HR 3442
SNAP Administrator Retention Act of 2025
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Bill overview
This bill aims to improve staffing and retention within state agencies administering the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). It requires the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to pay 100% of administrative personnel costs for these agencies, up from the current 50% share. The bill also mandates that state SNAP agency administrators be paid at least as much as their federal counterparts and ensures wage standards are updated annually to match federal pay rates.
Key provisions
- FNS will pay 100% of SNAP administrative personnel costs to state agencies.
- State SNAP agency administrators must be paid at least the same as federal employees.
- Wage standards for state agency administrators must be at least equal to the General Schedule (GS) pay rate for federal employees.
- Wage standards must be updated annually to reflect increases in the GS pay rate.
- Funds must supplement, not supplant, existing non-federal administrative funds.
- Funds must be used for existing or additional full-time positions above those held in FY2024.
- State agencies must submit personnel wage plans for FNS approval.
- The bill establishes a 1-year timeframe for implementing these changes.
Who is affected
- State agencies administering the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
- SNAP recipients
- The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
- Federal employees (as a benchmark for state administrator pay)
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Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] Norton
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R. 3442
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to increase the Federal cost share for supplemental nutrition assistance program administration to improve staffing and retention, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the SNAP Administrator Retention Act of 2025
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Section 16 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2025) is amended—
subsection (k)and inserting
subsections (k) and (m); and
by adding at the end the following:
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the
SNAP Administrator Retention Act of 2025
, wages of State agency personnel administering the supplemental nutrition assistance program shall be—not less than the appropriate rate of pay that would be payable to Federal employees under subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code; and
updated annually by not less than any increase in that rate of pay, including locality adjustments.
On approval of a wage plan submitted by a State agency under paragraph (2), the Secretary shall pay to each State agency an amount equal to 100 percent of all administrative personnel costs incurred by the State agency in carrying out the supplemental nutrition assistance program, including all costs associated with—
processing, hiring, and training new employees in accordance with the standards described in section 11(e)(6)(B);
maintaining those personnel costs; and
complying with the wage standards described in subsection (l).
SNAP Administrator Retention Act of 2025
, a State agency shall submit to the Secretary for approval the personnel wage plans implemented by the State agency to carry out subsection (l), including the position titles, duties, wages, and appropriate rates of pay of employees.The Secretary shall make payments to a State agency under paragraph (1) only if the State agency uses the funds received—
to supplement, not supplant, non-Federal funds used for existing administrative personnel costs under subsection (a); and
for existing or additional full-time equivalent positions above the number of positions that were held in the State or sub-State area in fiscal year 2024.