Title: Emergency SNAP Lapse Act
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Emergency SNAP Lapse Act
This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to withhold Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) funds from state agencies that do not provide sufficient funds to pay the state share of the administrative costs of the program.
To participate in SNAP, state agencies must submit annually to USDA a statement certifying the amount of funds committed by the state agency to pay the state share of the administrative costs for the year. If the state agency has not committed sufficient funds, USDA must notify the agency, provide a specified period of time to correct the failure, and withhold SNAP funds if the failure is not corrected.
USDA must use any funds that are withheld from a state to provide grants to private nonprofit entities within the state for the costs of: (1) providing food to individuals in need; and (2) administering the grants, including hiring additional personnel.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3092 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3092

    To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide certain 
 requirements relating to commitments by State agencies to provide the 
     State share of the administrative costs of administering the 
               supplemental nutrition assistance program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 20, 2018

  Mr. Kennedy 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 provide certain 
 requirements relating to commitments by State agencies to provide the 
     State share of the administrative costs of administering the 
               supplemental nutrition assistance program.

    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 ``Emergency SNAP Lapse Act''.

SEC. 2. FAILURE TO PROVIDE STATE SHARE OF ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.

    Section 16 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2025) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(l) Failure To Provide State Share of Administrative Costs.--
            ``(1) Definition of eligible entity.--In this subsection, 
        the term `eligible entity' means a private nonprofit entity, 
        such as a community-based organization, religious organization, 
        food bank, food pantry, or other emergency feeding 
        organization.
            ``(2) Statement by state agency.--To be eligible to 
        participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program 
        under this Act for a fiscal year, a State agency shall, not 
        later than the deadline established by the Secretary for the 
        applicable fiscal year, submit to the Secretary a statement 
        certifying the amount of funds committed by the State agency to 
        pay the State share of administrative costs under this section 
        for the fiscal year.
            ``(3) Determination by secretary.--If, based on a review of 
        the statement submitted under paragraph (2), the Secretary 
        determines that a State agency has not committed sufficient 
        funds to provide the State share of administrative costs under 
        this section for the fiscal year, the Secretary shall--
                    ``(A) not later than 30 days after the date of the 
                determination by the Secretary, notify the State agency 
                that--
                            ``(i) the State agency has failed to 
                        provide sufficient funds to comply with the 
                        cost-sharing requirements of this section;
                            ``(ii) the State agency has a specified 
                        period of time to correct the failure; and
                            ``(iii) if the State agency fails to 
                        provide sufficient funds to comply with the 
                        cost-sharing requirements of this section 
                        within the specified time period--
                                    ``(I) the State agency shall not be 
                                allowed to participate in the 
                                supplemental nutrition assistance 
                                program until such time as the failure 
                                is corrected; and
                                    ``(II) any amounts that would have 
                                otherwise been paid to the State agency 
                                to carry out the supplemental nutrition 
                                assistance program under this Act will 
                                be withheld in accordance with this 
                                paragraph;
                    ``(B) during any period in which the State is 
                determined by the Secretary to have failed to provide 
                sufficient funds to comply with the cost-sharing 
                requirements of this section and the failure is not 
                corrected by the State, as determined by the Secretary, 
                withhold any amounts otherwise due to the State agency 
                under this Act for the fiscal year; and
                    ``(C) use any amounts withheld under subparagraph 
                (B) to make grants to eligible entities in the 
                applicable State in accordance with paragraph (4).
            ``(4) Grants.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall establish a 
                program under which the Secretary shall use any amounts 
                withheld under paragraph (3)(B) to provide grants to 
                eligible entities in the State from which amounts are 
                withheld for--
                            ``(i) the costs of providing food to 
                        individuals in need; and
                            ``(ii) the costs of administering the 
                        grants, including hiring additional personnel 
                        at the eligible entity to carry out activities 
                        described in clause (i).
                    ``(B) Application.--An eligible entity that seeks 
                to receive a grant under subparagraph (A) shall submit 
                to the Secretary an application for the grant at such 
                time, in such form, and containing such information as 
                the Secretary may require.''.
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