Let's Get to Work Act of 2022
Bill: S.4438 | Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick (R-FL)
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Let's Get to Work Act of 2022
This bill modifies and expands work requirements under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), including by repealing 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.
The bill also establishes work requirements for families residing in public housing and participating in low-income housing assistance programs by applying SNAP work requirements to such programs.

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 2022''.

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repealed.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.--
            (1) In general.--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:
            ``(21) 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.''.
            (2) Prospective technical amendment.--Effective on December 
        27, 2022, paragraph (21) of section 8(o) of the United States 
        Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)), as added by section 
        101(b)(2)(B) of division Q of the Consolidated Appropriations 
        Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260; 134 Stat. 2462), is redesignated 
        as paragraph (22).
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