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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 5596 

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to increase the Federal 

cost share for supplemental nutrition assistance program administration 

to improve staffing and retention, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

DECEMBER 18 (legislative day, DECEMBER 16), 2024 

Mr. LUJA ́N 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 increase 

the Federal cost share for supplemental nutrition assistance program administration to improve staffing and 

retention, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘SNAP Administrator 

5 Retention Act of 2024’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. COST SHARE FOR SNAP ADMINISTRATION FOR 

2 STAFFING AND RETENTION. 

3 Section 16 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 

4 (7 U.S.C. 2025) is amended— 

5 (1) in subsection (a), in the matter preceding 

6 paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘subsection (k)’’ and in7 serting ‘‘subsections (k) and (m)’’; and 

8 (2) by adding at the end the following: 

9 ‘‘(l) WAGE STANDARDS FOR STATE AGENCY PER10 SONNEL.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enact11 ment of the SNAP Administrator Retention Act of 2024, 

12 wages of State agency personnel administering the supple13 mental nutrition assistance program shall be— 

14 ‘‘(1) not less than the appropriate rate of pay 

15 that would be payable to Federal employees under 

16 subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, United 

17 States Code; and 

18 ‘‘(2) updated annually by not less than any in19 crease in that rate of pay, including locality adjust20 ments. 

21 ‘‘(m) ADMINISTRATIVE COST-SHARING FOR STAFF22 ING AND RETENTION.— 

23 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—On approval of a wage plan 

24 submitted by a State agency under paragraph (2), 

25 the Secretary shall pay to each State agency an 

26 amount equal to 100 percent of all administrative 


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1 personnel costs incurred by the State agency in car2 rying out the supplemental nutrition assistance pro3 gram, including all costs associated with— 

4 ‘‘(A) processing, hiring, and training new 

5 employees in accordance with the standards de6 scribed in section 11(e)(6)(B); 

7 ‘‘(B) maintaining those personnel costs; 

8 and 

9 ‘‘(C) complying with the wage standards 

10 described in subsection (l). 

11 ‘‘ (2) APPROVAL OF WAGE PLANS.—Not later 

12 than 1 year after the date of enactment of the 

13 SNAP Administrator Retention Act of 2024, a State 

14 agency shall submit to the Secretary for approval 

15 the personnel wage plans implemented by the State 

16 agency to carry out subsection (l), including the po17 sition titles, duties, wages, and appropriate rates of 

18 pay of employees. 

19 ‘‘(3) MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT.—The Sec20 retary shall make payments to a State agency under 

21 paragraph (1) only if the State agency uses the 

22 funds received— 

23 ‘‘(A) to supplement, not supplant, non24 Federal funds used for existing administrative 

25 personnel costs under subsection (a); and 


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1 ‘‘(B) for existing or additional full-time 

2 equivalent positions above the number of posi3 tions that were held in the State or sub-State 

4 area in fiscal year 2023.’’. 

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