I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2512 
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to permit supplemental 
nutrition assistance program benefits to be used to purchase additional 
types of food items. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 31, 2025 
Ms. MENG (for herself, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. GARBARINO, Mr. 
NUNN of Iowa, Mr. AUCHINCLOSS, Ms. BALINT, Mr. BELL, Ms. 
BONAMICI, Ms. BROWNLEY, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. CARSON, Mr. CARTER 
of Louisiana, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, Ms. 
CHU, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. COHEN, Mr. COSTA, Mr. DAVIS of 
North Carolina, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. EVANS of Pennsyl-
vania, Mr. EVANS of Colorado, Mr. FROST, Mr. GARAMENDI, Mr. GARCIA 
of California, Mr. GOLDMAN
of New York, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. 
GOTTHEIMER, Mr. HARDER of California, Mr. HUFFMAN, Ms. JACOBS, 
Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. KEATING, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Mr. 
KHANNA, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. LANDSMAN, Mr. LATIMER, Mr. 
LAWLER, Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ, Mr. LYNCH, Ms. MALLIOTAKIS, Mr. 
MCGARVEY, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mrs. MCIVER, Mr. MIN, Mr. MORELLE, 
Ms. NORTON, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. PETTERSEN, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. 
POCAN, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Mr. RILEY of New York, Ms. SALINAS, Ms. 
SA´NCHEZ, Ms. SEWELL, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. SORENSEN, Mr. 
SUOZZI, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. THANEDAR, Ms. TITUS, Ms. TLAIB, Ms. 
TOKUDA, Mr. TONKO, Mr. TORRES of New York, Mr. TRAN, Mr. 
VARGAS, Mr. VASQUEZ, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, and Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ag-
riculture 
A BILL 
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to permit 
supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to be 
used to purchase additional types of food items. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Hot Foods Act of 
2025’’. 
SEC. 2. HOT FOOD UNDER SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION AS-
SISTANCE PROGRAM. 
Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 2012) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (k)(1), by striking ‘‘consump-
tion except alcoholic beverages, tobacco, hot foods or 
hot food products ready for immediate consumption 
other than those authorized pursuant to clauses (3), 
(4), (5), (7), (8), and (9) of this subsection’’ and in-
serting ‘‘consumption, including hot foods or hot 
food products ready for immediate consumption and 
excluding alcoholic beverages, tobacco’’; 
(2) in subsection (o)(1)— 
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
(A), by striking ‘‘and consumption’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘or home or immediate consumption’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) by striking the subparagraph des-
ignation and all that follows through ‘‘of-
fers’’ and inserting the following: 
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‘‘(A)(i) offers’’; 
(ii) in clause (i) (as so designated), by 
striking ‘‘or’’ at the end and inserting 
‘‘and’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(ii) of which not more than 50 percent of 
the total gross sales are from hot foods or hot 
food products ready for immediate consump-
tion; or’’; and 
(3) in subsection (q)(2)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘include accessory’’ and in-
serting the following: ‘‘include— 
‘‘(A) accessory’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (A) (as so des-
ignated), by striking the period at the end and 
inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(B) hot foods or hot food products ready 
for immediate consumption.’’. 
Æ 
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