119-s1156

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1156 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 1156

 To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to ensure that striking 
 workers and their households do not become ineligible for benefits 
 under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other 
 purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 March 26, 2025

Mr. Fetterman (for himself, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Smith, Ms. 
 Klobuchar, Mr. Wyden, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Welch, Mr. 
 Booker, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Gallego, and Ms. Slotkin) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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 A BILL

 To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to ensure that striking 
 workers and their households do not become ineligible for benefits 
 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. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Food Secure Strikers Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF STRIKING WORKERS.

 

Section 6
            (d) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2015
            (d) ) is amended--

    (1) in paragraph

    (1)
            (D) --
        (A) by striking clause
            (iv) ; and
        (B) by redesignating clauses
            (v) and
            (vi) as 
 clauses
            (iv) and
            (v) , respectively; and

    (2) in paragraph

    (3) --
        (A) by striking ``participate in the supplemental 
 nutrition assistance program at any time that'' and 
 inserting ``be ineligible to participate in the 
 supplemental nutrition assistance program as a result 
 of'';
        (B) by striking ``is on strike'' and inserting 
 ``being on strike''; and
            (C) by striking ``: Provided, That'' and all that 
 follows through the period at the end and inserting a 
 period.
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