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Mar 25, 2025
Policy Area:
Agriculture and Food
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Mar 25, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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<p><strong>Nutritious SNAP Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits from being used to purchase certain beverages (e.g., soda) and snack foods.</p><p>Specifically, SNAP benefits may only be used to purchase a beverage that is nonalcoholic and is (1) water, (2) cow's milk, (3) a milk-substitute beverage (e.g., almond milk, soy milk, and coconut milk), or (4) 100% juice.</p><p>Further, the bill prohibits the use of benefits to purchase snack and dessert food items which are included on the Food and Nutrition Service's Accessory Foods List that went into effect on March 5, 2018. Examples of snack and dessert foods on the list include potato and tortilla chips, ice cream, candy, snack cakes and pastries, and packaged baking mixes for cakes, brownies, and muffins.</p><p>In addition, on the request of a state agency, the Department of Agriculture must allow the state agency to prohibit the use of SNAP benefits to purchase food that the applicable state nutrition agency determines to be<em> </em>unhealthy food.</p>
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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Mar 25, 2025
Introduced in Senate
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Mar 25, 2025
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Version: Introduced in Senate
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Last Updated: Nov 13, 2025 6:35 AM
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1100 Introduced in Senate
(IS) ]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1100
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act to modify the definition of food
under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other
purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 25, 2025
Mr. Paul introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act to modify the definition of food
under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1100 Introduced in Senate
(IS) ]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1100
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act to modify the definition of food
under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other
purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 25, 2025
Mr. Paul introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act to modify the definition of food
under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, 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.
This Act may be cited as the ``Nutritious SNAP Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2.
(a) Definition of Food.--
Section 3
(k) of the Food and Nutrition Act
of 2008 (7 U.
(k) of the Food and Nutrition Act
of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012
(k) ) is amended--
(1) in paragraph
(1) , by striking ``home consumption'' and
inserting ``home consumption, subject to
section 11
(y) ,''; and
(2) by inserting ``, any nonalcoholic beverage that is not
water, cow's milk, a milk-substitute beverage (such as almond
milk, soy milk, and coconut milk), or 100 percent juice, snack
and dessert food items (as described in the supplemental
guidance document of the Food and Nutrition Service, effective
as of March 5, 2018, entitled `Accessory Foods List'),'' before
``tobacco''.
(y) ,''; and
(2) by inserting ``, any nonalcoholic beverage that is not
water, cow's milk, a milk-substitute beverage (such as almond
milk, soy milk, and coconut milk), or 100 percent juice, snack
and dessert food items (as described in the supplemental
guidance document of the Food and Nutrition Service, effective
as of March 5, 2018, entitled `Accessory Foods List'),'' before
``tobacco''.
(b) Waiver of Eligibility of Certain Food.--
Section 11 of the Food
and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.
and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2020) is amended by adding at the
end the following:
``
(y) Waiver of Eligibility of Certain Food.--The Secretary shall
permit a State agency, on request of the State agency, to prohibit the
use of benefits to purchase food that the applicable State nutrition
agency determines to be unhealthy food.''.
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end the following:
``
(y) Waiver of Eligibility of Certain Food.--The Secretary shall
permit a State agency, on request of the State agency, to prohibit the
use of benefits to purchase food that the applicable State nutrition
agency determines to be unhealthy food.''.
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