# 119-s-1794: SNAP Next Step Act of 2025

119-s-1794, SNAP Next Step Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Ricketts, Pete [R-NE] (R-NE); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-1794
- Congress: 119
- Title: SNAP Next Step Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-05-15
- Sponsor: Sen. Ricketts, Pete [R-NE] (R-NE)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Agriculture and Food
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**Links SNAP recipients to federal workforce training and funds outreach and a public ‘work versus benefits’ calculator.** This bill would let states recruit eligible SNAP households into Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act employment and training programs and publish a calculator to help participants compare benefits and potential wages. - Families and SNAP participants: Creates a new "covered individual" category for people in SNAP households who are unemployed or underemployed, not receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and not already in a State Employment First program. Eligible people could be recruited into WIOA employment and training services and use a calculator to see whether work would raise or lower household income. - State agencies: Would be allowed to use SNAP administrative funds to recruit participants and run the described employment and training activities. Developing and hosting the employment calculator on the agency website would count as an administrative cost. - Workforce programs and local providers: Could receive referrals from SNAP agencies to enroll more participants into subtitle B of title I WIOA services.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] (D-NY), 2025-05-15T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Job training access for SNAP households: benefit, medium. If enacted, states could use SNAP administrative funds to recruit and run Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act job training for certain SNAP recipients. You could be eligible if you are in a SNAP household, are unemployed or underemployed, meet SNAP participation rules (or are exempt), are not…
- Online earnings tool for SNAP: benefit, low. If enacted, each State agency could offer a public calculator on its SNAP website to help participants compare future job earnings with SNAP benefits. The tool would help you estimate if income from work would be greater or less than your SNAP benefit. Building and running the calculator would coun…

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- 119-s-2828: Child Care Modernization Act of 2025
- 119-s-4668: Protect College Sports Act of 2026
- 119-s-554: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025
- 119-s-5025: Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026
- 119-s-3140: Flood Protection and Infrastructure Resilience Act of 2025
- 119-s-1552: Living Donor Protection Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-s-1794 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1794)

## Related
- [119-s-2828: Child Care Modernization Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2828)
- [119-s-4668: Protect College Sports Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4668)
- [119-s-554: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-554)
- [119-s-5025: Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5025)
- [119-s-3140: Flood Protection and Infrastructure Resilience Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3140)
- [119-s-1552: Living Donor Protection Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1552)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1794 (as of 2025-12-21).