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HR4158-119

Introduced

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make permanent the moratorium on SNAP benefit transaction fees.

119th Congress Introduced Jun 26, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make permanent the moratorium on SNAP benefit transaction fees., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting families, benefit recipients, nonprofits, and service providers. The main policy domain is Social Welfare, Agriculture, Trade.

Who Benefits and How

families, benefit recipients, nonprofits, and service providers may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, families, benefit recipients, nonprofits, and service providers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section HBCFB2C58667F48009ED29C4B09C437F9: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Fee-Free Benefit Transactions Act of 2025.
  • Section H9872C3F10C3B48EC82B47F3311C02053: 2. Prohibited fees Section 7(h)(13)(B) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2016(h)(13)(B)) is amended to read as follows: Neither a State, nor any...
  • Section HE197D5C3252C4A5FBF67526FCD36B05B: 3. Application of amendment The amendment made by section 2 shall be applied to supersede the provisions of title IV of division HH of the Consolidation...
  • Section HF0825576B93E441EB58E4254F98E0FD7: 4. Effective date This Act and the amendment made by this Act shall take effect October 1, 2025.

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make permanent the moratorium on SNAP benefit transaction fees., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting families, benefit recipients, nonprofits, and service providers.

Key Policy Areas

Social Welfare, Agriculture, Trade

Primary Purpose

This bill, To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make permanent the moratorium on SNAP benefit transaction fees., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting families, benefit recipients, nonprofits, and service providers.

Policy Domains

Social Welfare Agriculture Trade

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • families, benefit recipients, nonprofits, and service providers
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: ih
families, benefit recipients, nonprofits, and service providers:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • families, benefit recipients, nonprofits, and service providers
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: ih
federal implementing agencies:
families, benefit recipients, nonprofits, and service providers:

Sponsors

Shontel M. Brown

Shontel M. Brown

D-OH | Primary Sponsor

1 cosponsor

Legislative Progress

Introduced
Introduced Committee Passed
Jun 26, 2025

Ms. Brown (for herself and Mr. Wied) introduced the following …

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Social Welfare Agriculture Trade
Actor Mappings
"federal_implementing_agencies"
→ Federal agencies assigned duties by the bill

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