S 1202
Hot Foods Act of 2025
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Bill overview
The Hot Foods Act of 2025 expands the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to allow recipients to use their benefits to purchase hot foods and ready-to-eat food items. This change broadens the types of food eligible for SNAP purchases, aiming to provide more convenient and nutritious options for recipients. The bill modifies existing SNAP regulations to explicitly include hot foods and ready-to-consume items within the scope of eligible purchases. It also includes provisions regarding sales percentages for vendors offering these types of food.
Key provisions
- Allows SNAP benefits to be used for hot foods.
- Allows SNAP benefits to be used for hot food products ready for immediate consumption.
- Modifies SNAP regulations to include ‘hot foods’ and ‘hot food products ready for immediate consumption’.
- Requires vendors selling hot foods to limit 50% of their gross sales to these items.
- Expands the definition of ‘consumption’ under SNAP to include hot foods.
Who is affected
- SNAP recipients
- Food vendors
- Low-income individuals
- The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Notable changes
- Previously, SNAP benefits could not be used for hot foods or ready-to-eat items.
- The bill establishes a limit of 50% of vendor sales for hot foods and ready-to-eat items.
- The definition of ‘consumption’ under SNAP has been broadened.
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
S. 1202
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
A BILL
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to permit supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to be used to purchase additional types of food items.
This Act may be cited as the Hot Foods Act of 2025
.
Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012) is amended—
in subsection (k)(1), by striking consumption except alcoholic beverages, tobacco, hot foods or hot food products ready for immediate consumption other than those authorized pursuant to clauses (3), (4), (5), (7), (8), and (9) of this subsection
and inserting consumption, including hot foods or hot food products ready for immediate consumption and excluding alcoholic beverages, tobacco
;
in subsection (o)(1)—
and consumptionand inserting
or home or immediate consumption; and
in subparagraph (A)—
offersand inserting the following:
offers
in clause (i) (as so designated), by striking or
at the end and inserting and
; and
by adding at the end the following:
in subsection (q)(2)—
by striking include accessory
and inserting the following:
include—
accessory
in subparagraph (A) (as so designated), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and
; and
by adding at the end the following: