Official Summaries

Food Secure Strikers Act of 2025 

This bill allows certain striking workers and their households to maintain their eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Specifically, the bill provides that a household that would otherwise be eligible to participate in SNAP is eligible for benefits if any member of the household is on strike because of a labor dispute. Current law generally prohibits a household from participating in SNAP if any member of the household is on strike unless the household was eligible for SNAP immediately prior to the strike. Also, under current law, households are not eligible for an increased SNAP allotment as a result of the decreased income of a striking member of the household. The bill expands SNAP eligibility for households with striking workers by repealing both of these restrictions.

The bill also allows a government employee who is dismissed for striking and their household to maintain SNAP program eligibility. Specifically, current law prohibits certain individuals who voluntarily and without good cause quit a job from participating in SNAP. Further, a federal, state, or local government employee who participates in a strike against the government that results in their dismissal is considered to have voluntarily quit without good cause. The bill eliminates the provision that considers the dismissed government employee to have voluntarily quit without good cause, thereby allowing the employee and their household to maintain SNAP program eligibility if they are otherwise eligible for the program.

Current Full Text

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

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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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