SNAP Study Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4939 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4939

 To require the Secretary of Agriculture to submit an annual report to 
 Congress on the state of food security and diet quality in the United 
 States, including the impact of changes to the supplemental nutrition 
 assistance program (SNAP), and to provide policy recommendations for 
improving nutrition outcomes for both participants and nonparticipants.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 8, 2025

   Mr. Self introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of Agriculture to submit an annual report to 
 Congress on the state of food security and diet quality in the United 
 States, including the impact of changes to the supplemental nutrition 
 assistance program (SNAP), and to provide policy recommendations for 
improving nutrition outcomes for both participants and nonparticipants.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``SNAP Study Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. FOOD SECURITY AND DIET QUALITY REPORT.

    The Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), as 
amended by section 4125, is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 32. FOOD SECURITY AND DIET QUALITY REPORT.

    ``(a) In General.--Not later than 1 year after the effective date 
of this section, and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to 
the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate and 
the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives a report 
on food security and diet quality in the United States.
    ``(b) Contents.--The report required to be submitted under 
subsection (a) shall include--
            ``(1) an analysis of the food security and diet quality of 
        participants and nonparticipants in the supplemental nutrition 
        assistance program;
            ``(2)(A) a summary of legislative and Executive branch 
        changes made to the supplemental nutrition assistance program 
        in the year covered by the report that are intended to improve 
        food security and diet quality; and
            ``(B) an analysis of the impact and effectiveness of those 
        changes on food security and diet quality; and
            ``(3) recommendations to the Congress on how to improve 
        food security and diet quality for participants and 
        nonparticipants in the supplemental nutrition assistance 
        program.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendment made by this Act shall take effect 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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