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Securing Strictly Needy Americans’ Pivotal (SNAP) Benefits Act of 2025

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.

Introduced Feb 18, 2025

Latest action (Mar 20, 2025) Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.

Referred to
Agriculture Committee
Policy area
Agriculture and Food
Issues
Economy & Taxes

Summary
  • Requires state agencies to suspend SNAP benefit accounts for households that make EBT card purchases exclusively out-of-state for longer than 60 days until residency is verified or confirmed through investigation
  • Prohibits households that include members who own approved retail food stores or wholesale food concerns from redeeming SNAP benefits at those stores or concerns
  • Exempts retail food stores and wholesale food concerns owned by publicly owned corporations or government entities from the prohibition on SNAP benefit redemption by owner households
  • Sets the effective date of the bill as one year after enactment

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
4 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to David Rouzer’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • COASTAL KIA $11,600
  • TRANS-GLOBAL SOLUTIONS, INC $9,900
  • RETIRED - NO EMPLOYER $9,700
  • STS INTERNATIONAL $7,000
  • DMM STRATEGIES, INC. $6,850

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for David Rouzer → · Outside spending →

Actions (3)
  1. Mar 20, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture. · house
  2. Feb 18, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. · house
  3. Feb 18, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 5860 — SNAP BACK Act. · Introduced Dec 2, 2025 · Cong. 119 83%
  • HR 3117 — Fairness for Victims of SNAP Skimming Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 30, 2025 · Cong. 119 82%
  • S 1540 — Fairness for Victims of SNAP Skimming Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 30, 2025 · Cong. 119 82%
  • HR 9359 — Ending Stolen SNAP Benefits Act of 2026 · Introduced Jun 18, 2026 · Cong. 119 82%
  • HR 7316 — SNAP Payment Security and Fraud Prevention Act of 2026 · Introduced Mar 20, 2026 · Cong. 119 80%
  • HR 2983 — SNAP SECURE Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 24, 2025 · Cong. 119 79%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Feb 18, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

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

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. <all>

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