Restaurant Meals Program Reform Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill expands and refines the SNAP restaurant meals program to include certain prepared-food sections in retail food stores, while adding meal standards, coding rules, a spousal exclusion, and public reporting.
Who Benefits and How
Some SNAP households and qualifying grocery-style retailers could gain more prepared-meal redemption options under the restaurant meals program.
Who Bears the Burden and How
State agencies and retailers would need to update EBT coding and comply with the new eligibility and reporting rules, and spouses of eligible individuals would remain excluded.
Key Provisions
- Allows certain prepared-food retail stores to participate in the restaurant meals program.
- Limits eligible meals to immediate-consumption items with a fruit or vegetable and a protein.
- Requires EBT coding updates and public reporting on participating establishments and program costs.
- Excludes spouses of eligible individuals from participation.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill expands and refines the SNAP restaurant meals program to include certain prepared-food sections in retail food stores, while adding meal standards, coding rules, a spousal exclusion, and public reporting.
Key Policy Areas
Agriculture, Healthcare
Primary Purpose
This bill expands and refines the SNAP restaurant meals program to include certain prepared-food sections in retail food stores, while adding meal standards, coding rules, a spousal exclusion, and public reporting.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Eligible SNAP households using the restaurant meals program
- Qualifying retail food stores with prepared-food sections
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- State agencies and retailers required to implement the updated restaurant meals program rules
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
Mr. Messmer introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Qualifying retail food stores with prepared-food sections that may participate in the restaurant meals program
Eligible SNAP households gaining additional prepared-meal redemption options
State agencies and retailers updating EBT coding and complying with the revised program rules
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
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