Official Summaries

Nutritious SNAP Act of 2025

This bill prohibits Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits from being used to purchase certain beverages (e.g., soda) and snack foods.

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.

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.

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 unhealthy food.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1100 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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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.


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                   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

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                                 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Nutritious SNAP Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF FOOD; WAIVER OF ELIGIBILITY OF CERTAIN FOOD.

    (a) Definition of Food.--Section 3(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''.
    (b) Waiver of Eligibility of Certain Food.--Section 11 of the Food 
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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