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Feed Hungry Veterans Act of 2025

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to expand the eligibility of disabled veterans to receive supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits.

Introduced Mar 18, 2025

Latest action (Apr 4, 2025) Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.

Referred to
Agriculture Committee
Policy area
Agriculture and Food
Issues
Defense

Summary

This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to expand eligibility for disabled veterans to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. The bill expands the definition of eligible disabled veterans to include those with: at least one service-connected disability rated at 60 percent or higher, two or more service-connected disabilities with combined rating of 70 percent or higher (at least one rated at 40 percent or higher), a determination of catastrophic disability, or veterans under age 65 receiving a veterans pension. The bill modifies SNAP rules to ensure these eligible disabled veterans can access nutrition assistance benefits. The changes apply to all disabled veterans meeting the specified disability rating or pension criteria. The bill is effective October 1, 2030.

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)
67 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

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

  • NULL $71,461
  • BERKSHIRE PARTNERS LLC $14,814
  • LOEHMANN BLASIUS $13,200
  • TEENLIFE MEDIA $9,900
  • JP MORGAN CHASE $9,900

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

Actions (3)
  1. Apr 4, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture. · house
  2. Mar 18, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. · house
  3. Mar 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 7383 — Feed Our Veterans Act · Introduced Mar 20, 2026 · Cong. 119 85%
  • HR 1289 — Veterans Nutrition and Wellness Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 82%
  • HR 1411 — No Veteran Should Go Hungry Act of 2025 · Introduced Feb 18, 2025 · Cong. 119 82%
  • S 4286 — Senior Hunger Prevention Act of 2026 · Introduced Apr 14, 2026 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 1198 — Let’s Get to Work Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 2016 — Feed Our Families Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Mar 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

March 18, 2025

Mrs. Hayes (for herself, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Ms. Adams, Ms. Ansari, Ms. Brown, Ms. Brownley, Ms. Budzinski, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Carson, Mr. Casar, Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Costa, Mr. Courtney, Ms. Crockett, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Kennedy of New York, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Landsman, Mrs. McClain Delaney, Mr. McGarvey, Mr. McGovern, Mrs. McIver, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Neal, Ms. Norton, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Mr. Peters, Ms. Pingree, Ms. Plaskett, Mr. Pocan, Mrs. Ramirez, Mr. Riley of New York, Ms. Ross, Ms. Salinas, Ms. Sanchez, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Ms. Sherrill, Mr. Smith of Washington, Ms. Stansbury, Mr. Thanedar, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Ms. Titus, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Tonko, and Mr. Vargas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

A BILL

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to expand the eligibility of disabled veterans to receive supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits.

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 “Feed Hungry Veterans Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

The Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) is amended—

(1) in section 3(j)(4)—

(A) by amending subparagraph (A) to read as follows:

“(A) has at least—

“(i) one service-connected disability which is rated at 60 percent or higher under title 38, United States Code; or

“(ii) two or more service-connected disabilities, at least one of which is rated at 40 percent or higher and the combined rating is 70 percent or higher under such title;”, and

(B) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following:

“(C) has a determination of being catastrophically disabled under such title; or

“(D) is under the age of 65 and receiving a pension under section 1521 of such title;”, and

(2) in the 1st sentence of section 6(d)(2)—

(A) by striking “or (F)” and inserting “(F)”, and

(B) by inserting before the period at the end the following: “; or (G) a veteran described in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of section 3(j)(4)”.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION OF AMENDMENTS.

This Act, and the amendments made by this Act, shall take effect on October 1, 2030. <all>

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