Emergency Relief for Hungry Families Act of 2025

This bill would change the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to address periods when funding for the Department of Agriculture has lapsed and people in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are getting no benefits or only partial benefits. During such a period, stores authorized to accept SNAP could offer incentives, such as food discounts, without first asking for a waiver. The incentive would stay in effect for the whole period. Offering it would not count as breaking the federal rule that requires stores to treat SNAP shoppers the same as other shoppers.

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Sponsors

• Ron Wyden Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors