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H.R. 6181 · 116th Congress

Ensuring Emergency Food Security Act

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RDD DeLauroSponsor
12 cosponsors · 12 D
MFD Fudge JHD Hayes BLD Lee JMD McGovern CPD Pingree DHD Haaland END Norton MPD Pocan JKD Kennedy SMD Moulton JND Neguse SCD Cohen

5 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

This bill expands benefits and eligibility under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) which is administered by the Department of Agriculture (USDA).

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Mar 10, 2020

Ensuring Emergency Food Security Act

This bill expands benefits and eligibility under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) which is administered by the Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Specifically, the bill

  • prohibits any federal funding (including fees) from being used to decrease program benefits or impact program eligibility under SNAP;
  • temporarily increases the value of SNAP benefits through FY2020;
  • prohibits USDA from reducing the value of the maximum allotments, minimum allotments or consolidated block grants for Puerto Rico and American Samoa below the level in effect for FY2020 as a result of such increase;
  • temporarily suspends work requirements through FY2022 under SNAP, allowing participants who would have lost eligibility due to such requirements to continue to receive SNAP benefits;
  • directs state agencies, beginning on October 1, 2022, to disregard any period during which an individual received SNAP benefits prior to FY2022, for purposes of referring such individual to an employment and training program; and
  • expands the food distribution program on Indian reservations for costs relating to facility improvements and equipment upgrades.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Ensuring Emergency Food Security Act

Latest action (Mar 10, 2020): Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

Policy area: Agriculture and Food · Origin: House · Introduced: Mar 10, 2020

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.