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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7285 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7285

  To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to increase the Federal 
     cost share for the supplemental nutrition assistance program 
           administration to improve staffing and retention.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 7, 2024

Mrs. Hayes (for herself, Ms. Norton, Ms. Brown, Ms. Tokuda, Mrs. Watson 
Coleman, Mr. Carson, Ms. Adams, Mr. McGovern, and Mr. Soto) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL

 
  To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to increase the Federal 
     cost share for the supplemental nutrition assistance program 
           administration to improve staffing and retention.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. COST SHARE FOR SNAP ADMINISTRATION FOR STAFFING AND 
              RETENTION.

    Section 16 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2025) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a) by inserting ``, except as provided 
        in subsection (a-1),'' after ``costs'' the 1st place it 
        appears, and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(a-1) Administrative Cost-Sharing for Staffing and Retention.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary may pay to each State 
        agency an amount equal to 100 percent of all administrative 
        personnel costs incurred by such agency to carry out the 
        supplemental nutrition assistance program, including--
                    ``(A) all costs associated with processing, hiring, 
                and training new employees employed under a merit 
                system of personnel administration as required in 
                section 11(e)(6)(B) by such to carry out such program; 
                and
                    ``(B) all costs associated with maintaining such 
                personnel costs..
            ``(2) Wage standards.--Wages of such personnel shall be--
                    ``(A) not less than the appropriate rate of pay 
                that would be payable to Federal employees under 
                subchapter III of chapter 53 of subpart D of part III 
                of title 5 of the United States Code; and
                    ``(B) updated annually to not less than any 
                increase in such rate of pay, including locality 
                adjustments.
            ``(3) Approval of wage plans.--Not less than 1 year after 
        the effective date of this subsection, the State agency shall 
        submit to the Secretary for approval, the personnel wage plans 
        implemented by such agency to carry out paragraph (2), 
        including employees' position titles, duties, wages, and 
        appropriate rates of pay applicable under this subsection.''.
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