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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5596 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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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.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            December 18 (legislative day, December 16), 2024

   Mr. Lujan introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 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.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``SNAP Administrator Retention Act of 
2024''.

SEC. 2. 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), in the matter preceding paragraph 
        (1), by striking ``subsection (k)'' and inserting ``subsections 
        (k) and (m)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(l) Wage Standards for State Agency Personnel.--Not later than 1 
year after the date of enactment of the SNAP Administrator Retention 
Act of 2024, wages of State agency personnel administering the 
supplemental nutrition assistance program shall be--
            ``(1) not less than the appropriate rate of pay that would 
        be payable to Federal employees under subchapter III of chapter 
        53 of title 5, United States Code; and
            ``(2) updated annually by not less than any increase in 
        that rate of pay, including locality adjustments.
    ``(m) Administrative Cost-Sharing for Staffing and Retention.--
            ``(1) In general.--On approval of a wage plan submitted by 
        a State agency under paragraph (2), the Secretary shall pay to 
        each State agency an amount equal to 100 percent of all 
        administrative personnel costs incurred by the State agency in 
        carrying out the supplemental nutrition assistance program, 
        including all costs associated with--
                    ``(A) processing, hiring, and training new 
                employees in accordance with the standards described in 
                section 11(e)(6)(B);
                    ``(B) maintaining those personnel costs; and
                    ``(C) complying with the wage standards described 
                in subsection (l).
            `` (2) Approval of wage plans.--Not later than 1 year after 
        the date of enactment of the SNAP Administrator Retention Act 
        of 2024, a State agency shall submit to the Secretary for 
        approval the personnel wage plans implemented by the State 
        agency to carry out subsection (l), including the position 
        titles, duties, wages, and appropriate rates of pay of 
        employees.
            ``(3) Maintenance of effort.--The Secretary shall make 
        payments to a State agency under paragraph (1) only if the 
        State agency uses the funds received--
                    ``(A) to supplement, not supplant, non-Federal 
                funds used for existing administrative personnel costs 
                under subsection (a); and
                    ``(B) for existing or additional full-time 
                equivalent positions above the number of positions that 
                were held in the State or sub-State area in fiscal year 
                2023.''.
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