SNAP Reform and Upward Mobility Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced
Summary
Modernize how poverty is measured by requiring the Census Bureau to collect detailed income and benefit data and create valuation methods for noncash federal benefits. The bill would also tighten SNAP work rules, boost program integrity, and shift more administrative costs to states.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 3 costs, 2 mixed.
New penalties for SNAP stores
If enacted, stores convicted of trafficking SNAP instruments or trading food for guns or drugs would be permanently disqualified from SNAP. A State may instead let a store stay if removal would hurt participants or owners were not involved, but then the State must assess civil penalties up to $10,000 per violation and up to $40,000 per single investigation. The bill would also require FNS to reauthorize medium- or high-risk vendors every year.
States must pay more SNAP admin
If enacted, each State running SNAP would be required to contribute a rising share of SNAP administrative funding. The share starts at 10% in FY2025 and increases each year to 50% in FY2033 and later. States could still choose to pay more than the required minimum.
Stricter SNAP work and hours
If enacted, this would raise several monthly SNAP work-hour thresholds (for example, 60 hours → 65 hours and a 55→64 change). The bill would apply hour rules at the county level but not in labor areas with unemployment over 10%. It would let supervised in-person job search count toward required hours. For married couples with a child over 6, combined spousal hours could not exceed the single head-of-household requirement. The bill would also add a policy goal that SNAP promote employment and self-sufficiency.
New federal data on benefits
If enacted, the Census would collect agency records showing who gets federal benefits and the dollar value of those benefits beginning in fiscal year 2025. States would have to send person-level benefit amounts to Federal agencies each year. Heads of Federal agencies would have to provide requested data, including income tax data, within six months. The bill would create an eight-member Commission to recommend valuation methods and bar OMB from using the new data to set the official poverty line. It would also make unauthorized disclosure of this Census data a felony with fines up to $300,000 and up to five years in prison.
Stricter fraud and EBT rules
If enacted, SNAP applicants and recipients would have to cooperate with fraud investigations or risk denial or loss of benefits. The bill would limit registered EBT card users to five people and require at least one household member be registered. Unauthorized EBT uses would trigger escalating actions: after 2 uses a review; after 4 uses a one-month suspension; after 6 uses a three-month suspension; 7 or more uses suspend one month per use. The bill would also let the Agriculture Secretary narrow SNAP-eligible purchases to "essential" items.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
UT • R
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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