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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 mainta
Action Timeline
2025-03-26
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
2025-03-26
Introduced in Senate
Frequently Asked Questions
Did S.1156 pass?
S.1156 is still alive. Current stage: COMMITTEE. Pass likelihood: 38%.
What does S.1156 do?
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…
Who sponsored S.1156?
S.1156 was sponsored by John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania).
Full Bill Text
119 S1156 IS: Food Secure Strikers Act of 2025 U.S. Senate 2025-03-26 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1156 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 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. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Food Secure Strikers Act of 2025 . 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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