Keeping Families Fed Act of 2023

Subjects: Agriculture and Food


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[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2645 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2645

To amend section 2202 of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to 
 extend for 1 year the availability of certain flexible benefits under 
         the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP).


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 17, 2023

 Ms. Caraveo introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 2202 of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to 
 extend for 1 year the availability of certain flexible benefits under 
         the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP).

    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 ``Keeping Families Fed Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) After February 2023 the emergency nutrition assistance 
        benefits provided under the supplemental nutrition assistance 
        program (SNAP) authorized by the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 
        ended, resulting in a benefit cut for every SNAP recipient 
        household in the 32 States then providing the emergency 
        benefits.
            (2) According to the Center on Budget and Policy 
        Priorities, every recipient household in those States now 
        receives at least $95 reduction in SNAP benefits a month, and 
        some households see reductions of $250 a month or more. The 
        average household receives $90 a month less in emergency SNAP 
        benefits.
            (3) The ending of emergency allotments after February 2023 
        was required by an Act enacted in December 2022 that provided 
        only 2 months for State agencies that administer SNAP and for 
        SNAP recipients to prepare for a stark reduction in benefits. 
        More resources and guidance for the end of the emergency SNAP 
        benefits would have allowed the State agencies and SNAP 
        recipients to better prepare for a benefit reduction and better 
        prevent the hunger cliff caused by benefit reductions.

SEC. 3. AMENDMENT.

    Section 2302(d) of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (7 
U.S.C. 2011 note; Public Law 116-127) is amended by inserting before 
the period at the end the following:
``, but such authority shall be in effect during the 1-year period that 
begins on the date of the enactment of the Keeping Families Fed Act of 
2023''.

SEC. 4. STRATEGY PLAN.

    Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Agriculture shall develop, and submit to the Congress, 
a strategy plan for State agencies that administer the supplemental 
nutrition assistance program under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 
to provided resources and guidance for public awareness, and 
preparation for the end, of the extended emergency program benefits 
authorized by the amendment made by section 3.
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