Nutritious SNAP Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1100
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2025-03-25
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Latest action: action_date: 2025-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-03-25
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Nutritious SNAP Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits from being used to purchase certain beverages (e.g., soda) and snack foods.</p><p>Specifically, SNAP benefits may only be used to purchase a beverage that is nonalcoholic and is&nbsp;(1) water, (2) cow's milk, (3) a milk-substitute beverage (e.g., almond milk, soy milk, and coconut milk), or (4) 100% juice.</p><p>Further, the bill prohibits the use of benefits to purchase&nbsp;snack and dessert food items which are included on the Food and Nutrition Service's Accessory Foods List that went into effect on March 5, 2018.&nbsp;Examples of snack and dessert foods on the list include potato and tortilla chips, ice cream, candy, snack cakes and pastries, and packaged baking mixes for cakes, brownies, and muffins.</p><p>In addition, on the request of a state agency, the Department of Agriculture must allow the state agency to prohibit the use of SNAP benefits to purchase food that the applicable&nbsp;state nutrition&nbsp;agency determines to be<em> </em>unhealthy food.</p>

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1100 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 25, 2025 Mr. Paul introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry A BILL To amend the Food and Nutrition Act to modify the definition of food under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Nutritious SNAP Act of 2025 . 2. Definition of food; waiver of eligibility of certain food (a) Definition of food Section 3(k) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2012(k) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by striking home consumption and inserting home consumption, subject to section 11(y), ; and (2) by inserting , any nonalcoholic beverage that is not water, cow's milk, a milk-substitute beverage (such as almond milk, soy milk, and coconut milk), or 100 percent juice, snack and dessert food items (as described in the supplemental guidance document of the Food and Nutrition Service, effective as of March 5, 2018, entitled Accessory Foods List ), before tobacco . (b) Waiver of eligibility of certain food Section 11 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2020 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (y) Waiver of eligibility of certain food The Secretary shall permit a State agency, on request of the State agency, to prohibit the use of benefits to purchase food that the applicable State nutrition agency determines to be unhealthy food. .