Bill Details
HR.813 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-28 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
Introduced Date
2025-01-28
Policy Area
Agriculture and Food
Committees
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Sponsors
Cosponsors
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AI Summary This summary was generated by AI from the bill text. AI can get information wrong.
This bill would stop people from using food assistance benefits to buy soda. It changes the rules for the nutrition assistance program so soda is treated like other items that cannot be bought with these benefits. The bill also gives a clear definition of what counts as soda and says the change would begin 180 days after the law is passed.
- It adds soda to the list of items that cannot be purchased with food assistance benefits.
- For this bill, soda means a carbonated drink with more than 1 gram of added sugar, artificial sweetener, or flavoring per serving.
- The rule would take effect 180 days after the bill becomes law.
Official Summaries
Funding is Zero for Zero Nutrition Options (FIZZ-NO) Act of 2025
This bill revises the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to prohibit the use of SNAP benefits to purchase soda. Under the bill, soda means a carbonated beverage that contains more than 1 gram of added sugar, artificial sweetener, or flavoring per serving.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 813 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 813
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to prohibit the use of
supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to purchase soda.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 28, 2025
Mr. Self introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Agriculture
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A BILL
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to prohibit the use of
supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to purchase soda.
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 ``Funding is Zero for Zero Nutrition
Options (FIZZ-NO) Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.
Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012) is
amended--
(1) in subsection (k) by inserting ``soda,'' after
``alcoholic beverages,'', and
(2) by inserting after subsection (r) the following:
``(r-1) `Soda' means a carbonated beverage that contains more than
1 gram of added sugar, artificial sweetener, or flavoring per
serving.''.
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Act shall take effect 180 days after the date of the enactment
of this Act.
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