Training and Nutrition Stability

Bill: 119-hr-2974
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Espaillat, Adriano [D-NY-13]
Introduced: 2025-04-21
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Latest action: action_date: 2025-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-04-21
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Training and Nutrition Stability Act</strong></p><p>This bill excludes specific employment and training program funds from income when determining eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).</p><p>As background, a&nbsp;household must have an income below a certain level to qualify for SNAP program benefits.&nbsp;Certain allowances, earnings, and payments do not count towards a household's income.</p><p>Under this bill, examples&nbsp;of programs excluded from income&nbsp;include Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) programs, vocational rehabilitation programs, and refugee employment programs.</p><p>This bill also removes the requirement that earnings from on-the-job training be considered earned income for purposes of determining SNAP eligibility.</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2974 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 21, 2025 Mr. Espaillat (for himself, Mr. Bresnahan , Ms. Adams , Mr. Miller of Ohio , and Mr. Bacon ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to exempt workforce training dollars as income for supplemental nutrition assistance program beneficiaries.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Training and Nutrition Stability Act . 2. Amendment to the supplemental nutrition assistance program Section 5 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2014 ) is amended by striking subsection (l). 3. Exclusion for income from employment and training program Section 5(d) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2014(d) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (18) by striking and at the end, (2) in paragraph (19) by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and , and (3) by adding at the end the following: (20) Income a household member receives from allowances, earning, and payments to household members participating in any program defined in section 6(o)(1), any program established under section 6(d)(4), any vocational rehabilitation program established and defined under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and any refugee employment program established and defined under section 412(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. .