Let's Get to Work Act of 2023

Subjects: Agriculture and Food

Summary:  <p><b>Let's Get to Work Act of 2023</b></p> <p>This bill modifies and expands work requirements under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and certain housing programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).</p> <p>Specifically, the bill repeals the temporary suspension of work requirements due to COVID-19 that allowed participants who would have lost eligibility due to such requirements to continue to receive SNAP benefits. It also expands work requirements under SNAP to apply to all able-bodied adults receiving benefits who are under the age of 60 (currently 50) as well as to individuals who have children over the age of 6. The bill exempts from work requirements an individual who is responsible for a dependent and married to, and resides with, an individual who is in compliance with the work requirements. The bill terminates a state's authority to provide exemptions to individuals who do not meet work requirements.</p> <p>Additionally, the bill establishes work requirements for families residing in public housing by applying SNAP work requirements to the HUD public housing and tenant-based rental assistance (voucher) programs.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 39 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 39

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to modify work requirements 
  under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 24 (legislative day, January 3), 2023

  Mr. Scott of Florida 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 modify work requirements 
  under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, 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 ``Let's Get to Work Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. SNAP WORK REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Repeal of Waiver.--Section 2301 of the Families First 
Coronavirus Response Act (7 U.S.C. 2011 note; Public Law 116-127) is 
repealed.
    (b) Work Requirements.--
            (1) In general.--Section 6(o) of the Food and Nutrition Act 
        of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2015(o)) is amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (2), in the matter preceding 
                subparagraph (A), by inserting ``, or, in the case of a 
                parent or other member of a household with 
                responsibility for a dependent child, 6 months 
                (consecutive or otherwise),'' before ``during which'';
                    (B) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``50'' 
                        and inserting ``60'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (C), by adding ``under 
                        6 years of age'' before the semicolon at the 
                        end;
                            (iii) in subparagraph (D), by striking 
                        ``or'' at the end after the semicolon;
                            (iv) in subparagraph (E), by striking the 
                        period at the end and inserting ``; or''; and
                            (v) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(F)(i) responsible for a dependent individual; 
                and
                    ``(ii) married to, and resides with, an individual 
                who is in compliance with the requirements of paragraph 
                (2).''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (6)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
                        ``(H)'' and inserting ``(G)'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``(F) 
                        and (H)'' and inserting ``(E) and (G)'';
                            (iii) in subparagraph (D), by striking 
                        ``(F) through (H)'' and inserting ``(E) through 
                        (G)'';
                            (iv) by striking subparagraph (E);
                            (v) by redesignating subparagraphs (F) 
                        through (H) as subparagraphs (E) through (G), 
                        respectively; and
                            (vi) in subparagraph (E) (as so 
                        redesignated), by striking ``(C), (D), or (E)'' 
                        and inserting ``(C) or (D)''.
            (2) Conforming amendment.--Section 16(h)(1)(E)(ii)(I) of 
        the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
        2025(h)(1)(E)(ii)(I)) is amended by striking ``3-month period'' 
        and inserting ``3-month or 6-month period, as applicable,''.

SEC. 3. WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR PUBLIC HOUSING AND TENANT-BASED RENTAL 
              ASSISTANCE.

    (a) Public Housing.--Section 3 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Work Requirements for Families.--The requirements described 
in section 6(o) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2015(o)) shall apply with respect to any individual who--
            ``(1) is a member of a family residing in a public housing 
        dwelling; and
            ``(2) is not exempted from those requirements under 
        paragraph (3) of such section.''.
    (b) Tenant-Based Rental Assistance.--Section 8(o) of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
            ``(22) Work requirements for families.--The requirements 
        described in section 6(o) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 
        (7 U.S.C. 2015(o)) shall apply with respect to any individual 
        who--
                    ``(A) is a member of a family receiving tenant-
                based assistance; and
                    ``(B) is not exempted from those requirements under 
                paragraph (3) of such section.''.
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