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SNAP Data Transparency and Oversight Act of 2025

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require States to provide recipient-level data to the Secretary of Agriculture upon request.

Introduced Dec 9, 2025

Latest action (Jan 13, 2026) Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.

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

Summary
  • Requires States to provide recipient-level SNAP data and case file information to the Secretary of Agriculture upon request as a condition of participating in the SNAP program.
  • Requires States to provide requested data within 30 days of the Secretary's request, or on a shorter timeline if the Secretary designates urgent program integrity, audit, or investigative purposes.
  • Requires data to be transmitted through secure electronic data transfer systems designated by the Secretary, in the form, manner, and frequency prescribed by the Secretary.
  • Authorizes withholding or suspension of Federal administrative funds from States that fail to comply with data requests.
  • Requires all data received by the Secretary to be subject to Federal privacy and security laws, including the Privacy Act of 1974, and permits disclosure to Federal and State law enforcement agencies for program enforcement and administration purposes.

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)
15 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

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

  • Employer not reported $20,016
  • MR PAVING $14,200
  • STARKEY HEARING TECHNOLOGIES $13,200
  • BURWELL ENTERPRISES $13,200
  • CHRISTENSEN FARMS $12,200

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

Actions (3)
  1. Jan 13, 2026 Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture. · house
  2. Dec 9, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. · house
  3. Dec 9, 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.

  • S 3856 — SNAP Data Transparency and Oversight Act of 2026 · Introduced Feb 12, 2026 · Cong. 119 91%
  • S 4716 — SNAP Fraud Reporting Act of 2026 · Introduced Jun 9, 2026 · Cong. 119 80%
  • HR 4347 — SNAP E&T Data And Technical Assistance (DATA) Act of 2025 · Introduced Jul 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 79%
  • HR 8028 — SNAP Fraud Reporting Act of 2026 · Introduced Mar 19, 2026 · Cong. 119 78%
  • HR 4939 — SNAP Study Act of 2025 · Introduced Aug 8, 2025 · Cong. 119 77%
  • S 3074 — SNAP BACK Act of 2025 · Introduced Oct 29, 2025 · Cong. 119 75%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Dec 9, 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

December 9, 2025

Mr. Finstad (for himself, Mr. Stauber, Mr. Rose, and Mr. Taylor) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

A BILL

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require States to provide recipient-level data to the Secretary of Agriculture upon request.

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 “SNAP Data Transparency and Oversight Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. STATE REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE SNAP RECIPIENT DATA TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.

Section 11 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2020) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(y) Provision of Recipient Data to the Secretary.—

“(1) As a condition of participation in the supplemental nutrition assistance program, each State agency shall, upon request of the Secretary, provide to the Secretary recipient- level data, case file information, or any other program data necessary for the administration, oversight, integrity, or enforcement of the program.

“(2) Data required under paragraph (1) shall be transmitted in such form, manner, frequency, and within such time frame as the Secretary may prescribe, including through secure electronic data transfer systems designated by the Secretary.

“(3) A State agency shall provide the requested data not later than 30 days after the date of the Secretary’s request, unless the Secretary establishes a shorter timeline for urgent program integrity, audit, or investigative purposes.

“(4) Failure to comply with a data request issued under this subsection may result in the withholding or suspension of Federal administrative funds under this Act.

“(5) The Secretary shall ensure that all data received under this subsection is subject to applicable Federal laws and safeguards governing the privacy and security of program records, including the Privacy Act of 1974.

“(6) Such data may be disclosed to any Federal law enforcement and investigative agency, and law enforcement and investigative agency of a State, for purposes of administering or enforcing this Act, regulations issued under this Act, or any other Federal or State law.

“(7) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to limit any existing authority of the Secretary to access State data or records for program oversight, enforcement, audit, or evaluation purposes.”. <all>

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