Sorensen, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Takano, Mr. Thanedar, Ms. 
 Titus, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Torres of New York, Mr. 
Tran, Mr. Vargas, Mr. Vasquez, Ms. Velazquez, and Mrs. Watson Coleman) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                              Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to permit supplemental 
nutrition assistance program benefits to be used to purchase additional 
                          types of food items.

    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 ``Hot Foods Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. HOT FOOD UNDER SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

    Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (k)(1), by striking ``consumption except 
        alcoholic beverages, tobacco, hot foods or hot food products 
        ready for immediate consumption other than those authorized 
        pursuant to clauses (3), (4), (5), (7), (8), and (9) of this 
        subsection'' and inserting ``consumption, including hot foods 
        or hot food products ready for immediate consumption and 
        excluding alcoholic beverages, tobacco'';
            (2) in subsection (o)(1)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by 
                striking ``and consumption'' and inserting ``or home or 
                immediate consumption''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (A)--
                            (i) by striking the subparagraph 
                        designation and all that follows through 
                        ``offers'' and inserting the following:
                    ``(A)(i) offers'';
                            (ii) in clause (i) (as so designated), by 
                        striking ``or'' at the end and inserting 
                        ``and''; and
                            (iii) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(ii) of which not more than 50 percent of the 
                total gross sales are from hot foods or hot food 
                products ready for immediate consumption; or''; and
            (3) in subsection (q)(2)--
                    (A) by striking ``include accessory'' and inserting 
                the following: ``include--
                    ``(A) accessory'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (A) (as so designated), by 
                striking the period at the end and inserting ``; and''; 
                and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) hot foods or hot food products ready for 
                immediate consumption.''.
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