Keeping Families Fed Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-2645
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Caraveo, Yadira [D-CO-8]
Introduced: 2023-04-17
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Latest action: action_date: 2023-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-04-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Keeping Families Fed Act of 2023</b></p> <p>This bill extends for one year the availability of certain increased Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Congress authorized temporary increases to SNAP benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic, which are known as emergency allotments. These benefits ended nationwide after the February 2023 issuance. This bill continues that program for one year. </p> <p>Further, the Department of Agriculture must submit to Congress a strategy plan for state agencies to (1) provide resources and guidance for public awareness of the extension of the emergency allotments, and (2) prepare for the end of this program.</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2645 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 17, 2023 Ms. Caraveo introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture 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).

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Keeping Families Fed Act of 2023 . 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. 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 . 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.